... but also because of changes to the key factors allowing nations to have an impact on world policies, what comes to the fore and becomes aligned with military and political weight and economic resources is soft power: achievements in culture and arts, sciences, technologies, education, and more
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Soft power is a state’s ability to win others over, ensuring support for their agendas in international relations by demonstrating their cultural and moral values, their policies’ appeal, ...
Interview with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at New York University
Interview
Words can be interpreted in many ways, but mathematical formulas do not allow for such ambiguity. Rigorous application of mathematics in the study of politics brings clarity and weight to research. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at New York University, built a computer model based on mathematical algorithms that can predict the outcome of complex negotiations and potentially coercive situations...
Next April, RIAC is to hold in Moscow the second onsite seminar within the Global Science program intended to provide 19 young scholars with academic writing basics under the guidance of Natalie Reid, an English-language instructor.
Advancement of Russian scientific achievements abroad and improvement of positions of Russian universities ...
... Sometimes you need to have teams of researchers who are good at different methods to work together on the same problem. Evan Lieberman from Princeton University has a good article (http://www.princeton.edu/~esl/Lieberman%20Nested.pdf) in American Political Science Review about mixed-method research.
What should the researcher pay attention to when interpreting qualitative data?
Well, the standard questions are: who said what to whom with what purpose? So, the WHO challenge is to figure out who said something,...
The Russian Academy of Sciences should die a natural death
Interview
Loren R. Graham
enjoys talking about the reform of Russia’s educational system, after all, it is a subject he has been studying for over 50 years. MIT professor and scholar at the Russian Studies Center ...
"Submit what you consider to be your very best work"
Foreign opinion
These are two special interviews for the Russian International Affairs Council with John Ishiyama and Steven Forde, editors of the
American Political Science Review
, the most prestigious research journal in political science.
In these interviews Mr. Ishiyama and Mr. Forde discuss the requirements for submitted materials, the main reasons for non-acceptance of materials, and give advice on how to write ...
... individual researchers, organizations and countries.
Publications by Russian scientists in international journals: a lot or a little?
The preparation of the
Presidential Decree
“On measures to implement the state policy in the field of education and science” (May 2012) () relied on this logic. Among other things, the Decree set the task of ensuring the achievement of the following indicators: education – at least five Russian universities should make it in the top one hundred world’s ...
... Mason University, I had already published two books with a university press and several--I forget how many-- journal articles, so I had already over fulfilled my quota. I was thus able to go up for promotion and tenure in my fourth year.)
www.thebiosciences.com
Getting to this many publications by one’s sixth year may sound like a lot, but it really is not. Assistant Professors begin their first year with a Ph.D. dissertation already or (more rarely any more) almost completed. The dissertation ...
Russian researchers in Western scientific journals
The idea that Russian social sciences (in particular, political science and international relations) should be more open to the international community long ago lost its novelty factor. The most important, if not the main, measurement of such openness are publications by Russian ...
