The first Call for Papers
The Center for Regional and Transborder Studies announces the call for
papers for publication in its Second Annual which topic is: "Security
Issues of the Post-Soviet Space: realities and stereotypes"
This topic can include such points as:
 Regional issues of hard and soft security. Evolution of approaches to
their decision and alternative opportunities.
 The "double standards" in Post-Soviet international relations. The
interpretator's "system of coordinates" (nationality and ethnicity,
political, social and other interests etc.) as a factor of his (its)
attitude for the relevant issues. The similar categories and situations
(such as Pan-Slavism and Pan-Turkism, the human rights in Byelorussia and
Central Asian countries) which receives different political interpretations
respectively of this "system of coordinates".
 The role of information in the Post-Soviet regional system of
international relations. Misinformation and dosage of information. The
influence of informational distortions upon the actual security policy.
 Perception of security issues by Post-Soviet political elites.
Stereotyped categories of thinking and algorithms of decision-making
processes.
The deadline for submission of papers (not longer than 8000 words) for the
second annual is June 30, 2002. The selection will be based on such
criteria as the author's competence, knowledge of facts and of alternative
points of view (official positions of interested countries etc.),
observation of formal requirements.
Please send your proposals or put questions via e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
for Dr. Sergey Golunov, Director-in-Chief of the Center for Regional and
Transborder Studies of Volgograd State University, Russia.
Address: Dr Sergey Golunov, the Center for Regional and Transborder
Studies, Volgograd State University, 30 2nd Prodolnaya str., Volgograd
400062, Russia
Tel:7 (8442) 432025
Fax:7(8442) 438124
The first volume of the Center for Regional and Transborder Studies
(Post-Soviet Eurasia: ethno-cultural specificity of social and political
processes. The Annual of the Center for Regional and Transborder Studies
(the former Center for Eurasian Studies). Ed. by S. Golunov. –
Volgograd, "Print" Publishing House, 2001, 147 p. 5 papers/abstracts are in
English, 8 – in Russian. ISBN 5-94424-005-9 ) opened the series of the
annual publications of the Center for Regional and Transborder Studies – a
research unite within Volgograd State University re-organized in 2001 from
the Center for Eurasian Studies. This annual represents the papers devoted
to analysis of social and political processes with ethno-cultural
peculiarities within the Eurasian (Post-Soviet) space. All queries should
be sent to the above-mentioned address.
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