The article deals with financial and economic crisis, projected by American financial aristocracy to optimize global processes management. Here is the analysis of the way crisis effects global agenda. The article also describes the history of the US Federal Reserve creation and the US economic influence upon the world order. The authors declare that crisis reinforces US role in modern world policy and weakens national governments depending on US dollar incomes.

Generally, EU countries are not provided with sufficient amount of energy resources to satisfy an internal energy demand. According to this, such issues as country's energy security, usage of new energy sources, its economy and environmental consequences of irrational use of energy resources are becoming more acute. The article is devoted to various kinds of alternative energy sources, in particular, "green energy" and the issue of increasing use of renewable energy sources. The main goal of the publication is to analyze the energy policy of the EU countries, the expansion of renewable energy potential as the most energy-efficient sources.

This article examines features of Turkeys' relations with the European Union and the impact of these relations on the development of Turkish-Russian cooperation in various fields. Conducted in Turkey, the reforms necessary for EU accession, to a certain extent improve the domestic economic situation in the country and strengthen democratic reforms. This is useful not only for Turkey but also for countries who establishes close contacts with Turkey, including Russia.

The author analyzes the evolution of the Great Britain's approach to the integration processes in Europe, demonstrates the dual nature of it's policy as regards those processes and makes an attempt to reveal what lies at the basis of the UK's «European policy».

Despite of common processes of world democratization the military-civic relations gain urgent actuality. The article deals with the analysis of the role of armed forces as a specific factor in Eastern countries, where coup has taken place (Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Alger, Indonesia, Madagascar, Nigeria etc.).

The article considers Chinese policy of sending students to study in the US and the Great Britain. Chinese government and its educational system, exchange and cooperation with European countries and the US has made steady and smooth progress with expanding scale, diversifying forms, enriching content and improving quality. Chinese students, studying in the US, provide China's modernization, develop exchange and cooperation between the Chinese educational community and other parts of the world, promote education, culture, science and technology, and strengthen understanding and friendship among people. This policy provides valuable opportunities for young people from China and the United States to build ties for better understanding, so as to enhance friendship between the two nations.