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Two books at the end of the Blair era—by Michael Barber and Julian Le Grand—offer to redeem the 'third way'. Both authors explore the political case for public sector reform and the means by which it can be accomplished. They explore a similar range of reform models: command and control; quasi‐markets; and devolution and transparency. But the circle between efficiency, client service and continuous improvement must be squared. Neither author considers the 'learning by doing' alternative. No less fundamentally, neither author addresses the political and technical challenges in developing strategy. How are issues to be aired in advance so as to expose evidence and perspectives? How are interests to be engaged and supporting coalitions formed? How are these processes to occur without executive commitment? How are unconventional ideas to be aired without being over‐ruled by populist or media sensationalism? These are the practical dilemmas that confounded Blair's efforts. These books invite a strategic conversation that is badly needed. But where in the political system can it be pursued?

AbstractThis article looks into the situation of human rights activists in Kazakhstan, the challenges they face and the role of international organisations, in particular the OSCE. The article maintains that in the mid-nineties significant change of policy took place and the 'war on terror' put further challenges on human rights defenders and civil societies. In view of the author the advancement of democracy and human rights in the modern world has had four main adversaries: oil, gas, war on terror and geopolitics. These issues increasingly determine decisions taken at all levels, including those related to the ability of the international community to influence the countries where human rights violations happen frequently. Concerning Central Asia, the governments have ratified a number of international treaties on human rights and have joined the United Nations and the OSCE. However, they have failed to meet the majority of their obligations under the ratified international treaties and faced no major consequences for this failure. Internally there is a host of challenges that civil societies face and the author points to a number of frustrations on their part.

The article is devoted of the problem of the coordination of the economic and the agrarian law. The author justifies that the economic and the agrarian legislation on the state regulation of the agrarian relations corresponds as the general and the especial. Methods of state regulation of the economic and the agrarian relations are uniform and should be considered by the economic legislation. The combination of the methods of the state regulation is independently fixed in the agrarian legislation. The author comes to a conclusion about necessity of three-level construction of the agrarian obligations legislation. The first level consolidates institutes of the economic obligations it is the subject of the economic law. The second level is directed on transfer of the methods of the state regulation of the agrarian relations it is the subject of the agrarian law. The third practical level of the obligations legislation is responsible for the legal maintenance of the state regulation of the agrarian relations it is the subject of the agrarian law.

В статье рассматривается одна из актуальных проблем истории канадо-английских отношений законодательное утверждение принципов внешнеполитической деятельности и статуса доминионов в рамках Британской империи. В статье последовательно анализируются основные факторы, влиявшие на трансформацию отношений доминионов и метрополии, показывается изменение степени внешнеполитической самостоятельности доминионов от «декларации лорда Бальфура» 1926 г. до принятия Британским парламентом Вестминстерского статута 1931 г. ; This article is devoted to the topical problem of Canada-UK relations history the legislative statement of principles of foreign policy activity and the status of dominions within the British Empire. The author gives a substantiation of relevance of the investigated theme. The basic extent which influenced transformation of attitudes of dominions and mother country are considered, the basic stages of Canada's sovereignty factors in first third of the 20th century are analyzed. In the clause a change of a degree of dominions' foreign policy independence from "lord Balfur's declaration" of 1926 to the statute of Westminster passed by the British parliament in 1931 is consistently analyzed. The author describes the evolution of self-governing dominions' status between imperial conferences of the 1920s.

Актуальность вопроса об источниках права связана с процессом кодификации российского законодательства. При этом термин «источники права» представляется автору статьи научно обоснованным и означает документы и прецеденты (в значении «случай, поступок в прошлом, служащий примером или оправданием для последующих поступков того же рода»), являющиеся носителями правовой нормативной информации. В целом, согласно мнению автора статьи, источники права это носители правовой нормативной информации, бытующие в юридическом поле, признаваемые всеми его агентами, содержащие юридические габитусы, вследствие чего обладающие способностью регулировать поведение агентов. The urgency of a question on right sources is connected with process of codification of the Russian legislation. Thus the term «right sources» is represented to the author of article scientifically proved and means documents and precedents (in value «a case, an act in the past, an example or the justification for the subsequent acts of the same sort»), being carriers of the legal standard information. As a whole, according to opinion of the author of article, right sources are the carriers of the legal standard information occurring in a legal field, recognised as all its agents, containing legal габитусы, owing to what possessing ability to regulate behaviour of agents.

В статье раскрывается понятие уголовно-правовой компетенции коммерческих организаций по противодействию экономическим преступлениям, совершаемым в сфере деятельности данных организаций, показываются фактические и правовые основания этой компетенции, а также ее пределы, содержание, порядок реализации и значение для оптимизации экономической безопасности. Сквозь призму исследуемой темы рассматриваются вопросы упрочения позиций официальной экономики в ее противостоянии с экономикой теневой. Формулируются предложения по совершенствованию соответствующих норм уголовного законодательства и практики их применения. ; In the article the author makes clear the notion of the criminal law competence of the commercial organization to counteract the economic crimes committed in the area of the given companies' activity; shows factual and legal bases of this competence and its limits, contents, the procedure of its realization and its importance for the optimization of economic security. Through the prism of the subject of study the author considers the issues how to consolidate the positions of the official economy in its opposition to the shadow economy. He makes proposals how to make more perfect the corresponding norms of the criminal legislation and practice of their application.

Статья посвящена проблемам мировой экономики, процессам финансовой глобализации и путям выхода из мирового кризиса. В условиях финансовой глобализации избыточная денежная масса меняет связи между долгами и деньгами. Появление новых производных финансовых инструментов увеличивает размеры существующих долгов Автор делает вывод, что основной причиной нынешних кризисов является разрыв между финансовым и реальным сектором экономики. В качестве выхода из кризиса автор предлагает усилить государственный контроль над финансовыми рынками и ввести альтернативные резервные валюты. ; The article is devoted to the problems of the world economy, financial globalization processes, and possible ways of overcoming the crisis. In the conditions of financial globalization, excessive money supply is used to change interrelations between debts and money. Emerging of new derivatives has led to increasing sizes of current debts. The author makes a conclusion that the main cause of the present crises is a gap between financial and real sectors of economy. As a way out of the crisis, the author suggests to strengthen the Government control over financial markets and to establish some alternative world reserve currencies.

AbstractThe author provides an analytical overview of NATO's relations with, and policies towards, its Central Asian Partners. Since 11 September 2001, pursuing deeper engagement with Central Asian governments responds to the — at times conflicting — requirements of realpolitik and of advancing core values upon which the Alliance was founded sixty years ago, and which are also enshrined in its Partnership for Peace (PfP). In analysing this tension between pragmatism and idealism, the article focuses on five main aspects. The author concludes that NATO's approach towards Central Asia reflects an ever-present/inherent tension between pursuing security imperatives, underlying interests and core values. The result is a complex and somewhat uneasy policy, which seeks to reconcile these at times contradictory elements. Hence the Alliance has pursued enhanced engagement with Central Asian Partners in the belief that through daily cooperation in key areas of NATO and/or common interest, some core democratic values would eventually be incorporated into Partners' approach towards security, the role of the military, and international co-operation, thus benefiting the long term process of democratisation.

In this article, the author attempts to define neoliberalism and explores the complicated political and intellectual motivations attributed to faith-based initiatives in the U.S. By explaining three key themes, the article opens to the overall importance in the contemporary study of political economy and controversy re the extent, geography and mechanics. The article then examines faith-based welfare and delivery of social service programs i.e. through the programs such as Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, etc. and the provisions in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, focusing on discrimination factors, and the Evangelical Movements effect on elections and the notion of pervasive sectarianism. The author also discuses Marvin Olasky's views and the American inability to distinguish between the deserving and undeserving poor; building up to the 2000 Bush presidency and the administrations task to establish the institutional architecture for implementing faith-based welfare. The article shifts then to gauging the impact re these initiatives; the problems and second-guessing applied; before returning to study the factors of faith-based social policy and partial neoliberalism, including other facets and influences within a complicated political economy. Adapted from the source document.

В статье раскрывается философская проблематика, связанная с военной формой одежды и формирующейся отраслью научного знания о ней. Автор рассматривает военную форму одежды как основной источник и центральную категорию военной униформологии, являющуюся феноменом военно-социальной жизни. В статье определены актуальность проблемы изучения военной формы одежды, показаны и раскрыты ее особенности, обоснована правомерность вводимого в научный оборот термина военная униформология. При этом автор представляет данную отрасль в качестве социального феномена и определяет научно-исследовательские задачи, связанные с его изучением ; This article is about philosophical range of problems concerning military uniform and branch of knowledge forming about it. The author of the article considers military uniform as fundamental source and main category military uniformology, whish is a phenomenon in military social life. There is the actuality of the problem of examining a military uniform is being defined, its peculiarities have been shown and opened and the Tightness of the name «military uniformology» is being substantiated in the article. Moreover the author of the article represents this branch as a social phenomenon and defmites the researches tasks, which connect with its studying.

Статья посвящена одному из самых драматических периодов русской истории 1905-1906 гг. Этот период неразрывно связан с именем С. Ю. Витте первым премьер-министром Российской империи. В статье раскрывается на основе обобщения материалов периодической печати, документов и воспоминаний очевидцев вопрос о воздействии либеральных и консервативных тенденций российского общества на деятельность С. Ю. Витте в период формирования правительства. На примере конкретных шагов С. Ю. Витте показаны тактика и стратегия государственной власти при решении насущных проблем времени. ; The paper is devoted to one of the most dramatic periods in the Russian history 1905-1906. This time is inseparably connected with the name of S. Yu. Witte the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire. Basing on the periodical press, documents and reminiscences of the witnesses, the author of the paper views the problem of the Russian liberal and conservative tendencies influence on the activity of S. Yu. Witte during the government forming. The author shows the tactics and strategy of the state power in urgent problem solving through the example of S. Yu. Wittes certain steps.