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Instead of predicted end of ideology and ideological competition due to presumed 15-20 years ago final victory of Western liberalism and democracy the world is sliding into the new ideological struggle. There are many reasons for it: appeal of the West is declining, the democratization and renationalization of international polities push to the fore new leaders and most of them profess traditional and nationalist values. New post-European values did not get hold in Russian society seeking old values it has been cut off during the 70 years of the Communist experiment and also due to the fact that the West pursued a neo-Weimar policy of geopolitical expansion, which provoked defensive reaction to everything coming from the West. The intensity of the new ideological struggle is exacerbated by the moral and ideological vacuum created by modernization, which pushes aside many traditional religious and moral values. Author concludes that mutual resentment between Russia and Europe is quite strong right now, but it's better to build good-neighborly relations while understanding that we are different. And it's needed to try hard to avoid a new systemic military-political confrontation that is desired by many forces.

Contrary to the hopes for the progressive and constructive development of Russian-American relations after the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the ideological confrontation between Marxism-Leninism and liberal capitalism, the United States and the Russian Federation are currently in a state of a new "cold war". Although both the United States and the Russian Federation are currently capitalist states, there is an irreconcilable ideological struggle between them, where Russian bourgeois nationalism collides with American liberal globalism. A new detente in Russian-American relations is possible only after reducing the intensity of this ideological confrontation.

This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative.

Aus sowjetischer Sicht

Part One. Schooling the Nation : Inside a Girls' Preparatory School -- An Ethnographer's Orientation -- Schooling Citizens -- Educating Girls -- Teachers of The Nation -- Grade Fever -- Part Two. Political Islam and Education -- The Islamist Wave and Education Markets -- Experiments in Counter-Nationalism -- Downveiling -- Part Three. Youth in a Changing Global Order -- Education, Empire, and Global Citizenship -- Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice -- Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age : A View from Egypt -- It's Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as "The Precariat" -- Part Four. Conclusions and Future Directions -- Is the School as We Know it on its Way to Extinction?