Russia's ambivalence about an Indo-Pacific strategy

For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Ekaterina Koldunova, Associate Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, explains that "The economically vibrant Asia-Pacific region, home to Russia's key strategic partner China, represented the core geographical area where Russian foreign policy decision-makers naturally looked to as the alternative [to the West].

ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ МЕТОДІВ КЛАСТЕРНОГО АНАЛІЗУ ПРИ ДОСЛІДЖЕННІ КОМПОНЕНТ ВЕКТОРА ІНДУКЦІЇ ЗА ДАНИМИ ЯПОНСЬКИХ ГЕОМАГНІТНИХ ОБСЕРВАТОРІЙ

It has been developed the information technology of cluster analysis of the values of the components of the induction vectors for 4 observatories near to catastrophic Tohoku earthquake of 11.03.2011.Разработана информационная технология кластерного анализа значений векторов индукции на 4 обсерваториях поблизости от катастрофического землетрясения Тохоку 11.03.2011.Розроблено інформаційну технологію кластерного аналізу значеньвекторів індукції на 4 обсерваторіях поблизу від катастрофічного земле-трусу Тохоку 11.03.2011

World Regional Studies as a Research Framework and Academic Discipline

Dynamic development of international processes at the regional level, various trajectories of regionalization in Europe, Asia, Latin America and other parts of the world created a complex and multidimensional picture of the contemporary international relations. However Social Sciences and IR retained a distinct eurocentrism. This eurocentrism only partly meant that students of IR did not take into account non-European or non-Western realities. Thus, a German Scholar J. Vullers from German Institute of Global and Area Studies analyzing in 2014 three leading International Relations journals (International Organization, World Politics, European Journal of International Relations) diagnosed a serious geographic imbalance in the international studies, which meant a very limited number of articles based on the nonWestern empirical data.Even with such geographic imbalance in IR studies more important for preserving eurocentrism there was the absence of non-Western IR theories or IR theories originating from non-Western political context. The collective monograph edited by Barry Buzan and Amitav Acharya focused exactly on this problem. The title of the book was provocatively asking why there is no non-Western IR theory. Thus, the book in question provoked a lively academic debate on the topic. Russia was not covered in this book. Therefore, this very fact gives one some reasons to reflect on how Russian research in the field may face a double challenge of a changing international environment and an inappropriate level of its intellectual assessment. Against this background this article analyzes World Regional Studies, a research framework and discipline, which is rapidly developing in Russia and may to some extent contribute to a more correct understanding of the international processes

COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Comparative Development Studies

Discussions on the Russian World

Book Review: Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’. Seven Speeches on Russian World (in Russian) / Comp. by A.V. Shhipkov. Moscow: Vsemirnyj Russkij Narodnyj Sobor, 2015