Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (8)

(__Social and economic history since the 16th century)

1. Keywords: democratization, Tunis, Syria, Arabian countries.
R&D: Democratization processes in Arabian East: the example of Tunis and Syria. State's role in sociopolitical changes and democratic political superstructure initiation in the group of countries studied; prediction of the results and prospects of political institutes modernization evolution in the countries under study..

2. Keywords: USA press, Islam, CIS countries, Russia, foreign policy, internal policy.
R&D: The analysis of Moslem revival on post-Soviet space in USA press. Dominating trends are determined in approach to the problems of "Moslem revival", "Islam politization", the phenomenon of "fundamentalism" as they are presented by the leaders of American press. The dependence between the estimations in press made for the general public and the concepts circulating in scientific community is elucidated..

3. Keywords: renewal policy, Vietnam, centralized planned economics, market economics.
R&D: Evolution of Doi Moi (renewal) policy in Vietnam (80ies and 90ies). Complex study of renewal policy evolution in Vietnam for two decades. The analysis of the basic elements of the policy in socio-economic, internal-political and foreign-political fields..

4. Keywords: Russia, public thought, oriental studies.
R&D: Russian public thought of the first half of XIX c. about the Orient. The main levels of Orient and Russia perception are revealed: mass-notion level, that of forming scientific comprehension, and the level of philosophical and geopolitical understanding..

5. Keywords: Saudi Arabia, socio-economic reforms, public development, history.
R&D: Socio-economic reforms as a tool for Orient society accelerated transformation into capitalist way. The experience of Saudi Arabia. Public development of Saudi Arabia in the newest times is analyzed..

6. Keywords: Saudi-Jordanian relations, territorial rivalry, boundary regions, international relations, Near East.
R&D: Saudi-Jordanian relations: territorial rivalry over of the boundary regions of Al-Jauf and Vdai As-Sirkhan (1921-1933), and also Great Britain involvement in this rivalry as mandate keeping state for Trans-Jordan. The place and role of the conflict in the course of Saudi and Jordanian state systems formation..

7. Keywords: sociopolitical systems, North-East Yemen, history.
R&D: General trends and factors of evolution of North-East Yemenian sociopolitical systems (X c. BC.-XX c. AD)..

8. Keywords: Central-Asian countries, international relations.
R&D: Study of Central-Asain countries' place and role in the system of international relations formed after "cold war" and the breakdown of USSR..