No 4 (2011)

This article analyses the system of higher education in China at the current stage of its reform (1999-2010) to show the capacity of the educational sphere to reinforce the regime stability. The author highlights the forces of deterrence and inclusion in the state's strategy of managing students, and concludes on the balance of these two forces and their influence on the socio-political environment of educated youth.

The author sequentially defends in his publications the necessity to develop national humanities and political sciences, in particular to introduce the authentic category apparatus, to fill it with new content, to enrich what is already done but not to be satisfied with accepting western elaborations. S.G. Il'yinskaya offers to complement existing classification of state regimes with different types of contemporary social system. The division into society of values (procedural, regulated largely by law system methods) and society of an aim (mobilized, regulated largely by voluntarism methods) is developed. The principal idea of the article: we are not the worst and not the best, we are other, and there is no sense to refuse an own identity, not critically changing Russian reality using western patterns since on that way we are doomed to an eternal stamp of underdevelopment. The project of the future is understood by the author as a self-sufficient society of sense that is able to establish new aims, create new values. The main purpose that should be put today by civil society in Russia is to save Russian history.

The article is devoted to contents of the Russian federalism, its problems and contradictions. The author analyses complex interrelationships between the centre and regions and studies contradictions between constitutional norms in guaranteeing sovereignty of the state and real content in fulfilling the status of state.

This article analyzes current trends in the development of relations between government and business in Russia's regions. It also reviews current trends in relations between business and government in the Russian regions, changes of priorities and formats of potential interactions.

The article is dedicated to analysis and comparison of arrangement and socio-political function of democratic and republican parties of the USA. The main stress is made on ideological vectors of both parties and also on the role of geographical position and interests of the USA population which influence forming of the political platforms of the parties. The main goal of the article is to demonstrate the growth of polarization of American society closely associated with the growth of parties' emphasis on target audience and differences in financial policy.

The article mentions peculiarities and prospects of developing of national security of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The article is dedicated to critically important informational and ideological aspects of Russia's foreign policy. The goal is to revise and specify the notion soft power in the context of rapidly changing space of global politics. During the last years international isolation of Russia, including informational and ideological sphere is increasing. The way to overcome this negative trend is modernization of foreign policy strategy on the basis of updating of operational tools and ideological accents. It's becoming obvious that the real foreign policy success in the global world system is achieved by the use of soft power. The author tries to specify and conceptualize the phenomenon of Russia's soft power as a purposeful external ideology facing the urgent need of updating.