... the sources: that is, to start working with students and young specialists in different scientific and technological fields, though employing a modern basis. In particular, we ought to teach what the role of the inventor and the creator is in modern society, outline what risks and difficulties await them on their thorny path from a new idea to its implementation. We need to remind them of Niccolo Machiavelli’s warnings that new ideas will not always be readily accepted by the public. And we need ...
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
The report attempts to compare Russia and China’s views on the current state of affairs in African and their prospects moving forward. Experts have tried to juxtapose the strategies pursued by the two countries and assess the opportunities for expanding Russia–China cooperation on the continent. The positions presented in this report reflect the different experiences of Russia and China in...
... development of a mass circulation press; second political parallelism; that is, the degree and nature of the links between the media and political parties or, more broadly, the extent to which the media system reflects the major political divisions in society; third, the development of journalistic professionalism; and fourth, the degree and nature of state intervention in the media system".
Drawing on the four dimensions,
Hallin and Mancini
summarize three modules from Western Europe and North ...
... guarantee that at a certain stage, Moscow will not witness the fate of Belgrade in 1999. Russia has the ability to asymmetrically contain the United States, even if the latter is superior.
2. Consistently build a state based on the rule of law, openness of society, and high management efficiency. It will be more difficult to shatter such a state from the outside, no matter how active propaganda, information warfare and intelligence operations are. Cleansing and excessive “verticalisation” will give ...
... allow us to demonstrate the Iranian statehood’s development potential and possible challenges to it.
Moral Choice: of Goals and Values
The normative environment consists of a set of basic values and priorities supported by the political elite and society. In this connection, Iranians' attitude to the authorities and their understanding of religious values, and their shared image of the future are worth a closer look.
Iran still has a significant
power distance
between the authorities and society....
... hopelessly out-dated. However, the state is also merely one of these institutions. Do the authors have confidence that the chain reaction of institutional disintegration will stop at the state level, and will not go further right up to the collapse of society as such? Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin and even Karl Marx themselves would not mind such a denationalisation of modern society, but are the risks inevitably associated with this process of deconstruction of the global society too high?
It has ...
The inability to differentiate the interests of governments and their respective citizens has been an underlying cause of many misconceptions
The mainstream media make frequent reference to the idea that the United States is viewed negatively by the majority of Russians. Similarly, we are accustomed to hearing that Russia – understood as the Russian authorities — is hostile to America. In both cases, we are dealing with purposely broad generalizations that are inherently misleading. It cannot be...
...
However, the flaws and failures that have brought Lebanon to its knees cannot all be referred to the so-called confessionalism as such. Corruption, cronyism, and indifference toward the common good, can be present in any kind of government system and society. As for Lebanon, it is the extremely poor conduct in the management of public affairs that must be held accountable for the lack of development of the country’s capacities, despite its enormous potential.
The regional disputes involving Lebanon ...
By pushing the Chinese elite from the global space, the Americans are diluting their influence over China
In relations between the United States and China, we see the next steps towards escalation. The key reasons are America’s criticism of the PRC’s policy towards Hong Kong, as well as Washington’s policy of applying intense pressure on Chinese telecommunications companies.
Ivan Timofeev:
US Administration v. China
On August 7 of this year, the US Treasury Department included 11 high-ranking...
... domestic politics, it could mean strengthening the security functions of the state and the relevant institutions. It appears, however, that such scenarios may be realized in the short term. They do not entail solutions to the underlying problems of modern society connected to justice and development.
Just like securitization is the flip side of the struggle for freedom,
developmentalization
is the middle name of the desire for justice. The demand for justice is ultimately a demand for all types of development: ...
