The сountries of the Black sea region: conceptual definition and coverage in the russian dissertations

Author(s):  E.E. Islyamova, candidate of Sciences, V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russia, defi77@yandex.ru

Issue:  Volume 44, №22

Rubric:  Topical issues of political science

Annotation:  The article examines the issue concerning the illumination of the countries of the Black Sea region in dissertational works defended in the Russian Federation in the period 1991-2017. An important issue to be considered in the framework of the conceptual study of the Black Sea region is the problem of defining and considering the countries entering it, primarily their number and illumination in the most modern Russian dissertational works. The designated question is the purpose of the study. Its tasks are defined as a brief examination of the concepts defining the country frames of the "Black Sea region" and the conduct of quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the topics of dissertations devoted to the countries of the Black Sea region within the framework of the political science specialty. The object of the study are the theoretical aspects of the analysis of the Black Sea region. The subject is the countries of the Black Sea region in the concepts and theses of political science in Russia. The main method is quantitative and qualitative content analysis, which made it possible to implement the applied part of the work as widely and objectively as possible and to evaluate the study in the modern scientific discourse of the political science of Russia in the countries of the Black Sea region. The paper concludes that there are a significant number of available works, but there are gaps that remain relevant for further study of this topic.

Keywords:  Black Sea region, countries of the region, dissertational works, scientific discourse, political science.

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