This article deals with the study of critical thinking, the need and the ways to apply it in regional studies. It analyzes scientific and educational approaches to developing critical thinking in ...Asia-Pacific region. It studies them in a theoretical level and tests across regional studies. It gives the reasons to develop critical thinking across regional studies to improve a complex regional analysis in the modern conditions of informatization. It proves the need of integration of critical thinking and regional studies. The author offers to enlarge the model of professional competences of regional studies experts with critical thinking development, emphasizing the purposeful and systematic way of this development. The hypothesis of the work is that investigation of the scientific approaches to developing critical thinking in Asian-Pacific region will promote critical thinking of regional studies experts and their ability to analyse the region. It presents the results showing the effectiveness of the given professional competence model and higher level of critical thinking developed by purposeful and systematic steps during regional studies activities.
The concept «power» has a significant status in the system of global regionalism. All concepts of political research originated in different branches of knowledge. Despite the great attention of ...scientists, the specific definition of this concept and the various approaches of the academic community cause the complexity and inconsistency to study the concept «power» in political science. Geopolitical space in this century is changing and the challenge of the phenomenon is to make an attractive country image. The national idea and mission of it can be concentrated and used by soft power mechanism in practice. «Soft power» has a goal to create motivation for action and make a decision by an object that has a «soft» effect. Therefore, to study indirect impact on the countries’ politics becomes the most burning. This work analyses the methodological genesis of the concept «Soft Power», gives the features of some theories considering the concept «power», including: classical, political, offensive realism, liberalism, democratic peace, the theory of international organizations, etc.
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