Journal of Social and Political Studies

IN THIS ISSUE ENERGY POLICY Arbakhan Magomedov. OIL AND RUSSIA’S POLITICAL REGIME AT STAGES IN POST-COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT: CONTINUITY OF RENT SEEKING WITHIN THE RAW-MATERIAL PARADIGM REGIONAL POLITICS Abdolreza Farajirad, Asaad Khezerzade. RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE CAUCASUS UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN Murat Laumulin. U.S. CENTRAL ASIAN POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA David Babayan. SOME OF CHINA’S GEOPOLITICAL VECTORS IN CENTRAL ASIA Vladimir Paramonov, Alexey Strokov, Oleg Stolpovskiy. CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA Vladimir Karyakin. U.S. MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY: NEW APPROACHES AND OLD PROBLEMS Maya Manchkhashvili. TURKEY AND SECURITY IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: THE CAUCASUS STABILITY AND COOPERATION PLATFORM MASS MEDIA Eric Freedman, Richard Shafer, Slavka Antonova. TWO DECADES OF REPRESSION: THE PERSISTENCE OF AUTHORITARIAN CONTROLS ON THE MASS MEDIA IN CENTRAL ASIA Navbahor Imamova, Richard Schaefer, Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman. CONTROVERSY ON THE AIRWAVES: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, PORTRAYING AMERICA, AND PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH THE VOICE OF AMERICA UZBEK SERVICE REGIONAL STUDIES Ashot Alexanyan. POST-SOVIET SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP: THE POLITICAL AND CIVILIARCHIC DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY