Котов Сергей Владимирович

In the 21st century, the issue of national security in relation to the actions of terrorist organizations remains relevant. With the development of digital and information and communication technologies, traditional hierarchical approaches in the fight against the enemy are not effective. New strategies and tools are needed that can identify decentralized structures, consisting of a number of loosely connected individuals, that allow modeling the structure and connections of a terrorist organization. Such a modern analytical tool is the analysis of social networks, as it allows you to establish social connections between people. The article provides an overview of the history of social network analysis and its use in understanding the organization of terrorist networks and establishing existing and potential connections of terrorist organizations.

The article is devoted to the research of the phenomenon when people become ambivalent about politics. It also reveals that the roots of ambivalence lie within the individual, with differences in political knowledge and attitudes. Alternately, these attitudes could result the way political choices are presented ambivalently in the wider political environment. We find that campaign environments can induce candidate ambivalence. For example in presidential elections, campaign efforts promote ambivalence most when competition be-tween candidates and parties is high.

The article raises the issues concerning the understanding of the problems of fascism and neo-fascism in the works of Russian and foreign researches. The article analyses the processes which led to the appearance of Fascism and its transformation into so-called “post-fascist period”, the author comes to the conclusion on the particularity, inferiority of the concepts which exclude the relationship between liberalism and fascism.