Аннотация: The study examines Nigerian subregional diplomacy: study of Nigeria’s role in promoting West African Institutions The study focuses on Nigeria’s relations with West African institutions such as the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the Gulf of Guinea Commission and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The authors consider in detail Nigeria’s national interests vis-à-vis West African institutions and Member States. To achieve the objective of the study, the authors pay particular attention to Nigeria’s bilateral relations with neighbouring States and cooperation with African institutions. The study is based on the theory of political realism, which implies constant competition among States defending their national interests. In the process of studying this problem, the authors apply institutional, analytical and problem-chronological methods. The main conclusions of the study are the establishment of Nigeria’s role in the settlement of border and territorial disputes, which enabled the state to interact and cooperate with its neighbours, the importance of Nigeria’s contribution to the peacekeeping of the region, Identifying the stability of Nigeria’s foreign policy towards both Africa as a whole and neighbouring States, analysing the main problems of the West African region, which is the basis of Nigeria’s subregional diplomacy: insecurity, political instability and economic imbalance. Moreover, the authors provide critical analysis of Nigeria’s institutional cooperation. The relevance of the study is due to the growing political and economic influence of Nigeria on the African continent.

Ключевые слова: Economic Community, African Union, Anticolonialism, Leadership, ECOWAS, West Africa, Subregional Diplomacy, Nigeria, Mutual Interests, West African Institutions

Аннотация: В статье приводится структурно-компонентная модель политической системы Таджикистана, сложившейся за 30 лет институциональной трансформации, анализируется иерархия и роль институтов, которые оказывают наиболее значительное влияние политическую жизнь Таджикистана. Сделан вывод о полном преобразовании советских институтов политической системы в национальную институциональную модель, сочетающую демократические институты и авторитарные практики. За 30 лет независимости в Таджикистане произошла трансформация политической системы и всего общества. Под трансформацией политической системы будем понимать – организационную, ценностную деконструкцию преобразование прежних институтов и воспроизводство новых политико-государственных институтов, ценностей,   норм и общественных отношений. Социально-культурное наследие социалистического уклада жизни и советского авторитаризма, последствия жестокой гражданской войны заложили специфику генезиса политической системы Таджикистана. Институциональная трансформация, инициируемая и осуществляемая победившими в гражданской войне региональными элитами, привела к построению и функционированию своеобразной политической системы, синтезирующей демократические институты и авторитарные политические, административные практики институтов власти. Этот феномен вызывает научный интерес, определивший предмет, цель и методологию исследования – определение институционального наполнения политической системы Таджикистана и выявление специфики ее дизайна на основе структурно-компонентной модели.

Ключевые слова: трансформация, система, Таджикистан, политическая система, трансформация политической системы, политико государственные институты, институциональная трансформация, власть, институциональная модель, политология

Abstract: The article presents a structural and component model of the political system of Tajikistan, which has developed over 30 years of institutional transformation, analyzes the hierarchy and role of institutions that have the most significant impact on the political life of Tajikistan. The conclusion is made about the complete transformation of the Soviet institutions of the political system into a national institutional model combining democratic institutions and authoritarian practices. Over the 30 years of independence, Tajikistan has undergone a transformation of the political system and the entire society. By the transformation of the political system, we will understand organizational, value deconstruction, the transformation of former institutions and the reproduction of new political and state institutions, values, norms and social relations. The socio-cultural heritage of the socialist way of life and Soviet authoritarianism, the consequences of the brutal civil war laid the specifics of the genesis of the political system of Tajikistan. The institutional transformation initiated and carried out by the regional elites who won the civil war led to the construction and functioning of a kind of political system synthesizing democratic institutions and authoritarian political and administrative practices of government institutions. This phenomenon arouses scientific interest, which determined the subject, purpose and methodology of the study – the definition of the institutional content of the political system of Tajikistan and the identification of the specifics of its design based on the structural component model.

Keywords: institutional transformation, political state institutions, transformation political system, political system, Tadjikistan, system, transformation, power, institutional model, political science