Polis. Political Studies  

No 2, 2019 

Topic: The Problem of Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Knowledge in Political Science  

CONTENT:

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Presenting this Issue (p. 6-7)

THEME OF THE ISSUE: THE PROBLEM OF INTEGRATING EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

Akhremenko A.S., Gorelskiy I.E., Melville A.Yu. How and Why Should We Measure and Compare State Capacity of Different Countries? Theoretical and Methodological Foundations (p. 8-23)

Rozov N.S., Pustovoit Yu.A., Filippov S.I., Tsygankov V.V. Revolutionary Waves of the Second Half of the 20th Century: an Interplay between Geopolitics, Violence, and Legitimacy (p. 24-40)

Golubev D.S. Probability Factors of Transborder Spread of Intrastate Armed Conflicts (p. 41-58)

Ivanov E.A., Isayev L.M. On Methods of Estimating Current Condition and of Forecasting Social Instability in Central Asia (p. 59-78)

ORBIS TERRARUM

Kholodkovskii K.G. Freedom vs Security? Europe and Mass Immigration (p. 79-91)

Ryabchenko N.A., Malysheva O.P., Gnedash A.A. Presidential Campaign in Post-Truth Era: Innovative Digital Technologies of Political Content Management in Social Networks Politics (p. 92-106)

Korotaev A.V., Shishkina A.R., Baltach A.A. Relative Deprivation as a Factor of Socio-Political Destabilization: Towards the Quantitative Analysis of the Arab Spring (p. 107-122)

Antyukhova E.A. Education in the US “Soft Power” Policy (p. 123-136)

LABORATORY

Lushnikov D.A. Government-Sponsored Non-Governmental Organizations (GONGO): Genesis of the Problems, Interpretation and Functions (p. 137-148)

Melkumian K.S. Informal Structure in the Center of the Counter-Terrorism Financing Regime: Effectiveness Issues (p. 149-160)

FEEDBACK

Pavlova E.B., Romanova T.A. Debates in International Relations Theory: Rethinking Interdisciplinarity (p. 161-172)

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

Zarubina N.N., Noskova A.V. Images of Russia: Reflecting on the Eras of Change (p. 173-183)

Shaklein V.V. Does Washington Have Any Real Strategy Towards Russia? (Thoughts on the Monograph “Russia and the United States in the Evolving World Order”) (p. 184-191)