Abstract: The article is devoted to the synergetics as a theoretical basis of the political science. The author notes the appearance of the global information space, in which the technologies of info-physiological influence on human mentality are applied in the forms of people’s protest movement. Social medium obtained an absolutely new quality, transforming from the critical opposition to the functioning authority to the highly explosive substance. In this situation the external actors of international policy serve as a fuse, acting  with the aim to transform the political regime. The methodology of the research is based on the system, structural-functional, and comparative-political approaches, the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, and observation. The contemporary political processes, taking place in different regions, raise the topical task of synergetic vision of socio-political processes and development of the new methodology of analysis and forecasting its dynamics, based on the self-organization principles of societal systems and the creation of new and effective control mechanisms.

Abstract: Book Review: Nikolaichuk IA Political mediametrics. Foreign media and Russia's Security: monography. / IA Nikolaichuk; Ros. Inst strategist. Issled. - M .: RISS, 2015 - 230, [20] p. : Ill. The work of a senior researcher of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, IA Nikolaichuk "Political mediametrics. Foreign media and the security of Russia" is dedicated to researching the activities of foreign media in analytics, and the information space by the methods of statistical processing of published materials in order to identify and analyze the dynamics of the disposition of the so-called "fourth power" towards Russian Federation, forming public opinion and, ultimately, the policies of country leaders on in global politics. The methodological basis of the research includes the systemic, structural and functional, comparative political approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation. The interest directed towards this work is due to the fact that the issue of forming public opinion and media influence on public policy is considered by the author is not in theoretical terms, but based on the analysis of a large volume of materials that are published abroad that cover the policy of Russian leadership on pressing international issues over the past few years. It ensures a high degree of reliability of the study's results, and allows to create an information system for monitoring the situation using the methods proposed by the author of political mediametrics that were developed based on personal professional experience in the Russian analytical agencies.

Abstract: This article analyzes the evolution of political science. The object of research is the Russian and international political science, the subject of investigation - the trends and patterns of its evolutionary development in the postmodern era. It is noted that in the era of globalization, the ideology of liberalism as a political theory and practice of the West, has become a tool for shaping global economic, informational and cultural spaces. This political science research focuses on the study and analysis of the characteristics of complex and non-linear social and political systems that have a high-rate variability.The methodological basis of the research is a systemic, structural and functional, comparative political approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation.Accelerating the transformation of the political realities of the modern world put on the agenda the issue of research of socio-political and economic systems as self-regulating and self-developing systems, as network structures, non-linear and open to the environment and exposed to social entropy.

Abstract: On the basis of the retrospective historical analysis of the previous cycles of modernization in Russia, the author attempts to find the leverage spots for overcoming the barriers which stand in the way of Russia's development in critical periods of history. Judging by the analysis of Russian modernization cycles, our country as a major power has been objectively compelled to accept globalization's challenges, but each time, was subjectively not ready for it. The periods of open-door politics cycled with long periods of self-isolation, which involved reappraisal of values and the search for Russia's own ways of development. All of this led to instability, which threatens catastrophic domestic scenarios. The methodological basis of this research includes the systemic, structural-functional, comparative political approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, observation. Nowadays Russia is facing the next stage of reforms along with aggravation of the international situation. At the same time the scale of problems that Russia is facing considerably surpasses its available economic, personnel and demographic resources. It is obvious that Russia must abandon inertial approach to interstate and domestic problems, passive defense that often conceals passivity with the imitation of work of the government, and cautious wait-and-see behavior that leads to delayed reaction to events, instead of their causes. The article offers a problem-solving toolkit and possible scenarios of international development in the context of security of the Russian Federation.