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    Civic education of youth in the conditions of the Eurasian integration of Russian society
    (YSU, 2021) Aleksanyan Ashot ; Nemanikhina Valentina
    The modern pedagogical process is designed to ensure the formation of diversified, morally and socially responsible citizens who can make decisions in a situation of choice, predicting possible consequences, ready for democratic cooperation and intercultural interaction, capable of participating in the development of the economic, political and cultural spheres of Russian society. At the present stage of the Eurasian integration processes and political transformation of Russia, the problem of the formation of civic culture and civic education play a civiliarchic role. The transition of Russian society from one political regime to another and the change in values are a factor in changing the attitude of society towards citizenship. Citizenship has always played an important role in the political consciousness of Russia, and in the context of the modern transformation of society, this fact cannot be underestimated. The civilizational character of Russian federalism and the civic dimension of nationality are specific, and one of the features of this character is citizenship.
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    Agency and perceptions of smallness: understanding Georgia’s foreign policy behaviour
    (Routledge, 2021) Erik Davtyan
    The conventional wisdom says that material and structural constraints push small states into a more or less predictable foreign and security policy. Georgia’s case shows that, together with these limitations, the foreign policy of small states is also influenced by the way the ruling elites perceive the smallness of their state. This article explains why at different periods of time Georgia demonstrated diverging and even contradictory foreign policy behaviours, despite not achieving significant economic and military strength or witnessing crucial systemic changes in its security environment. I argue that the way ruling elites interpreted smallness influenced their understanding of Georgia’s foreign policy capacity and agency in the international system. This in turn pushed Georgia into fundamentally different paths, stretching from a passive and mostly reactive foreign policy to a highly ambitious, uncompromising and hawkish one.