Vol 19, No 3 (2017)

The article is devoted to the NATO strategy and policy in the conflicts of “the Arab spring”. New doctrinal purposes of the military-political block under the conditions of transformation of the world politics system are subjected to analysis. The special focus is on the development of political crises and conflicts in Libya and Syria and approaches of the North Atlantic Alliance to their settlement. The conse-quences of the NATO actions for the states of the Arab world are analyzed.

The beginning of the XXI century was marked by a number of serious problems, including cancer, world hunger, environmental problems and increasing every year the problem of global terrorism, which poses a great threat to the security of the modern multipolar world. Uzbekistan today occupies a firm position in fight against terrorist threat. The principled position of Uzbekistan in the fight against terrorism is that “no country should exclude their participation in the fight against global terrorism, there must be no transit zones and "green corridors" for terrorist organizations”. The Central Asian region is one of the most vulnerable, because it is necessary to pay special attention to the strategy of the anti-terrorist security of the countries included in the structure of the Central Asian region. In this article, we consider the anti-terrorist policy of Uzbekistan in the framework of the regional anti-terrorist policy of the SCO.

The article analyzes international migration within the CIS and the organization of the con-temporary migration policy of the Russian Federation. The main reasons of the migration attractiveness of the Russian Federation to the population of the former Soviet republics are presented in the article along the data on migration of the CIS countries. The distribution of migrants by nationality from the countries of the CIS is shown. The General summary and comparative analysis of migration of population of the Rus-sian Federation for the period 2013-2014 are summed up. The authors analyzed different aspects of the mi-gration policy of the Russian Federation and contemporary changes in legislative documents on migration movements. The conclusions on the priorities of migration policy of the Russian Federation are made.

The article focuses on issues related to the analysis of the modern political communication management nature. The paper demonstrates the nature of the basic elements of communication management processes in the sphere of politics. The article also shows the transition from the classical subject-object model in the field of public relations management to a new subject-subject model of information and com-munication interaction at the horizontal level, in which the strongest influence on all stages of the man-agement process have values and meanings, which are products of communication relations. The study concluded that in contemporary information society communication basis of political management becomes crucial condition for the implementation of all management processes, defining the content and parameters of the key features of the functioning of the state, its stability and success.

The article presents the emergence of political participation in Thailand. To examine a po-litical participation in Thailand, it is necessary to describe its history of democracy, which brought from Europe. Because of the different culture, history, and structure of government, the democracy of Thailand is still not developed. Apart from the history of democracy, the article also defines the intention to make the election more open, fair and meaningful. Research methodologies were a comparative historical method and comparative political analysis to the relationship of the factors influencing the occurrence and movement of political participation in Thailand.

The article discusses the conceptualization and formation of the image of the future of Russia in domestic and foreign policy. The author emphasizes the high heuristic potential of the civiliza-tional approach and the theory of archetypes of C.G. Jung. The author shows that the important role in shap-ing the image of future Russia should play psycho-political analysis of socio-cultural and operational code of Russia that should be carried out by the Russian political expert community.

March 3, 2017 the Department of comparative politics, faculty of Humanities and social sciences held an international “Round-table” conference “The new US administration: perspectives for Russia”, which discussed issues related to the functioning of the new U.S. Administration after the election of Donald Trump.