Challenges and Prospects of Global Migrations

   Migration policy is becoming increasingly important in a globalizing world. People are enabled to travel fast and at a relatively low cost now. This breeds a new world-view. A new labour market is emerging, the changes in labour migration routs affect all the countries in the world.
Keywords: migration; emigration; immigration; globalization; labour migration; transnational corporations.

Outer Space Through The Prism of International Law

   International space law is now undergoing a dynamic upgrade. Due to booming economic engagement and space tourism the legal framework for space activities is being reshaped. International space law is emerging. Private international space law is to provide a proper basis on which the countries and their agents can cooperate while exploiting economically the largest and the most promising in terms of investment field and thus ensure commercial space activities being regulated more effectively. The line along which international space law is evolving is being drawn nowadays.
Keywords: space, law, international space law, private space law, outer space, international law.

Call for a Grand Counter-Terrorism Strategy

   The USA and almost all the international community are at war against terrorism. However, military moves and ground campaign launched by America have eventuated in a failure. Terrorist acts still occur. Terrorist network are no longer coordinated from a single hub. Terrorist organization simply operate under Al-Quaeda brand and – more frequently now – even without it. Terrorist underworld has become anarchic.
Keywords: terrorism; fight against terrorism; the USA; Al-Quaeda; Afghanistan; HAMAS; Taliban..

The Rule of “Reverse Perspective” and the Spirit of International Order

   The author points out the fact that there is a quick development of not only technological sphere but also of liberal arts. There is a need of rethinking of its terms and development. What is more, the world is looking for new strategies in a qualitative sense.
Keywords: liberal arts; progress; development; civilizations; humanity; strategies; ideology.

Computer Simulation of IR: Latest Research and Accomplishments

   The article reviews the main uses of computer models in the analysis of international relations. The basic types of models and databases of international conflicts analysis, as well as of the balance of powers and international futures are described. The examples of the use of quantitative models for preparation and implementation of international legal agreements are given as well as a brief description of main analytical techniques used in processing of data in computer modeling. Also the article provides an overview on application of IR analysis models in the Soviet Union and in modern Russia.
Keywords: computer simulations; formal models; quantitative analysis; anticrisis systems; command and control center; databases; models of international conflict; balance of power; international legal agreements; Markov chain; Monte Carlo method; game theory.

Definition and Fortunes of Knowledge-Based Economy

   Developing on the principles of classical economics, society was faced with new trends of economic development. More frequent crises, in tracing have shown some inconsistency of the principles of classical economic theory and led to the need for government intervention in the further development of society.
Keywords: post-industrial society; knowledge-based economy; the welfare state; factors of production, information.

Politics of Global Food Supplies

   The paper is devoted to the close scrutiny of modern dynamics of food manufacture and consumption in the global scale. Key tools and the purposes of the food policy of both certain countries and international organizations are analyzed. The statistical data and particular cases given in the paper illustrate growing influence of «the food factor» on shaping the trends of economic and political development of the regions throughout the world.
Keywords: demography; food; agricultural production; global food export and import operations; dynamics of food prices; food prices management tools; food policy; «food wars», food security.

National Issues in Russian Politics

International Relations in East Asia: A Geopolitical Approach

   The article analyses geopolitical situation in Greater East Asia in the context of changing power balance in the region in China's favor. On conditions of more and more increased pressure from main actors Southeast Asia is transforming into peculiar «battlefield», which outcome will mainly determine the future of this entire region.
Keywords: East Asia; the USA; China; Russia; ASEAN; Vietnam, South China Sea, regional security system, regional controlled destabilization.

Integration On a Par with a Conflict?

   The author deals with the complex of unresolved intergovernmental territorial conflicts in the Southeast Asia. There are still major political differences and disputes between regional powers despite the fact that they are all party to an integration grouping ASEAN. At the same time the disagreements between them influence not only their bilateral relations but the whole regional system and pose a threat to integration. Limitation of ASEAN as a subject of international relations is a disadvantageous factor for Russia.
Keywords: ASEAN; integration; Southeast Asia; international disputes.

Cycles in Russian-American security

DISCUSSION

Genesis of Arab revolutions

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Reviews

Afghan Politics In Retrospect
Бойко В.С. Власть и оппозиция в Афганистане: особенности политической борьбы в 1919-1953 гг. Москва-Барнаул, 2010. 392 с.

American experience: What is In It?
Согрин В.В. Исторический опыт США. М.: «Наука», 2010. 581 с.

One World – Two Systems
Halper S. The Beijing Consensus. How China’s authoritarian model will dominate the twenty-first century. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 296 p.

The USA, Brazil and the Upcoming World Order
Jorge I. Dominguez, Rafael Fernandez de Castro. Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations. Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century? New York: Routledge. 2010. 252 p.

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