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USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture
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(# 7, July 2001)
THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM TODAY:
VIEW FROM MOSCOW
What subsystems form American political system?
What are the features of American political system on the threshold of the centuries?
With what relevant "measurements" it is possible to consider and analyze a political system?
By what "constants" can one characterize the U.S. political system?
Upon what "whales" does American politics stand?
What economic categories can be successfully used for the analysis of American political sphere?
What is the political status of judicature in the United States?
Who, actually, makes in the United States the key political, economic and social desicions - the majority of population, or the elites?
Whether the Electoral College personifies the legimitisation of open interference of elites in mass democratic electoral process?
Is there in the United States such thing as mass political philosophy?
Whether the ideological default, which had burst in the Soviet Union, was only a component of global ideological default?
What way of development will America choose in conditions, when former world order is already destroyed, while new one is not formed yet?
This circle of these relevant questions is thought over by Doctor of Political Sciences, Chief scientific researcher of ISCRAN - BATALOV Eduard Ya.
WHERE WILL THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY GO IN THE BEGINNING of THE NEW CENTURY?
Russian Americanist's Opinion
What place did the Russian economy occupy within global economics in the end of èè century?
What prevents Russia to step "strongly and forever" on correct path of economic development?
What were the main advantages and drawbacks of non-market Soviet model of economics?
Why weren't all conceived market reforms executed up to the end?
What are the main economic results of Yeltsin epoch?
Looking at economic successes of Central and East Europe, as well as of Baltic states and China, what problems should Russia have solved first of all?
Whether the necessary conditions have blossomed in the Russian society for national revival and redirection of country on the path of more broad and steep economic transformations?
What macroeconomic indexes can Russia achieve by year 2015?
Whether the West is obliged to help Russia, because righr now she is guarding the West against the penetration of muslim fundamentalism?
Whether the European Union will use this capability?
This interesting theme is highlighted by Doctor of Economics, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Economic Sciences and Managerial Activity - KUDROV Valentin M.
SPACE ASPECT OF U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
What role is prescribed to an unimpeded access into space and its usage in the U.S. National Security Strategy for a New Century?
Why does Washington rank the activity in space as the vital national interest?
What are the guidelines of the Commission to Assess the U.S. Administrative and Organizational Aspects of Space Activity in National Security Interests, proclaimed on January 10, 2001?
What is the previous history of American R&D program for anti-missile defense?
What technical results were achieved in this field by spring of 1987?
What was laid as the basis of the Brilliant Pebbles Program, which was put forward by Livermore National Laboratory in 1987?
What are the grounds for for the suggestion that George W. Bush, Jr will continue the military-space policy of Republican administrations of 1980's - beginning of 1990's?
What are the technical characteristics of advanced stratospheric and space lasers?
What international ramifications should inevitably arise as a result of implementation by the United States of their plans on National ABM defense?
How have been used already such space systems as Global Positioning System?
How many space vehicles of various assignments had the NATO used during its raids on Yugoslavia?
What political advantages does a country receive if she possesses the space means of global monitoring?
All these interesting questions are answered by KORSAKOV Georgy Borisovich.
Following materials are also published in this issue:
- TRAVKINA N.M. FLORIDA'S ARITHMETIC LESSONS.
- Materials of April Conference, held in ISCRAN and devoted to the First Hundred Days of President George W. Bush-jr.
- Materials of the Second Conference of Young Canada Researchers of RAIC.
- The Nixon Center Report: What Is to Be Undone? A Russia Policy Agenda for the New Administration. Foreword by H.Kissinger. Wash., February 2001. (Translation from English).
- ZYABLYUK N.G. Lobbying and American Courts (second, concluding arti-cle).
- The review of the book "The U.S.A. and Europe. Perspectives of Relationships on the Boundary of Centuries ". Ed. By Utkin A.I., íoscow, "Nauka", 2000.
- Zyabluk N.G. Lobbying and the American Courts