TOPICAL ISSUES OF POLITICAL COMPARATIVISM IN RUSSIA
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2024-3-1514
Abstract
Aim. To identify the controversial problems of contemporary comparative political science and to present to the scientific community mini-studies on some of the debatable issues of political comparativism.
Methodology. In the course of the round table held at Moscow University with the support of the Russian Social and Humanitarian Journal the following topical issues of comparative political science were discussed: the possibility and prospects of applying event analysis in comparative studies; assessment of the state of domestic comparativism through the prism of the content of textbooks on the discipline; comparative-historical analysis of the Russian reward system; comparison of domestic and foreign scientific discourse on ideologies and the state of international relations.
Results. It has been established that the topics and problems of modern comparative studies, their dualism and contradictory nature are largely conditioned by the current state of international relations: the transformation of the unipolar world into a multipolar one. The incompleteness of this process, its complex and contradictory nature leads to the fact that the traditional scientific tools are not always suitable for the study of modern phenomena and processes.
Research implications. The results of the study may be of interest to political scientists specializing in the field of political comparativism, theory and methodology, the study of international relations.
About the Authors
Andrei V. Abramov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Political Sciences), Assoc. Prof., Department of Comparative Political Science, Faculty of Political Science
Vladimir M. Kapitsyn
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Political Sciences), Prof., Department of Comparative Political Science, Faculty of Political Science
Olga Y. Kokurina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Law), Prof., Department of Comparative Political Science, Faculty of Political Science
Daniil S. Polulyakh
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Political Sciences), Assistant of the Department of Comparative Political Science, Faculty of Political Science
Zhiqi Sun
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate student, Department of Comparative Political Science, Faculty of Political Science
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