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POLITICAL SCIENCE

1. Political power: existing approaches and their origin.

2. Political ideologies. Structure and functions.

3. Liberalism and neoliberalism as ideologies.

4. Conservatism and neoconservatism as ideologies.

5. Communist and socialist ideologies: main similarities.

6. State sovereignty: possible dimensions.

7. Civil society and a state: patterns of relations.

8. Welfare state: limitations and prospects.

9. The risk society theory.

10. Political crisis. Stanford model of crisis.

11. Ways to overcome “tyranny” of the political majority.

12. Revolutions: causes, types, features.

13. Political culture: main consequences for decision-making process.

14. Non-Western political process. The relevancy of “orientalis”.

15. Compare the political systems of the United Kingdom and the United States

16. Democratic political systems and political cultures (European and Latin American examples)

17. Non-democratic political systems and political cultures (African and Middle Eastern examples)

18. Waves of authoritarianism and democracy. Regional examples

ECONOMICS

1. Liberalisation (“internal” and “external”) of the world economy: reasons for liberalisation.

2. Globalization of the world economy: reasons for globalization and its impact on national economies.

3. The role of multinational corporations in the world economy. International cooperation in the world economy: fragmentation and interconnectedness of countries. Impact of MNCs on national economies.

4. Regional integration in the world economy: reasons and necessary preconditions for integration process and its impact on participant economies.

5. International labor migration. International migrant remittances and their impact on poor developing countries.

6. Poverty in the world. Measurements of poverty. Poverty alleviation strategy.

7. The food security challenge: its measurement and approaches to solving. Famine. The Green Revolution and its impact on the agricultural sector in the developing countries.

8. Sustainable growth and sustainable development.

9. Developed countries in the world economy. Shared characteristics of the developed countries group. “Triad” in the world economy and its periphery.

10. Key characteristics of the American socio-economic model and its major motive forces. The impact of external factors on the American economy.

11. Specific features and motive forces of the EU economy. The impact of the current economic crisis on the EU economy. West European socio-economic model and its variation. European Union in the world economy.

12. Main stages and driving forces of Japan’s post-war economic development. Specific features of the Japanese socio-economic model. Japanese economy in the current economic crisis. Role of external economic factors in the Japanese economy.

13. India and China in the world economy: contemporary external economic policy of India and China. Comparative analysis of Indian and Chinese policy of attracting foreign direct investment.

14. Comparative analysis of liberal economic reforms in India and China: internal and external factors of economic development.

15. Consequences of reforms in India and China: economic growth rates and social sector indicators.

16. Perspectives of the Indian and Chinese economic development.