scholarly journals Memory Album: To the 80th Anniversary of Vyacheslav Y. Belokrenitsky

2021 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Dinara V. Dubrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Middle East Studies

On November 5, 2021, Vyacheslav Y. Belokrenitsky, an outstanding Russian orientalist, doctor of historical sciences, professor, organizer of science, head of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, celebrated his 80th birthday. The works of the scholar on the history and social development of Pakistan, India, the Middle East, on the problems of demography, Islam, international relations and general problems of the socio-political development of the countries of South Asia and the Middle East in the twentieth century are deservedly considered classic. Many of them have been translated into English and other European and Eastern languages and have received well-deserved recognition abroad, while such books as “Pakistan. Features and Problems of Urbanization” (Moscow, 1982) and “The East in World Political Processes” (Moscow, 2010) entered the golden fund of world academic research. The editorial group of Oriental Courier congratulate Vyacheslav Yakovlevich on his birthday and wish him inexhaustible health, inspiration and new brilliant research.

Historical and Philosophical Arabic Studies in Russia at the Turn of the Century (the 2nd Half of the XX - Early XXI Centuries)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-719
Author(s):  
Nur S. Kirabaev
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
State University ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Moscow State University

The article presents an overview of the most significant results in Russian academic research in philosophy of the Arabic Middle East in the second half of the XX century-the beginning of XXI century. The author consistently examines the contribution of various schools and their main representatives to the field of Arabic studies, in particular, the academic research works dedicated to the Middle East philosophy and history written by the scientists from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University and RUDN University. The article attempts to show the conceptual findings and results of this academic research on Arabic Islamic philosophy of the Middle Ages considering the problems of understanding and interpreting Arab and Muslim culture, which was held by a number of leading experts during the second half of the XX century, up to the early XXI century. It is equally important to understand the role and place of the historical and philosophical Arabic studies in the dialogue between different philosophical cultures - in the context of striving for responses to the challenges of the modern time. The author of the article proves the idea that overcoming false cultural, philosophical and ideological stereotypes in the unprecedented global interaction of East and West in the late XX and early XXI centuries will significantly expand academic mobility and internationalization in the fields of education and science, open new perspectives for international cooperation in various fields and promote mutual enrichment of cultures.

scholarly journals “And What is ‘The East’? Let us Better Say: ‘The Easts’”. Interview with Alexey V. Malashenko: On Teachers, Student Life, “Natural Selection” in Academic Research, and Arabic Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Vasily A. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Post Soviet Space

Alexey Malashenko is one of the most famous modern Russian Arabists and Islamic scholars. He is the author of numerous Russian, English, French, and Arabic works on political Islam, political processes in the Middle East, and the post-Soviet space. Among them: “The official ideology of modern Algeria” (Moscow: Nauka, 1983); “Islamic Renaissance in Contemporary Russia” (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 1998); “My Islam” (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010) and others. His career in academic research started at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For many years he was a member of the scientific council and chairman of the “Religion, Society and Security” program of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Today he leads scientific research at The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute. In connection with the anniversary of the scientist, a representative of another generation of Arabists, head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS Vasily Kuznetsov, decided to talk with Aleksey Malashenko about his teachers, colleagues, and students, about Arab and Islamic studies, about the development of Russian oriental studies over the past few decades.

scholarly journals Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Region: current problems of development – 2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 494-514
Author(s):  
E.M. Astafieva ◽  
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N.P. Maletin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The paper provides an overview of the reports presented at the conference "Southeast Asia and the South Pacific region: current problems of development", which was held in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences on December 18, 2019. In the annual inter-institute conference of Orientalists organized by the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania studies academics, as well as applicants and post-graduates from various academic, research and educational institutions, participated.

ISRAELI STUDIES AT THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: PAGES OF HISTORY (THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-232
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Karasova ◽  
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Andrey V. Fedorchenko ◽  
Dmitry A. Maryasis ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact

The article presents a historical overview of Israeli studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS in the first two decades of the 21st century. The paper demonstrates the main research fields and publications of the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities, as well as the list of its heads and research fellows. The article shows how, having successfully overcome the difficulties of the 1990s that were rather hard on Russian Academy as a whole, the staff of the Israeli Studies Department in their numerous publications, speeches at Russian and international academic forums tried to respond to the new challenges in a scholarly way. In the 2000s the number of works published on the history of relations between the USSR / Russia and Israel increased, and this trend continued in subsequent years. Access to the archives for the first time made it possible to analyze the formation and development of Soviet-Israeli relations before the break (in 1953). The department expanded the directions of its academic activity. Its topics included such directions as the study of the collective memory of Jews in modern Russia, cultural identity, cultural memory, religious and secular identity of Russian Jews, attitude towards disability and people with disabilities, study of youth communities in Israel, Russia and Europe, the impact of the US-Israeli relations on the US Jewish community. Development of basic methodology for researching the state of Jewish charity in Moscow was one of the new tasks for the fellows of the Department to solve. The novelty of the tasks also included new methodology of researching the economic and socio-political development of Israel using social networks data. The Department continued to study all aspects of the life of the State of Israel — economic, socio-political and cultural processes developing in the Israeli state, including new features in regional policy and the concept of Israeli security. At present, members of the department’s, in addition to their current activities, are implementing a number of promising projects aimed at strengthening the department’s position as the leading center of Israeli studies in the post-Soviet space.

5. Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-131
Author(s):  
Giacomo Luciani
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rentier States

This chapter looks at the role of oil in the political economy and the international relations of the Middle East. Oil is commonly considered a political commodity. Because of its pivotal importance as a primary source of energy, governments are concerned with its continued availability and seek to minimize import dependence. Historically, interest in oil — especially in the United Kingdom and the United States — strongly influenced attitudes towards the Middle East and the formation of the state system in the region, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Oil also affects the power balance within the region. The polarization in the region between oil-rich and oil-poor states is thus an essential tool of analysis. The parallel distinction between rentier and non-rentier states helps to explain how oil affects the domestic political development of the oil-rich states and influences their regional relations.

scholarly journals Tribute to Bagrat G. Seyranyan, Our Dear Friend, Colleague, and Teacher!

2021 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Vasily A. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
90Th Birthday ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century

On April 23, 2021, an outstanding Russian Arabist, Doctor of History, Principal Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Bagrat Garegionovich Seyranyan celebrated his 90th birthday. His works on the recent history of Egypt and Yemen and the general problems of the socio-political development of the Arab countries in the 20th century have long become classic. Many of them were translated into Arabic and received well-deserved recognition abroad, and such books as “Egypt in the Struggle for Independence, 1945–1952” (Moscow, 1970) and “Evolution of the Social Structure of the Countries of the Arab East. Land Aristocracy in the 19th Century – the 60s of the 20th Century” (Moscow, 1991) entered the golden fund of world academy. The contribution of Bagrat Seyranyan to the training of new generations of orientalists is colossal. Under his leadership there were prepared more than 40 Ph.D. theses, he participated in authoring of numerous textbooks and teaching materials on the history of the Arab world. In this paper friends, colleagues and students address the hero of the day with words of recognition and gratitude.

Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Louise Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Rich ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Middle East Studies

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the study of international relations in the Middle East. The two disciplines of international relations and Middle East studies are highly interdependent. No book on the contemporary politics of the Middle East can possibly ignore the way in which external forces have shaped the development of the region's politics, economics, and societies. Similarly, no international relations text can ignore the rich cases that the Middle East has supplied, and how they illuminate different theories and concepts of the discipline, whether in respect of patterns of war and peace, identity politics, or international political economy. The chapter then looks at some of the particular problems that arise in studying the international relations of the Middle East.

Glasnost, the Coup, and Soviet Arabist Historians

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-577
Author(s):  
Garay Menicucci
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Coup Attempt

The 19 August 1991 coup attempt in Moscow and the subsequent collapse of the economy of the former Soviet Union has had its effects on Middle East studies. The seizure of Communist party property and bank accounts and the dispute between the Russian federal government and what remained of the centralized Soviet state structure still headed by President Gorbachev placed such distinguished centers for Middle East research as the Institutes for Oriental Studies in Moscow and St. Petersburg in serious financial jeopardy. Even before the coup attempt and the dissolution of the Communist party, continued full state funding was uncertain and the institutes were scrambling to establish joint publishing agreements with Western academic presses to ensure some infusion of hard currency against the plunging value of the ruble. Individual researchers began looking for translation work or other lucrative forms of moonlighting to supplement their insufficient salaries. And, of course, the content of Middle East studies has undergone a radical transformation. For the social scientists, such notions as “imperialism,” “socialist orientation,” and “international solidarity” have been swiftly abandoned and replaced with what experts now call “the new pragmatism,” which seeks to steer foreign policy away from engaged ideological alliances in the Middle East and towards bettering those state-to-state relations in the region that serve Russian national and economic interests.

scholarly journals Middle East Popular Politics in Gramscian Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-484
Author(s):  
John Chalcraft
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
The Common ◽  
Middle East Studies

Abstract This article outlines a theoretical framework for researching popular politics in the Middle East and North Africa. It sketches a Gramscian alternative to existing approaches in materialist Marxism, cultural studies, and social movement studies. It also aims to think a Gramsci useful to historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, beyond the common loci of Gramsci scholarship in political theory, comparative literature, and international relations. With a start point in Gramsci's philosophy of praxis, it puts forward a concept of popular politics as a mostly slow-moving, complex, and many-layered transformative activity, a form of historical protagonism comprising a variety of moments, capable of working changes on existing forms of hegemony and founding new social relations. The point is to enable researchers in Middle East studies to see and research popular politics, carry on a critique of transformative activity, and inform transformation in the present.

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