PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

• Presenting this Issue

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
• 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
• Golubev D.S. Probability Factors of Transborder Spread of Intrastate Armed Conflicts
• Ivanov E.A., Isayev L.M. On Methods of Estimating Current Condition and of Forecasting Social Instability in Central Asia
• ORBIS TERRARUM
• Kholodkovskii K.G. Freedom vs Security? Europe and Mass Immigration
• 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
• 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
• Antyukhova E.A. Education in the US “Soft Power” Policy

LABORATORY

• Lushnikov D.A. Government-Sponsored Non-Governmental Organizations (GONGO): Genesis of the Problems, Interpretation and Functions
• Melkumian K.S. Informal Structure in the Center of the Counter-Terrorism Financing Regime: Effectiveness Issues

FEEDBACK

• Pavlova E.B., Romanova T.A. Debates in International Relations Theory: Rethinking Interdisciplinarity

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

• Zarubina N.N., Noskova A.V. Images of Russia: Reflecting on the Eras of Change
• 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”)