2010 PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

• S. Borisov. Balance of Payment of Belarus.
  The monograph for the first time in economic literature analyzes, in the framework of the balance of payment, the current state of trade, economic and financial ties of Belarus – Russia’s partner in the Union State. It examines, on the basis of official documents, the results of external economic policy of this country at different stages of development, its positions in international trade and world monetary system. The research focuses on specifics of payments on major sides of international transactions, including trade in goods and services, capital inflow and outflow, external borrowings, both in usual (quite) time and during global crisis. The author also pays proper attention to the challenges of trade and monetary cooperation with Russia. Special emphasis is maid on the analysis of the active use by Belarus of the Russian ruble as the means of international payments and reserves.
  This work could be useful for practitioners of public and private institutions, university tutors, graduate and post-graduate students, as well as for wider public interested in economics of former Soviet republics.



• Modernization of Russian Economy: structural potencial
  The authors of the study have tried to find out an optimum ratio between innovative and high-tech raw materials economies. The four big issues are analyzed: first, conceptual and methodological problems of diversification, modernization, and innovation (their identity and differences); second, resources, factors and mechanisms of economic diversification, modernization, and innovation (education, science and R&D, stock market, public-private partnership); third, potential vector of high-tech diversified development (ICT, civil machinery incl. automobile industry, military industrial complexes of the US and Russia); fourth, the main problems of the Russian economy diversification on the basis of radical modernization of the national technological, institutional, personnel, management systems in the traditional industries of the fuel complex, electroenergy, metallurgy, chemical and forest industries. The study provides for the main conclusion: only transition to efficient diversification of the economy is likely to let us use the natural competitive advantages as well as intellectual potential of Russia, i.e. the major resources for modernization.



• Prokhorenko Irina L. Territorial Communities in Political Space of Modern Spain
  This study explores if the territorial communities (regions, provinces, and municipalities) in post-Franco Spain can be seen in the categories of political space as politically organized territory with its own structure, specific character, density, and degree of homogeneity. The author examines them in a wider political space of European Union, and pay special attention to political space structuring process in Spain. Just from this point of view the following issues are considered: the phenomenon of Spanish regionalism and localism in retrospective review, the current state-territorial organization system of Spain and possible scenarios of its development, peculiarities of territorial communities financing system, and characteristics of their participation in decision-making process at national level.




Stepanova E. Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects / IMEMO. Moscow: Nauchnaya kniga, 2010. 288 P. The book is a new and much expanded Russian edition of the author’s earlier research report (SIPRI/Oxford University Press, 2008). It integrates analysis of the main extremist ideologies of actors that employ terrorist means in armed conflicts (especially religious extremism and radical nationalism) with the study of their organizational forms. The combination of ideological and structural resources of terrorist groups and networks at levels from local to global is seen as one of the core features of asymmetrical nature of terrorism and of those armed conflicts where terrorist means are applied. The book also offers an original typology of modern terrorism and a new interpretation of asymmetrical conflict.



• Transnational Political Space: New Realities of International Development
  International practice is viewed through the prism of political space concept, implying a commonality of rules, principles and values, which members of a certain community follow in their political behaviour. Authors focus their attention on phenomena of transnational political space, where established framework of national policy and politics is traversed both horizontally (meaning Post-soviet, European or Transatlantic spaces) and/or vertically (different modes of multilevel governance, as developed in Europe today). These tendencies can lead to the formation of international region as an aggregate of stable links and relations which demands political regulation of its own. The European Union is taken as a more detailed example to test the importance of policy networks in present-day transnational governance.

COLLECTED ARTICLES

• Contemporary problems of development. Papers of theoretical seminar at IMEMO RAN
  Ten seminars on problems of development in today’s conditions took place at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in 2006-2009. This book is a collection of papers presented and discussed during these meetings. Along with the general aspects of modernization in the context of globalization, the cases of some particular countries were examined too. IMEMO researchers were joined in this project by a number of scholars from other Russian and foreign institutes.



• “North – South – Russia 2009 Yearbook”
  A specter of Center – Periphery – Semiperiphery relations are presented in the yearbook. The positions of Russia in this interaction are also examined. The authors analyse long-term trends as well as major current events in 2009. A special attention is taken to the consequences of the World financial and economic crisis and to the post-crisis situation. Incidents in different regions, ecological problems and other topics take place as usually.



• MIGRATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OF ASIA AND AFRICA: GOVERNMENT REGULATION EXPERIENCE
  The authors analyse the main directions of migration policy adhered by developing countries of Asia and Africa, as well as forms and methods of its realisation. Regional focus concentrates on state regulation of migratory processes in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, Africa south of Sahara, South and Southeast Asia. Special attention is given to tendencies and prospects of the international dialogue on problems of migration. Attempt to assess parameters of migratory policy of these countries which could be of interest for Russia is undertaken.



• Mineral-and-Raw-Material Resource and Economic Development
  In the presented collected articles there are considered macroeconomic issues of the raw-material problem in its international aspect, including the role of raw-material resources in securing global competitiveness. Besides that tasks of the state policy in the field of diversifying raw-material exporting model of the economy are considered. There are considered also problems of mineral-and-raw-material industries’ sector of the Russian economy as a subject of macroeconomic diversification, on the one hand, and as separate economic subdivisions with their own technical-and-economic specifics, on the other one. In the process of diversification these industries, characterized by high level of resource demand, ecological threats, cumbersome corporate and technological structure, have to go along difficult path of adapting to new economic model. It is most probable that diversification must occur through combining the production of standardized, off-the-shelf products with growing share of individualized demand, market and products diversification, more profound cooperation with consumers, higher level of activity in the sphere of R&D and technological innovations.
  Publication is meant for researchers, high-school lecturers, postgraduate students, students, as well as broad masses of readers, interested in problems and prospects of modernizing Russian economy.



• Modernization, avtoritarism and democration. Eds. N.Zagladin, V.Katagarova.
  This compendium of papers represents the results of the conference dedicated to the political background of modernization process, starting in Russia. The conference took place at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Russian Academy of Sciences. The participants of the conference addressed foreign and Russia’s experience of modernizations and tried to outline the optimal forms of political provision of modernization, the content of possible changes in different fields of society development, prerequisites for modernization in Russia society.



• Russia: arms control, disarmament and international security/ IMEMO supplement to the Russian edition of the SIPRI Yearbook 2009 / Compiled and edited by A. Kaliadine, A. Arbatov. IMEMO, 2010. – 146 pp.
  This serial publication is associated with the Russian edition of the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, which contains supplementary materials written by IMEMO researchers.
  The intention in translating in English and publishing them in separate volumes has been to inform the international expert community about the research work being done at the IMEMO. In particular, readers of the original, English version of the SIPRI Yearbooks who may wish to acquaint themselves with similar studies originating in Russia.
  The authors of this volume analyze developments in 2009 in international and regional security, non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. The themes discussed include a number of priority issues. Among them: lessons from the 1991 START and the prospects for further deep reductions of strategic nuclear weapons, parallel security issues that are likely to affect strategic stability and nuclear disarmament negotiations; the potential deployment of weapons in outer space, particularities of arms control in this environment and prospects for limiting and prohibiting space weapons; compliance and enforcement processes in the context of the NPT regime and the ways to streng¬then them. Several chapters deal with regional security problems. They include: the long-needed reform of European security and Russia’s initiative to move toward a new Euro-Atlantic security architecture; the conflict in Afghanistan and the ways to resolve it; the risks posed by nuclear Pakistan.
  The brief summary of key Russian documents on security and arms control contains reference to legislative and normative acts passed in 2009. This information is useful to specialists looking for source material.



• The foreign experience of providing social-political stability and Russia. Eds. N. Zagladin, V. Katagarova.
  This compendium of papers for experts is dedicated to foreign and Russia’s experience of providing social-political stability under the conditions of global crisis. The authors conclude that the leading countries of the world avoided negative effects, typical for the Great Crisis of 1929-1932. But the same time it is noted that the present crisis may give stimulus for all the world and many countries, including Russia, to change the paradigm of further models of global, regional and national developments.



• USA in search of responses to the 21^st century challenges (social and economic dimensions)
  The authors’ attention is focused on the most crucial issues that determine U.S. global position in the long-run perspective, as well as in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 global systemic financial and economic crisis. The subject of the research is the complex interdependence between national and global development. A book examines factors and conditions upon which American social and economic leadership is built. A number of chapters is devoted to the analysis transformation of the U.S. institutional entities’ activities, including that of government, banks, new financial institutions and corporate sector. Special emphasis is placed on the U.S. “responses” to the global challenges faced at the beginning of the 21 century: the research covers the USA’s role and place in global financial system, national approaches to energy and ecological security, migration processes’ impact on social and economic development. The evolution of the American elite’s view on outside world is also examined.
  The study is recommended for Russian political and scientific community, as well as for the wider public.



• World 2020: Russian and Central-Eastern-European IMEMO, 2010.
  The book “World 2020: Russian and Central-Eastern-European” is written in the framework of the project realized by the Foundation for Prospective Studies and Initiatives and IMEMO RAS with the support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation. The publication consists of three parts: the analytical report, record of the international conference under the same title, organized in November 2009, and the articles of the participants of the conference.
  In the report the authors analyze the key tendencies and factors, influencing the global developments and eventual scenarios for 2010-2020 with a special focus on the specifics, objective as well as subjective, of the vision, perception and participation in ‘world 2020’ building of the Central and Eastern European states.

BOOKLETS

• Strategic Stability after the Cold War by Alexei G. Arbatov, Vladimir Z. Dvorkin, Alexander A. Pikaev and Sergey K. Oznobishchev Moscow: IMEMO, 2010. On 55 pages.
  This is the first publication of the series titled “Russia and the Deep Nuclear Disarmament”, which is to be issued in the framework of joint project implemented by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Inc. (NTI). It is based on the discussions at the conference held on March 18, 2010.
  The authors express their gratitude to the IMEMO staff for comprehensive support in the production of this research paper and organization of the fruitful discussion. This research report was commissioned by the Nuclear Security Project (NSP) of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). For more information see the NSP website at http://www.nuclearsecurity.org. The views expressed in this paper are entirely the author’s own and not those of the IMEMO or NSP.