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Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">14766</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ARTICLES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject></subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Unsettled Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space in the Analysis of the Western Research Centers</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Неурегулированные конфликты на постсоветском пространстве в анализе западных экспертно-аналитических центров</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kurylev</surname><given-names>Konstantine Petrovich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Курылев</surname><given-names>Константин Петрович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>kurylev_kp@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ngoyan</surname><given-names>Artem Levonovich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Нгоян</surname><given-names>Артем Левонович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>nago@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Palacios</surname><given-names>Eduardo Cabrera</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Паласиос</surname><given-names>Кабрера Эдуардо</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>epalacioscabrera@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Skudina</surname><given-names>Olga Vaycheslavovna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Скудина</surname><given-names>Ольга Вячеславовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>olga.skudina@me.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2016-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">International Conflicts: Quo Vadis?</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Международные конфликты: Quo Vadis?</issue-title><fpage>482</fpage><lpage>493</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2016-12-28"><day>28</day><month>12</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2016, Kurylev K.P., Ngoyan A.L., Palacios E.C., Skudina O.V.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2016, Курылев К.П., Нгоян А.Л., Паласиос К.Э., Скудина О.В.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kurylev K.P., Ngoyan A.L., Palacios E.C., Skudina O.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Курылев К.П., Нгоян А.Л., Паласиос К.Э., Скудина О.В.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/14766">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/14766</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article considers the ideas of some leading western expert analytical centers about the problems of the conflicts development on the CIS space. The subject of research is the positions of the “think tanks” of the USA, Great Britain, Germany and France. Among a large number of the regional conflicts in the CIS the authors focused attention on the conflicts in the East of Ukraine, in Transnistria and in the Nagorno-Karabakh. Such selection is explained by the acute character and impact of these conflicts on the interests of Russia and the other leading states and the international organizations. The theoretical and methodological background of the article consists of the approaches and methods, which are used by the modern political science for the comprehensive analysis of the architecture and structure of the international relations, the mechanism of formation and functioning of the certain states’ foreign policy. The research has the cross-disciplinary character and is made at the intersection of such disciplines as history, political science, conflictology and the international relations. The authors reveal positions of the western “think tanks” on the genesis, evolution and the potential settlement of the armed conflicts in the CIS region. The article highlights the estimates of the western “think tanks” of the reasons of the “frozen” conflicts on the post-USSR space, of the Russian Federation’s role and the participation of external actors (the EU and the USA) in their settlement. Giving the research of the approaches of the western expert analytical centers, the authors reach a conclusion about a set course of the western political scientists’ estimates. It reflects in assignment of a unilateral responsibility for a conflict inhaling or its unleashing on Russia, or on the party of a conflict, closed to the official Moscow. It is particularly obvious in the Ukrainian crisis: the Western countries consider our state as its main initiator. According to the authors, such a narrow-mindedness is coused not by the incompetence of the experts of the “think tanks”, but by the political course and tasks of the power structures of those countries. The western “think tanks”, especially in the USA, are capable to participate directly or indirectly in the political decision-making process. This points to the fact of the political prejudice of the activity of these “think tanks”.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Статья посвящена рассмотрению представлений ряда ведущих западных экспертно-аналитических центров по проблемам развития конфликтов на пространстве СНГ. Изучаются позиции «фабрик мысли» США, Великобритании, ФРГ и Франции. Из большого числа региональных конфликтов в СНГ авторы акцентируют внимание на конфликтах на Востоке Украины, в Приднестровье и в Нагорном Карабахе. Подобный выбор связан с тем, что эти конфликты являются наиболее острыми и затрагивают интересы не только России, но и других доминантных государств и международных организаций. Авторы статьи раскрывают позиции западных think tanks относительно генезиса и эволюции вооруженных конфликтов в регионе СНГ, а также перспектив их урегулирования. В статье освещаются оценки западных «фабрик мысли» причин «замороженности» конфликтов на пространстве бывшего СССР, даны их мнения о роли Российской Федерации в процессах урегулирования, а также участия внешних акторов (ЕС и США). С учетом того, что в статье презентуются подходы западных экспертно-аналитических центров, авторы приходят к выводу об определенной заданности оценок западными политологами и международниками. Это выражается в том, что в большинстве случаев ответственность за затяжной характер разрешения конфликта, а порой и за его развязывание возлагается на российскую сторону. Это особенно очевидно в случае с кризисом на Украине, главным виновником которого на Западе считается Россия. Подобная однобокость суждений является, как полагают авторы статьи, не свидетельством некомпетентности экспертов think tanks, а теми задачами, которые ставятся перед ними властными структурами тех или иных стран.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>think tanks</kwd><kwd>regional security</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>the frozen conflicts</kwd><kwd>the Ukrainian crisis</kwd><kwd>the Transnistrian conflict</kwd><kwd>the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd><kwd>EU</kwd><kwd>USA</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>«фабрики мысли»</kwd><kwd>региональная безопасность</kwd><kwd>замороженные конфликты</kwd><kwd>украинский кризис</kwd><kwd>приднестровский конфликт</kwd><kwd>нагорно-карабахский конфликт</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Abelson, D.E. (2002). Do think tanks matter? 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