African studies in Russia. Yearbook 2010-2013 : works of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk, issuing body.

Contributor:

Institut Afriki (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Study and teaching--Russia (Federation).

Africa.

Africa--Research--Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lac-Beauport, Quebec : Meabooks Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The publication is the latest in the African Studies in Russia series of compilations and contains full articles and annotations of the most important ñ from the point of view of editors - works of Russian Africanists over a certain period. The authors work at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The present issue covers the years 2010 to 2013 and consists of two sections. The first section presents conceptual articles on Africa published in authoritative journals. The second section offers synopses of books by Russian authors on economics, cultural anthropology, social and political development, gender studies, and international relations of African countries. The main objective of the triennial series of compilations is to introduce new findings of Russian Africanists to interested foreign scholars who do not speak Russian.

Contents:

Articles.

Patterns of formation and transition of models of global economic development / Leonid Fituni, Irina Abramova

Urbanization in Africa : driver or impediment to economic growth? / Irina Abramova

Sub-Saharan Africa : implementation of the millennium development goals / Irina Matsenko

International corporations in Africa : how they cooperate with the national business and what changes bring to the economy of the black continent / Georgiy Roshchin

Africa's challenge : the civilizational crisis of catching-up development / Igor Sledzevskiy

Africa, Russia and the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU / Yevgeniy Korendyasov, Andrey Urnov, Vladimir Shubin

"Universal" concept of human rights and "African specifics" / Dmitri Bondarenko

Use of foreign military force in Africa (on the example of the Horn of Africa) / Stanislav Mezentsev

How to optimize fertility and prevent humanitarian catastrophes in tropical Africa / Andrey Korotaev, Yulia Zinkina

"Arab Spring" : transformation of political paradigm in context of international relations / Leonid Fituni

Has the "Arab Spring" really happened? (another look at the events in Arab Countries) : features of the Arab political culture and potential for the formation of civil society / Nailia Fakhrutdinova

Synopsis

Encyclopedia "Africa"

Economic studies

Sociological and political studies

International studies

Socio-cultural studies

Gender studies

North African Studies

Tropical African studies

Southern Africa studies.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Moscow : Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

Comprises translations from Russian into English of articles by Russian scholars of African studies, as well as English summaries of articles and books in the African studies area in Russia.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 8, 2015).

ISBN:

9780993996955

0993996957

OCLC:

907504277