POLIS (Political Studies) 2016, No 06 PRESENTING THIS ISSUE Presenting this Issue (p. 6-8) THEME OF THE ISSUE: ARCHAIZATION AND INNOVATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Alekseyeva T.A. The Debates about “Great Debates”: How to Structure the Theory of International Relations (p. 9-21) Lebedeva M.M., Kharkevich M.V., Zinovieva E.S., Koposova E.N. State Archaization: the Role of Information Technologies (p. 22-36) Stepanyants M.T. In Search of National Model of Development: Appealing to Archaization (p. 37-51) Sakwa R. The Crisis of World Order: Russia’s Impasse and Resistance (p. 52-68) THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL STUDIES Semenenko I.S., Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. Classifying Ethnic Conflicts: Challenges for Political Theory and Methodology (p. 69-94) Akhremenko A.S., Lokshin I.M., Petrov A.P. Institutional Possibility Frontier and Total Factor Productivity: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis (p. 95-113) Sergeyev V.M., Artyushkin V.F. Indicators of Innovative Potential of Political and Economic Development (p. 114-126) Prokhorenko I.L. Possibilities of Spatial Approach in Analysis of Ethnopolitical Conflicts (p. 127-138) RUSSIA TODAY Malinova O.Yu. The Official Historical Narrative as a Part of Identity Policy of the Russian State: From the 1990s to the 2000s (p. 139-158) REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT Yerokhov I.A. The Revolution, Which Will Never Happen Again (p. 159-172) Karelova L.B. Experience of the Cultural and Civilizational Approach to the Problem of Modenization in the Studies of V. Fedotova and its Heuristic Potential (p. 173-182) ACADEMIC LIFE Bardin A.L. The Problem of Migration in German Academic Discourse (p. 183-188)