East in the Focus of Research Attention

Abstract

This issue of the Comparative Politics Russia journal is devoted to the consideration of one of the most relevant topics in the theory of international relations and political science - the analysis of political processes in the East. Recent years have marked a pronounced and dynamic trend of geopolitical and geo-economic ascent of the East, whose successes shade the contradictory trajectories of evolution of other geopolitical zones. At the same time, the concept of the East is not a strict definition, but rather a metaphor covering a vast and extremely heterogeneous zone, which is not a consolidated continent, but rather an archipelago, the constituent elements of which bear little resemblance to each other.