219. Western forecasts of
Russia’s future. Ed. by M.G. Nosov and others. Reports of the IE
RAS, ¹ 219, M., 2008.
Annotation
Western concepts about Russia's
future are shaped on the basis of perceptions of current situations
in the country, as well as on the stable stereotypes of Russia and
Russians accumulated for a long period of mutual relations.
Forecasts in politics are quite unreliable and very rare can be a
basis for taking serious political decisions. At the same time from
the point of building country's image analysis of forecasts which
are in a way a view from outside presents invaluable materials for
understanding and possible corrections of concrete policy of the
state and formation of its image. Vision of the situation by those
who accept the policy of the state and those who are not give a
chance to get stereoscopic section of the situation. |
