http://www.politstudies.ru Journal Polis. Political Studies". No 5 2026. pulished 30.09.2026 ru-ru http://www.politstudies.ru/files/Image/rss_logo.jpg http://www.politstudies.ru http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6437 http://www.politstudies.ru/ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6441 http://www.politstudies.ru/ As a result of the expiration of the START Treaty on February 5, 2026, without an extension, Russia and the United States for the first time since the end of the cold war have dived into a legal vacuum – without agreed mutual restrictions on the most destructive weapons in history, which can destroy modern civilization within a few hours. The predictable mutual buildup of nuclear warheads, combined with Trump's announced “Golden Dome” space-based anti-missile defens... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6444 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The methodological apparatus of modern political science does not allow scholars to obtain answers to a number of significant questions, thus failing to provide an adequate understanding of the essence of ongoing political processes. The reason is that the Weberian sociological method, which lies at its core, focuses on analyzing the formal characteristics of political institutions, leaving their substantive dimensions outside its scope, particularly their ontological and value dimensions. Never... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6445 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article examines informal Islamic networks in contemporary Russia, which, according to the authors, play a key role in organizing the religious life of Muslims, often operating beyond formal structures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Western Siberia (Novy Urengoy, Surgut and Tomsk), the North Caucasus, and Georgia, the authors demonstrate how transregional and transnational Islamic networks form mosaic communities, address practical issues such as halal food p... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6446 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article examines the transformation of school history education in Western European countries, which is influenced by political and supranational factors. This framing appears particularly relevant amid the growing role of historical scholarship as a tool of political legitimation and self-identification amid mounting informational instability and intensifying debates around historical memory. The authors proceed from the assumption that the European Union deliberately employs the historical... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6447 http://www.politstudies.ru/ A certain theoretical perplexity has emerged in studies of post-Soviet polities. The concept of neopatrimonialism has proved, on the one hand, too capacious, and, on the other, insufficiently flexible to account for the variety of political orders that have emerged across the former Soviet space. The informality paradigm has yielded a number of fruitful observations, yet it has not produced a persuasive body of theoretical generalizations. Both approaches took shape in polemics with the theory o... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6450 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The combination of the state's deliberate attempts to regulate and construct social relations with the accompanying and often alternative forms of social actors' activity raises questions about the effectiveness of the methods used by the authorities to achieve their goals and meet the interests of society. At the same time, the desire of many governments to solve this dilemma through the use of mandatory regulation is reflected in the emphasis on the projective (as opposed to the public) nature... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6451 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The current transformational transition, during which the structure of the modern world order is fundamentally changing, requires conceptual rethinking. The development of new predictive models and promising strategies presupposes a critical rethinking of existing approaches to describing the dynamics of the world system, traditionally dualistic: either as a system of centers of power or as a system of polarities. This article argues a conditional nature of this “dualism” and... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6453 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article presents a multimodal analysis of the exhibits representing Russian regions at the exhibition “Russia” at VDNKh, held in 2023-2024 as part of Vladimir Putin's fifth presidential election campaign. By showcasing the achievements and positive experiences of the regions, this section of the exhibition provides rich material for a comparative analysis of approaches to constructing regional identities and representing them in external arenas. The content of the exhibi... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6455 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article focuses on the organization of postcolonial “worlds” seen as objects of competition between global and regional centers of power in a transforming world order. Francophonie, Ibero- America, and Lusophonie - heirs to continental Europe’s colonial empires - have developed institutional frameworks affecting their competitive positions, as have discourses concerning their imperial and colonial past. This influence is evaluated with regard both to the identit... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6456 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article presents a hypothesis about the causes of the ongoing erosion of the global order, which is characterized by increasing turbulence and escalating violence. This hypothesis is based on insights that explain the “Great Divergence” between China and Europe in the modern era. A synthesis of key concepts from J. Needham, E. Jones, K. Pomeranz, J. Goldstone, J. Mokyr, and others provides a convincing solution to the “Needham Question”: Why did China... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6457 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article analyzes the confrontation between the Armenian government led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) headed by Catholicos Karekin II in the period following the 2018 Velvet Revolution. The study employs event analysis, sociological survey data, and participant observation. According to the author, the government's campaign against the Church is driven by several factors: the persistence of revolutionary rather than reformist approaches; p... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300