Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography

Radomir Bolgov. PhD in Political Science (2011). Associate professor at the School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He teaches the courses “Ethnic psychology”, “Internet and World Politics”, and “Security Issues in Asia”. His current studies focus on the Internet public discourse and digital policies in post-Soviet countries. Program Committee member of the European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS), International Conference “Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia” (EGOSE), International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV). Editor of the journal “Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations”.Vadim Atnashev. PhD, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: Ethnic and Political Conflicts, International law, Human rights, Eastern countries, Countering Extremism and Terrorism. Editor of theProceedings of International Conference “Topical Issues of International Political Geography” (Springer Geography).Yury Gladkiy. PhD in Geography. Professor, Chair of the Department of Economic Geography, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Corresponding Member for the Department of Professional Education at Russian Academy of Education. His research interests include humanitarian geography, regional economics, social ecology, and political geography. The author of school and university textbooks on humanitarian geography, regional studies, regional politics. Art Leete. PhD, Professor of Ethnology, Institute of Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of Tartu, Estonia. His research interests are hunting stories, belief narratives of the Russian Orthodox and Protestants, oral history narratives. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Member of expert commission of historical sacred places, National Heritage Board, Estonian Ministry of Culture. Vice Chairman of the Society of Friends of the Estonian National Museum. Member of the advisory committee for the journal "Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia". Member of IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association). Alexey Tsyb. PhD, Associate Professor of the High School of International Relations, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia. Editor-in-chief of the almanac “AKAΔHMEIA: materials and research on the history of Platonism”. Editor of the Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography (Springer Geography, 2020).Sergey Pogodin, Prof., Dr., Chair of High School of International Relations at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia. He is a PC member of many international conferences and member of editorial board of academic journals on historical science, international relations and regional studies. Editor of the Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography (Springer Geography, 2020).Andrei A. Znamenski. Professor of the University of Memphis, USA. Ph.D., History, University of Toledo, 1997. Fields of interest: Russia/Europe, Eurasia, Siberia, Religion, Modernity, Socialism, Nationalism, Western Esotericism. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of such journals as Ante Portas: Security Studies (Poland), Siberica, and Alaska History.

• Eurasia in the Post-Pandemic Political and Socioeconomic Prospects.- EU concerns about Security, 5G and Huawei.- Key aspects of climate strategies in Europe.- Russia's chairmanship of the Arctic Council: problems and prospects.- Political-Geographical Determinants of International Cooperation in the development of international transport corridors (NSR).- Making of a new petro-state in the Middle East? Fossil fuelled Kurdistan.- UN Charter interpretation in settlement of regional conflicts: Guatemala crisis of 1954.- Development of cooperation between Russia and China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.- A New Centennial Dream: China’s Second Centennial Plan and Sino-US Relations.- BRICS and the Contemporary Body Politic: Examining a Decade of Normativities in the BRICS Summit Declarations.- On Border Energy and Cross-Border Communication in Geoeconomics and Geopolitics.- Biopolitics in the Era of Coronavirus and Artificial Intelligence.- Digital geography and digital borders in the era of information globalization.- Globalization and the principles of tolerance.- Professional Ethics in Higher Education.- Thomas Hobbes and the Linguistic Construction of the International Political Space.- Russian-Swedish Economic (Trade) Relationships in the 18th century.- Geographic and historical factors in the development of political relations between St. Petersburg and Africa.- Social and Political Influence of the media on Corruption.- Open budget as a tool to fight corruption: cases of EAEU countries.- International practice in the organization of management accounting.- In Search of the Ideology of Public Serving: Analysis of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.- Transformation and Development of Digital Literary Criticism in China.- Verb Representation of Information Sources in Chinese-Language Political Media Discourse.- Electoral processes in modern Europe: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the electoral institution.- Sustainability and digitalization as the basic principles of the German environmental agenda.- Main trends in the policy of regionalism formation in the Republic of Altal.- Universities, Cultural Diversity and Global Ethics: Opportunities for Moral Leadership.- The role of Russian Soft Power Institutions in Ukraine 2007-2014.- Sports Relations between Russia and Europe through the Lens of Sport Diplomacy.- Sport as a focus of bilateral contacts between Russia and post-Soviet Central Asia.- The global tourism industry after the COVID-19 pandemic: prospects and ways of recovery.- How Do Geographical Imaginaries Shape Academic Migration to global centres and peripheries?.- Migrant Women as a Risk Group in Contemporary Human Trafficking.- Sociological and Legal Peculiarities of Migration to Turkey: the Case of Russian-Turkish Marriages.- Finnish labor migration policy and integration instruments: Talent Boost program objectives and methods.- Migration processes of the Vepsian population of the Vologda region: historical aspects and modern trends.