USA * Canada
ECONOMICS - POLITICS - CULTURE
Published by the Institute of USA and Canada Studies Russian Academy of Sciences 2/3 Khlebny per., Moscow, Russia,
121814
MONTHLY JOURNAL Editor-in-Chief Edward A. Ivan ian
CONTENTS No. 3 (495), March 2011
Essays
Travkina N.M. Midterm Elections-2010. B. Obamas Political Prospects............. 3
The author discusses the results of the 2010 midterm elections, analyzing changing attitudes of the American electorate and the rise of the Tea Party movement. The Republican Party gained majority in the House of Representatives and won a number of new seats in the Senate. These results will have a significant bearing on public policy, both foreign and domestic. Keywords: midterm assessment, balance shift, Republican House majority, party polarization, Obama's dealings with Congress, Tea Party.
Komkova E.G. The Obama Administration and Canada-U.S. Relations............... 22
After an enthusiastic start in February 2009, when the American President paid his first foreign visit to Canada Canadian-American relations seem to have plateaued. Their nadir was reached in March 2010 when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticized Canada for organizing an Arctic conference that didn't include all countries of the region and contradicted the Conservative government's policy on maternal health in the Third World. Keywords: Canada-U.S. relations, NAFTA, Afghanistan, "Buy American", bilateral trade, economic conflicts.
Troitsky M.A. U.S. Global Strategy in Application to the CIS ........................... 39
The USA policy towards Russia and its neighbors, as designed and implemented by the Obama administration in 2009-2010, was actuated largely by global concerns. Willing to focus on non-proliferation, state-building in Afghanistan and conflict mediation in key parts of the world, Washington chose to downplay a number of region- and country-specific contradictions with Moscow that had arisen over the past decade in Russia's adjacent regions. As a result U.S.-Russian security cooperation gained new momentum. Keywords: Global issues, Commonwealth of Independent States, Ukraine, NATO, Eastern Europe, Trans-Caucasus, Central Asia, non-proliferation, deterrence, extremism, drug trafficking.
Economic Survey
Panferova O.O. Transfert Pricing (U.S. Experience).............................................53
This article presents an overview of transfer pricing by American companies. The examination reveals that transfer pricing is very important mechanism of the firm management the implementation of which is increasingly expanding. The author identifies both the methods of transfer pricing and the determinants of transfer pricing models. Keywords: transfer pricing, models of transfer pricing, determinants of transfer pricing.
Opinion
Deikin A.I. Obama Is Changing His Mainstream Economic Course...................... 65
The economic crisis in the USA is far from being over. President Obama's radical steps to reform system of financial regulation have led to a decisive break-off with the mainstream economic course. Obama and his economic team are trying to return the country on the path of the classical market. Keywords: mainstream, neoliberal economy, the crisis of government regulation, innovations.
State and Law
Schavarin M.S. Court Attributes in the American States................................... 79
The article deals with some specifics of courts in American States, such as court-packing in the system of power division, dual court system. Keywords: U.S. courts, distribution of State powers, dual court system, U.S. courts of limited jurisdiction, court records, U.S. States constitutions.
Science and Technologies
Zhiganova L.P. Problems and Perspectives of U.S. Agricultural
Biotechnology in the XXI Century....................................................................... 89
The article analyses current situation, problems and ways of development of agricultural biotechnology in the USA, citing plantbreeding as an example. The new seed technologies Apomixis and Terminator as well as the perspectives of their application are considered. Keywords: Agrobiotechnology, genemodified organism, transgenic product, Apo-mixis, genomics.
Background Material
Tsvetkova N.A. U.S. Web Public Diplomacy........................................................109
This paper examines the following consistent parts of U.S. Public Diplomacy Web 2.0.: its development, governmental agencies, strategy and main projects. The U.S. government exploits social networks in order to achieve some political goals, establish a dialogue with bloggers as well as to attract foreign audience to U.S. Radio & TV channels on the Internet. Keywords: USA, public diplomacy Web 2.0., social networking, digital activism.
Book Review
George Filimonov. Soft Power of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy
(by V.N. Garbuzov)........................................................................................... 123
The book focuses on the cultural aspect of U.S. soft power and basically on one of its key components - foreign cultural policy. The study contains two areas of research: the official American foreign cultural policy implementation and the so-called informal one. The author raises the issue of elaborating Russian national cultural security strategy.
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