http://www.politstudies.ru Journal Polis. Political Studies". No 2 2026. pulished 25.03.2026 ru-ru http://www.politstudies.ru/files/Image/rss_logo.jpg http://www.politstudies.ru http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6373 http://www.politstudies.ru/ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6374 http://www.politstudies.ru/ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6376 http://www.politstudies.ru/ In this second article devoted to the topic, the author considers international system development scenarios based on a sustainable consensus among major actors on fundamental political matters. Depending on the concurrent trends in global economic relations, this consensus may result by 2050 in two main scenarios – “global government” or “summer” of the system (deep and comprehensive global economic integration) and “mature multipolari... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6378 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article examines manifestations of civic engagement among Russian youth in the online environment. To address the research objective – identifying the prevalence of different types of digital citizenship among young people in Russia and their relationship to subjective assessments and objective characteristics – the study draws on the approaches of S. Hoffmann, G. Almond, and S. Verba, which broaden the understanding of citizenship and its links to state traditions. Citiz... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6379 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article presents a study of the multimodal discourse of the digital social platform TikTok in the context of a military-political conflict. TikTok is a popular digital social platform designed for sharing short videos, primarily aimed at a youth audience. The study was based on M. Sherif’s concept of intergroup interaction and the concept of the “rallying effect”, according to which conflict interaction contributes to group cohesion and support for the group lea... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6380 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article reports the findings of a study conducted within the project “The Southern Vector of National Security in the Context of Geopolitical and Climatic Challenges”. The study seeks to identify the factors that most strongly shape the degree of regional consolidation in the North Caucasian Federal District during the special military operation. The research draws on a combination of methods: content analysis of regional media coverage of patriotic practices; discourse a... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6381 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article attempts to understand the phenomenon of the Russian Metaverse – a multifaceted digital space shaped by global digitalization trends and the country’s unique sociocultural characteristics. Drawing on the theoretical approaches of M. Castells, Z. Bauman, J. Urry and M. Ball, we explore the ontological foundations, social topology, and the specific borders and inhabitants of this virtual entity. The article seeks to demonstrate that the space known as the Russian M... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6383 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This article presents the authors’ interpretation of the Syrian crisis as a critical juncture that opened the way for testing alternative institutional arrangements. The main objective is to assess the prospects of Syrian statehood and its possible future forms. Conceptually, Syria is analyzed as a network of spatialfunctional nodes—the core, semi-cores, intermediate, and deep peripheries—connected through three types of interaction channels: military-bureaucratic, ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6387 http://www.politstudies.ru/ Russia’s official representation of the EU has become highly metaphorical since 2022. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how metaphors explained fundamental changes in Moscow’s political course towards the EU. Theoretically the research is based on J. Charteris-Black’s critical metaphor analysis. Empirics consists of messages in the official telegram channel of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the EU from March 2022 through June 2025. The a... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6388 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article seeks to demonstrate the significance of the scientific category of “topogenesis” for the methodology of political regional studies and conflictological analysis of ethnopolitical processes in modern society. The theoretical framework for analyzing the subregional ethnopolitical situation in the South of Russia is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates elements of political conflictology, geopolitics and political geography. Particular emphasi... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6389 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article is devoted to critically overviewing contemporary comparative concepts of socioeconomic development that have taken shape within the Western-centred academic and policyexpert discourse. At the core of the analysis is the notion of the “leadership bias”, which is used to describe a situation in which the criteria of “success” and the very idea of development in non-Western and developing societies are constructed from the standpoint of the histo... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6385 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article is devoted to the study of twelve federations, that Russian and foreign scholars commonly classify as ethnic federations – Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Spain, Canada, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Switzerland, Ethiopia. The main research task was to identify the essential features of the classical ethnic federation model and, on this basis, to distinguish it from the so-called atypical ethnofederations. The first part of the article critically exami... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6386 http://www.politstudies.ru/ The article examines the influence of the Byzantine political tradition on the formation of state views of classic Eurasianists. The paper analyzes how the concept of the “symphony of powers”, formulated in the Byzantine Empire, was transformed into the Eurasian doctrine of the state as an organic unity. The methodological basis of the research is an interdisciplinary approach combining methods of political philosophy, history of political doctrines, cultural studies, and her... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300 http://www.politstudies.ru/en/article/6391 http://www.politstudies.ru/ This paper is a critical response to the book by A. Reshetnikov “Chasing Greatness. On Russia’s Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millenium” (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024), which was published in Russian translation (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2024). The author highlights the proposal to distinguish four modes of great-power discourse as the most productive idea of this book: absolute, theatrical, civilizational, and internation... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:00:00 +0300