Discussing the book: New International Relations: Main Trends and Challenges for Russia / ed. A.V. Lukin. Moscow: International Relations, 2018. 590 p. (in Russian)

State, legitimate violence and activities of private military-security companies in the modern world.

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Problems of European multiculturalism.

The problem of solvency of the State.

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Comparative studies of the problems of political geography and geopolitics.

The phenomenon of the contemporary Russian bureaucracy.

The article presents interface between ideas justifying Russian polity and efforts to implant those ideas into actual history of the country, particularly during the last century. Contradictory effects of those efforts are acknowledged and paradoxical results acclaimed....