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В настоящей статье автор исследует проблематику проведения международно-политического анализа, подробно останавливается на основных правилах организации работы исследователя-международника, а также критериях достоверности аналитических выводов. Автор также предлагает классификацию аналитических работ, оценивает условия, в которых работают эксперты в настоящее время, анализирует ключевые проблемы, возникающие при выборке эмпирического материала, включая определение ценности источниковой базы, выборе метода анализа и его проведении вплоть до формулировки выводов. В статье даны рабочие советы, как поступать в служебных обстоятельствах и находить нестандартные решения в сложных ситуациях. ; The article is devoted to a problem of political analysis in the field of international relations. The author discusses the key rules, standards and requirements of correct political research as well as basic criteria of analytical correctness. The author formulates typology of analytical papers, assesses the state of environment and working conditions for today's experts, analysis key problems and dificulties at the stage of empirical data selection (including verification of information sources), while choosing analytical methods and formulating conclusions. The article gives advice for experts, how to organize research, deal with difficulties and find non-standard solutions

Children are our future and in their own time bear the responsibility to develop their own world. To enable them doing so, they should not be forced to work to earn a living or support their family. Children should be allowed to grow in the safety of a home, at school and at playgrounds. In this paper the author will explore children problems related economic exploitations, what policies are developed by the municipal government of Padang to protect children from economic exploitations and what are the obstacles in implementing these policies. One of the finding is that the Social and Manpower Service and the Family Planning, Women and Community Empowerment Board of the Padang municipal government develops training programs aiming to give exploited children practical skills in helping them to cope. Factors influencing economic exploitation of children are numerous and complex: lack of education, lessening of people's adherence to religious norms, societal environment, shift in cultural values, economic problems, etc. Based on the above the author suggests that the municipal government should take cognizance of these factors when attempting to deal with the problem. Keywords: child, exploitation, economy, protection

The author reviews Ecuador's foreign policy towards Colombia, which is considered as a deficient one. This article analyzes such issues as the absence of an elementary domestic consensus, the precarious coordination between civil and military officials, the weak links between domestic policies and foreign policy, and the lack of a specific agenda towards Colombia. The author recommends developing a foreign policy based on a well-established agenda, which should give priority to domestic goals. ; El autor realiza una revisión de las que considera han sido las deficiencias de la política exterior ecuatoriana hacia Colombia. La carencia de consensos básicos, la escasa coordinación civil-militar, la falta de participación ciudadana, la débil vinculación entre política externa e interna y la usencia de una agenda específica para Colombia, son algunos de los aspectos analizados por Ponce, quien finalmente plantea algunos de los elementos que deberían fundamentar la elaboración de una política exterior de Ecuador hacia Colombia, destacando la elaboración de una agenda clara de política exterior que priorice los objetivos nacionales internos.

An innocent young girl of seventeen, named Rizana Nafeek, was mercilessly executed in Saudi Arabia on charges of having killed a baby boy. Rizana Nafeek's name has become synonymous with migrant women domestic worker's rights, miserable condition in homeland and inhumane treatment in foreign land. Her fatal fate drew worldwide denunciation and a deluge of sympathy globally – beyond nationality, race and religion. The loss of a cherished blameless life and the lack of respect for migrant women stirs the humanity of the author, Kalaivathy Kaleel from Sri Lanka to vent his feelings through the short storyRizana, published inWords Without Bordersto voice against human trafficking, the failure of Sri Lankan government to secure the legal rights of its nationals abroad and against the general exploitation of women. The work has been translated to English by Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran in order to prevent another incident such as Rizana's to occur due to ignorance or inactivity. The author stresses the need to uphold the rights of any woman and ensure her safety in her own land as well as in foreign lands through the words of a character named Raazik.

The author considers the causes and features of the modern migration crisis in the Balkans. Attention is focused on the spontaneity, magnitude and the transitional nature of the contemporary waves of migration through the «Balkan corridor». The author concludes that the processes of the ethno-cultural and religious transformation of the European space are irreversible. The necessity of the reform of the European migration system and reformatting of the migration policies on the periphery of the European Union is underlined. ; Рассматриваются причины и особенности современного миграционного кризиса на Балканах. Внимание акцентируется на стихийности, масштабности и транзитном характере современных миграционных потоков через «балканский коридор». Делается вывод о необратимости этнокультурной и религиозной трансформации европейского пространства. Подчеркивается необходимость реформирования европейской миграционной системы и переформатирования миграционной политики на периферии Европейского Союза. ; Розглядаються причини й особливості сучасної міграційної кризи на Балканах. Увага акцентується на стихійності, масштабності та транзитному характерові сучасних міграційних потоків через «балканський коридор». Робиться висновок щодо незворотності етнокультурної та релігійної трансформації європейського простору. Підкреслюється необхідність реформування європейської міграційної системи та переформатування міграційної політики на периферії Європейського Союзу.

In order to approach the phenomena of responsibility, which is primarily liability and accountability, the author suggests a phenomenological clarification of the question: What is the precondition that makes a responsible life possible? This question should enable to give an answer to another one which is from high anthropological and even political relevance, namely: Is there a spot beyond or "outside" of any responsibility, i.e. can a human being live as "irresponsible" in the radical meaning of the word? The main thesis of the author is that there is a situation in which a human being has no means to act by making any "own" choices and thus everything in his life is imposed to him from the outside. This situation is the nativity and, more concretely, the time-space of the pre-natal human life. The aim of this paper is to analyze this situation by means of Husserl's phenomenological reduction as well as of the "counter reduction" of Michel Henry, and consequently to propose a new understanding of the responsibility problematics.

In order to approach the phenomena of responsibility, which is primarily liability and accountability, the author suggests a phenomenological clarification of the question: What is the precondition that makes a responsible life possible? This question should enable to give an answer to another one which is from high anthropological and even political relevance, namely: Is there a spot beyond or "outside" of any responsibility, i.e. can a human being live as "irresponsible" in the radical meaning of the word? The main thesis of the author is that there is a situation in which a human being has no means to act by making any "own" choices and thus everything in his life is imposed to him from the outside. This situation is the nativity and, more concretely, the time-space of the pre-natal human life. The aim of this paper is to analyze this situation by means of Husserl's phenomenological reduction as well as of the "counter reduction" of Michel Henry, and consequently to propose a new understanding of the responsibility problematics.

The author of the article analyzes the role of ideology in the modern world, underpinning his theses by historical examples, as well as posits the existence of the powerful Western ideology of "democracy", which is transforming into international ideocratic system infl uencing all facets of human life. Taking into consideration the theoretical approaches of prominent political scientists and sociologists, the author analyzes critically analyzes modern Western ideocracy and its interdependence with the age of information, globalization and postmodern cultural development. The article emphasizes the concept of normal state" and studies the role of Russia in these processes. ; В настоящей статье автор предлагает не только анализ роли идеологии в современном мире, проводя в подтверждение своих тезисов и исторические параллели, но и доказывает существование мощной идеологии «демократизма» Запада, которая стала превращаться в международную идеократическую систему, оказывая мощное влияние на все сферы человеческой жизни. Опираясь на подходы известных политологов и социологов, автор предлагает критический анализ современной западной идеократии, ее связи с веком информации и глобализации, развитием современной культуры. Особое внимание в статье также уделяется концепции «нормального государственного строя» и месту России в этих условиях.

In Slovo, a speech that Bozidar Grujovic (Teodor Filipovic) prepared for the
occasion of the foundation of the Governmental Council of Serbia
(Praviteljstvujusci sovjet srpski) in 1805, there is a definition of the
concept of ?statutory law? (zakon), according to which it has the following
characteristics: it is the expression of the popular will; it applies equally
to all citizens; it has rational and ethical characteristics because it
requires good deeds and prevents the bad ones. Such a concept of statutory
law significantly differs from the positivist conception, dominant in the
contemporary Serbian law. In this article, the author analyzes the legal and
political ideas of Bozidar Grujovic with the aim to show that his ideas
derive from the Roman law, and that they are received, indirectly, by
Rousseau and the ideologues of the French Revolution. Contrary to the
dominant theory in today?s science, the author believes that the direct model
for the ideas of Grujovic is not to be sought in the Declaration of the
Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, but in the Montagnard Constitution
and the Declaration of the Rights of 1793.

This paper deals with an anonymous editor as the real author of the Byzantine
agricultural encyclopedia Geoponika. The first part of the paper provides a
historical view of the origin and structure of Geoponika. Some of the authors
whose works preceded Geoponika are given. Editor included some of their texts
in the encyclopedia. The second part deals with the problem of determining
the authorship of some of the works included in Geoponika. Many of these
writers and their works are unknown to us today. Thanks to the editor?s work
on Geoponika their texts are at least partially preserved. Finally, in the
third part, the author pays attention to the text of the anonymous editor,
which was included in the Geoponika and represents his contribution to the
final designing of Geoponika. Through these texts, editor wanted to
familiarize the readers with his personal experiences in agriculture. There
are texts, comments, opinions, and conclusions throughout the entire
encyclopedia. In this way, the editor wanted to present his suggestions for
improving the agricultural production to those who are interested.

This article explores the "deadbeat dad" - fathers short on child support payments - as a contemporary figure originating in the Reagan era. It questions risks that were morally redirected in the 1980s, addressed towards particular groups of fathers and their relatives. After setting the question in relation to contemporary masculinity studies, the author brings "deadbeat dads" in line with the history of indebtedness and default. By scrutinizing how the claim to secure single mothers' alimony was integrated into a neoconservative project and the state's retreat from welfare in the United States, the paper analyses TV newscasts displaying the prosecution of delinquent fathers publicly. Adopting a discourse-analytical perspective, the author sketches out how the figure of the male breadwinner resonated in claims for economic and biological responsibility that were revived in the Reagan years. Exemplified by the context of the current case of Walter Scott, the contemporary history of child support debtors demonstrates how black fathers do not only face a higher risk of becoming victims of police violence, but also how ascribing default to African American fathers tied irresponsibility to black masculinity.

In this article, the author uses political violence, that is, the politically motivated physical damage human beings inflict on each other in any number of ways, as a lens to examine forms and patterns of extreme social conflict that emerged in the First Austrian Republic. In his analyses, the author uses quantitative and qualitative analyses of violence by different political groups to determine the impact of social and economic factors, among others, on this violence. After an introduction this contribution deals with the quantitative changes in political violence between 1918 and 1934 and the qualitative changes in the structure of political conflict. After that the forms and patterns of political violence that emerged in this connection are described and some explicit strategies of violence by individual political groupings are given. Finally, the social causes of political violence are examined and provide new explanation of the breakdown of Austrian democracy and the twofold civil war (in February and July) 1934. These events are not only a result of anti-democratic political decision making but also of the consequence of the rising waves of social conflicts and self-enforcing violence.

In a number of cases, integration of a large international region or an interstate union can only be promoted by political means. The policy of regional economic convergence prevails in many sectors. The single economic market and membership in economic and monetary unions give a new impetus to consolidation. The study aims to identify and explore the problems of political governance, which the Union State of Russia-Belarus faces due to their asymmetric and not completely compatible economies. The author analyzes the process of interstate convergence, considering it as an essential part of integration and explores a number of specific characteristics underlying the Russian-Belarusian economic integration. The author offers a set of criteria of convergence/not convergence of the states, describes the principles of their economic and political rapprochement and offers models of convergence as well as prerequisites for them. The article examines the principles that determine the participation of a country in international integration as well as prospects for the further development of the regional economic and political mechanisms, which are being formed

Access to public spaces played an important role in constructing and defining racial boundaries in the late nineteenth century. In 1883, San Antonio's Mexican American elites protested an order permanently barring them from using the dance pavilion in San Pedro Springs Park, resulting in the public censure of the park manager who gave the order and affirmations of Tejano elites' right to equal access to public spaces. The author analyzes this historical case to show the importance of the race-class intersection, specifically racialized class identities, as a resource in racial boundary shifting: the movement of racial boundaries across people. Public exchanges in the "San Pedro Park incident" either challenged or defended Mexican Americans' equal access to a white public space by drawing on competing racial narratives about their fitness for middle-class identity. The author argues that analyses of racial boundary shifting must give careful consideration to how social actors use understandings of class to expand or contract racial boundaries. Reproducing class identities that ensure continued economic domination over racial minorities is a central part of maintaining the racial order.

The notion of authorship is a core element in antipiracy campaigns accompanying an emerging copyright regime, worldwide. These campaigns are built on discourses that aim to 'problematize' the issues of 'legality' of content downloading practices, 'protection' for content creators and the alleged damage caused to creators' livelihood by piracy. Under these tensions, fandom both subverts such discourses, through sharing and production practices, and legitimizes industry's mythology of an 'original' author. However, how is the notion of authorship constructed in the cooperative spaces of fandom? The article explores the most popular fandom sites of A Song of Ice and Fire, the book series that inspires the TV-show Game of Thrones and argues that the notion of authorship is not one-dimensional, but rather consists of attributes that develop across three processes: community building, the creative and the industrial/production process. Here, fandom constructs a figure of the 'author' which, although more complex than the one presented by the industry in its copyright/anti-piracy campaigns, maintains the status quo of regulatory frameworks based on the idea of a 'primary' creator.