Classification of LEED World Standard Indicators in Sustainable Architecture of Contemporary Iranian Cities Based on Regional Ecological Characteristics: A Case Study of Qom City by Hassan Haji Amiri, Arash Seghfi Asl, mehdi ashjaee

“…Following developments in urban contexts of contemporary Iran, the creation of new urban contexts and cities has a direct impact on the ecosystem of its surrounding area. …”
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Global and regional trends of the century+ in the Middle East: A new interpretation by V. А. Kuznetsov, V. V. Naumkin

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The World of Regions or Regions of the World. Book review of ‘Asymmetries of Regional Integration Projects in the 21st Century’ by E. V. Khakhalkina

“…The reviewer concludes that this book sets out new directions for research of both the regional integration projects and their role in the global world order, and of interaction between individual countries and groups of states.…”
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Towards a Bipolar World. Book Review of ‘The Second World War and the Transformation of International Relations: From Multipolarity to a Bipolar World’ edited by L.S. Belousov and... by V. I. Batyuk

“…The book provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the history of World War II. The reviewer emphasizes that rather than providing a detailed examination of military operations the authors focused on their impact on the development of the international relations system. …”
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Editorial: BRICS in an Evolving World Order by M. Yu. Apanovich, Fulufhelo Netswera

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World and Russian Market of Mergers and Acquisitions by N. S. Zagrebel’Naya

“…The article also presents the dynamics of M&A deals in the world and in Russia for the period 2010-2014, the geography of transactions and their sectoral structure. …”
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Economic consequences of the First World War by Nikolić Srboljub, Mihajlović Milan, Epler Igor, Milanović Nikola

“…The post-war period, marked by recovery from massive financial expenditures, infrastructure destruction, and loss of the labor force, demonstrated that large-scale conflicts like the First World War not only lead to immediate economic collapse but also create far-reaching and long-lasting economic consequences, introducing the world to new challenges, problems, crises, and conflicts. …”
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Venezuela: Political Confrontation and the World Community by Z. W. Iwanowski, D. M. Rozental

“…The miscalculations of the incumbent president were used in election campaigns in other Latin American countries and became one of the reasons for the defeat of left candidates, the subsequent ‘right drift’ leading to the isolation of the republic. The new political landscape has also affected the architecture of integration associations, which failed to develop a unified position toward the Bolivarian regime.Furthermore, in a current heightened state of international tensions Venezuela has turned into a theatre of international rivalry and conflict involving all the key subjects of world politics. …”
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Rwanda after the Genocide: Formal and Informal Institutions in Overcoming Development Traps by E. S. Glazova

“…Permanent self-reproduction of crises or getting into so called development traps in underdeveloped countries constitutes one of the most significant world problems. …”
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Traditional Donors in Information and Communi- cation Sector Development Assistance by Z. E. Gomboin

“…The author also emphasizes that traditional donors, with the exception of Japan and the Republic of Korea, tend to favour funding assistance through multilateral channels, such as various European Union institutions and the World Bank. This trend may be explained by the ineffectiveness of many ICTs development assistance projects, which forces donors to diversify risks by shifting the responsibility for possible failures on the international organizations. …”
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Future destinations: how people cured of hepatitis C using direct acting antiviral drugs progress in a new HCV-free world. A thematic analysis by Sarah R. Donaldson, Andrew Radley, John F. Dillon

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Potential 2050 distributions of World Terrestrial Ecosystems from projections of changes in World Climate Regions and Global Land Cover by Roger Sayre, Charlie Frye, Sean Breyer, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Paul R. Elsen, Kevin Butler, Clint Brown, Jill Cress, Deniz Karagulle, Madeline Martin, Florencia Sangermano, Regan L. Smyth, Terry L. Sohl, Nicholas H. Wolff, Dawn J. Wright, Zhouting Wu

“…To support conservation actions that mitigate impacts from these dual threats, we have developed potential World Terrestrial Ecosystem (WTE) distributions for 2050 following IPCC best practice guidelines. …”
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Synergy and innovation of digital business solutions and “smart city” infrastructure by P. A. Levchaev

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SCO and BRICS in an emerging multipolar world order by D. V. Malyshev

“…In this regard, special attention is paid to the efforts to create a BRICS currency and to cooperation within the framework of the New Development Bank. According to the author, the SCO summits in Astana and BRICS in Kazan in 2024 should bring the development of these international structures, which embody hopes for the establishment of a new, fairer world order, to a qualitatively new level.…”
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MUSLIM POLE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY AND THE GENIE OF GLOBALIZATION by L. L. Fituni, I. O. Abramova

“…In contrast the process of Muslim’s world achieving a new qualitative status of a global economic power center (not to speak about its competition with other old and new powers for a place within a new global economic order), is practically absent from the Russian and international research.The authors propose a vision of a new quality of Muslim economies in the global balance of power, in emerging model of the global world order, in financial globalization and global governance – the gradual consolidation of the Muslim world. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF WORLD ORDER IN WESTERN IR STUDIES by M. V. Soljanova

“…However, it should be recognized that currently no widely accepted theoretical and conceptual apparatus, which complicates not only the study of the world order, but makes it impossible to search for common approaches of the international community in solving the problems associated with global development, new challenges and threats. …”
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The New South Africa and international news flow by Arnold de Beer, Lynnette Serfontein, Annelie Naude

“… The democratization developments in Africa during the 19905 (and not the least in South Africa) offered new opportunities for researchers in the field of news flow studies. …”
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Scope and trends of the digital transformation in the world industry by E. N. Smirnov, M. Yu. Antropova

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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“… One of the most significant tendencies in the development of Western historiography and social sciences in the last three decades has been the consolidation of a new multidisciplinary field of inquiry, comparative historical sociology (CHS). …”
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The importance of the general system theory for the modern world by Šijan Aleksandar, Karabašević Darjan, Rajčević Dušan

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