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Piotr Dutkiewicz is the professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He got his education at Warsaw University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a Visiting Fellow at St. Peter's and Nuffield Colleges in Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Berkeley University, Institute for International Relations. He is a member of the Valdai Club, a group of forty renowned experts on Russia. In 2009, he received the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation from President Dmitry Medvedev. In this interview professor Dutkiewicz will tell us about the main contradictions shaping the new world order. ; Петр Дуткевич - профессор политологии и содиректор Центра управления и государственной политики Карлтонского университета (Оттава, Канада). Получил образование в Варшавском университете и Российской Академии наук, является приглашенным научным сотрудником в колледжах Св. Петра и Наффилда в Оксфорде и приглашенным профессором в Институте международных отношений Калифорнийского университета Беркли. Он является членом клуба «Валдай» - группы из сорока известных экспертов по России. В 2009 году получил Орден Дружбы Российской Федерации от Президента Дмитрия Медведева. В своем интервью профессор П. Дуткевич рассказывает об основных противоречиях, формирующих новый миропорядок.

Introduction / Elena Chebankova -- What is civilization? : problems and definitions / Elena Chebankova -- Ideology and civilizational discourse / Elena Chebankova and Piotr Dutkiewicz -- Civilizational ideology in action : challenge to the current world order / Raffaele Marchetti -- World of worlds : the global order/disorder in its civilizational dimension / I.V. Sledzevsky -- Civilization and multipolarity : converging for co-operation vs. interactions of the diverged / Ivan Safranchuk -- Civilization and modernity / Boris Mezhuev -- Civilization and liberal democracy / Adrian Pabst -- Civilization and the globalization of capitalism / David Lane -- The Russia-civilization : change and continuity / Andrei P. Tsygankov -- Conclusions / Piotr Dutkiewicz and Elena Chebankova.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "All human beings have unlimited potential, unlimited capacity, unlimited creative energy" -- 2. "Minority rights are a part of human rights" -- 3. "We can have faster economic growth if we reduce inequality" -- 4. "If you make consistent, gradual changes, they can add up to something enormous" -- 5. "The new order is being born, but the old order is still strong" -- 6. "This is not Planet Earth; it's Planet Ocean" -- 7. "We need to become a planet of gardeners . . . to make our cities function as integral parts of nature" -- 8. "We are all interdependent on this earth" -- 9. "Think communally" -- 10. "Recognize the structural crisis of the world-system" -- 11. "Re-create the social state" -- 12. "Create global social policy" -- 13. "Understand that power is diffuse and change is constant" -- 14. "People want and need solidarity and social reproduction" -- 15. "It is increasingly difficult to anticipate the future of democracy by looking back at its past" -- 16. "Genuine dialogue requires not only talking but a great deal of listening" -- 17. "People who want to change things must keep pushing for change" -- 18. "Capitalism as a mode of power" -- 19. "The best approach to economic development is pragmatism" -- 20. "Developing countries can bring in advanced technology and actively catch up with developed countries" -- 21. "Because the Chinese growth model became so successful in ensuring catch-up development it has become extremely appealing in the developing world" -- 22. "Developing countries are in an unprecedentedly strong position in the world economy" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the brink of collapse. There is also a crisis in the management of global affairs, with the institutions of global governance challenged as never before, accompanied by conflicts ranging from Syria, to Iran, to Mali. Domestically, the bases for democratic legitimacy, social sustainability, and environmental adaptability are also changing. In this unique volume from the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civi.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Missing in Translation: Re-conceptualizing Russia's Developmental State -- Chapter Two. The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands -- Chapter Three. The Sovereign Bureaucracy in Russia's Modernizations -- Chapter Four. The Changing Dynamics of Russian Politics -- Chapter Five. Leadership and the Politics of Modernization -- Chapter Six. The Sociology of Post-reform Russia -- Chapter Seven. Elites: The Choice for Modernization -- Chapter Eight. Education for an Innovative Russia -- Chapter Nine. Health and Health Care in Russia Today and Tomorrow -- Chapter Ten. The Imaginary Curtain -- Chapter Eleven. What Kind of a Europe for What Kind of Russia -- Chapter Twelve. The Obama Administration's "Reset Button" for Russia -- Chapter Thirteen. Russia: The Eastern Dimension -- Chapter Fourteen. Russia and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia: Relations Transformed -- Chapter Fifteen. Of Power and Greatness -- Afterword. Russia and the West: Toward Understanding -- Contributors -- Index

In Russia a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation of Russia. This timely and important book of original essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both in its domestic policies and in its international relations. It also explores how global order - or disorder - may develop over the coming decades.

Cet article analyse le transfert aux pays d'Europe de l'Est des normes libérales-démocratiques dans le domaine des relations civilo-militaires au cours de la dernière décennie. Les auteurs ont recours à une nouvelle approche - la « politique du mimétisme » - et explorent à ce titre la transformation des relations civilo-militaires comme étant un série d'interactions complexes entre, d'une part, les modèles traditionnels et tenaces d'activité institutionnelle, et, d'autre part, de nouvelles politiques et de nouvelles normes qui ont été introduites en fonction de politiques axées sur I'OTAN et VUE et adoptées par la plupart des États est-européens au début des années 1990, et d'un ensemble de conditions imposées par les organisations internationales. Les auteurs mettent en perspective les différences régionales dans le processus du transfert des normes en comparant les cas de l'Europe centrale et de la Russie. Cette approche permet ainsi d'exposer de nombreuses dimensions de la synthèse émergente entre les anciennes et les nouvelles normes. Une telle synthèse démontre que ces États (et cela est particulièrement évident dans le cas de la Russie) peuvent se protéger des défis externes. La principale conclusion de l'article suggère que les nouveaux systèmes émergents d'Europe de l'Est, grâce au mimétisme institutionnel et normatif, cherchent leur propre voie de transformation.