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The research is devoted to the study of the influence of the transformation of civilizational determinants on the processes of formation of the political and administrative elite of modern Russia. Through the prism of geopolitical analysis, the authors state that the current phase of globalization is undergoing deep systemic and structural crises, causing changes in the factors shaping the contours of modern civilizations. These factors are the determinants of civilizational development, the transformation of which is observed in several main areas. The authors believe that the civilizational approach to the analysis of global processes better reflects the real picture of the formation of a multipolar world and civilizations than the idealistic one, and also helps to fix and understand the metamorphoses in the generation and behavior of political elites. Thus, Russia's conservative turn towards positioning itself as a local civilization leads to noticeable changes in the process of elitogenesis, becoming nationally oriented, centralized and ideologized. Consequently, the authors conclude that civilizational factors in the near future will determine the appearance of the elite groups of the Russian state-civilization.

The concept of civilization is intrinsic to the English School's understanding of international society. At the same time, engagement with discourses of civilization has been an important site of contestation within the English School, with quite different narratives of the evolution, structures and dynamics of international society being articulated. I argue that deeper analysis of how different waves of English School scholars engage with discourses of civilization provides a valuable pathway for mapping the evolution of English School thought and its understanding of the structure and dynamics of international society. Discourse analysis, a method firmly embedded in interpretivist approaches, can provide us with a valuable approach to unravel the complexities of English School thinking about civilization. Applying discourse analysis to these bodies of work allows us to explore nodal points within English School debates, the layering of particular texts, and how scholars engage with strategies of juxtapositioning and counternarrative in order to reveal how subjects are positioned in hierarchies of authority and reveal previously subjugated voices in their interpretations of the constitution and evolution of international society.

Abstract: The article discusses the trend of securitization of the political elite as a reaction to strengthening of coercive influence upon these elites in terms of consolidation and strengthening of confrontation between different civilizations. The authors argue that the main object of the coercive influence in world politics, which ensures stable control of regime change and a managed transit is the political elite rather than civil society. The assumption then is that the main object of the security and the securitization in world politics is to be political elite. Securitization of the political elite can be seen as a necessary condition for ensuring the sovereignty at the level of local human civilization. The conclusion of this paper is, first, the assessment of the political elite as the main object of securitization in a clash of civilizations. Secondly, the removal of contradictions between the securitization of political elites and democracy at the scale of human civilizations; third, underlining the need to take into account the vital importance of the political elite in the strategic planning and development of long-term forecasting of international relations development.

В данной статье тезис о том, что не может быть экономической науки без политического/идеологического содержания, применительно к либерально ориентированному направлению экономической мысли проиллюстрирован на примере развития российской национальной инновационной системы в контексте европейского пространства исследований. Автор утверждает, что конфликты интересов домохозяйств (населения), государства и предприятий чаще всего обусловлены различиями в парадигмах технологической цивилизации, традиционного уклада, формирующейся экотехнологической цивилизации и зарождающейся биологической цивилизации. Решение может быть найдено посредством формирования основ экотехнократической цивилизации, прежде всего методологических, с использованием лучших наработок методологии индивидуализма, сопутствующих и альтернативных концепций. ; The paper presents an illustration of the thesis that economic science cannot exist without the political/ideological background, with reference to liberally focused direction of economic thought an example of the development of the Russian national innovative system in a context of the European research space. The author asserts that conflicts of interests between the households, state and enterprises are often caused by distinctions in the paradigms of technological civilization, tradition, shaping ecotechnological civilization and arising biological civilization. The solution can be found by developing the bases for ecotechnological civilization, first of all methodological foundations, using methodological individualism, accompanied by alternative concepts.

The harnessing of the themes of race, ethnic nationality, religious difference, & the menace of "otherness" to the purposes of empire is argued to have found important echoes in the contemporary political panorama of the "clash of civilizations" & theocratic Protestant evangelism in the US. The new imperialism is not a "clash of civilizations", but a conflict within civilizations that is an attempt to generate a global hegemonic project for the 21st century. The formidable new problem for US racial hegemony is the problem of diaspora in which the "clash of civilizations" is occurring no less in Washington than in the Middle East! The new imperialism has made a definite turn towards militarism & a tendency towards a ferocious anti-statism. The Bush regime is concluded to be carrying out a desperate effort to preserve a moribund social order both globally and nationally that is based largely on military superiority, & is dependent on a dying form of white racial nationalism. The counterhegemonic project has at its core, the principle of participatory democracy, & the great resource of the vast support of millions all around the world. References. J. Harwell

This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.

Gender, innocence, and civilization -- Martial piety in the medieval and chivalric codes of war -- Civilization and empire: Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius -- General orders 100, Union General Sherman's March to Atlanta, and the Sand Creek Massacre -- The 1899 Martens Clause and the 1949 IV Geneva Convention -- The Algerian Civil War and the 1977 Protocols Additional -- The civil wars of Guatemala and El Salvador -- Responsibility

Psychotherapy sessions -- Creation so profound -- Beginning of the journey -- Art of child rearing -- Education, the best nurture -- Equal and unique -- Nature versus nurture -- Sex, a creation of God -- Marriage blessed in heaven -- Mentors and heroes -- Religion, the best appetizer -- God, we need you -- Body without a mind -- World without wars -- A new civilization -- The old civilizations -- The future giants -- Graying with grace -- The final goodbye