POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE MODERN WORLD: DYNAMISM, MULTIDIMENSIONALITY, SPECIFICITY
The textbook «Political Stability in the Modern World» which clarifies the understanding of political stability offered by political science today as a scientific phenomenon within the framework of using the systemic, institutional, and other approaches is reviewed. The authors from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA), the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) and other leading Russian universities characterize the existing scientific research trends towards the modern understanding of the term «political stability», analyze the key factors and criteria for the stability of state, formulate the specific directions for ensuring political stability using effective tools, present the foreign experience in the context of stability of the global political process. The key distinguishing feature of the textbook is a close examination of the phenomenology of political stability from the perspective of various theoretical and methodological and practical positions using the conceptual and categorical apparatus and tool of modern political science. The greatest practical significance of the textbook is understood based on the need for reflection on the topic of geopolitical and geostrategic orientation of the Russian Federation in modern system of international relations in the context of problems of political stability and security. In the process of working on the textbook up to date factual data and authoritative expert analytics were used, which complements the material presented by the author's team in the best way. The textbook complies with the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education of the latest generation and is recommended by the Expert Council of the UMO in the system of higher and secondary professional education for master's degree students studying in the direction of «Political Science».