The Ph.D. (Political Sciences) thesis by Shafinskaya Natalya Valeryevna (Federal State-funded Institution of Higher Professional Education “The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration”) on the theme “The Adaptive Model of Implementation of the Russian Federation Humanitarian Policy in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”

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The thesis on specialty 23.00.04 - “Political problems of international relationships, of global and regional development” was read on 28.01.2021 at the session of dissertation council of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration on the base of the Federal State- funded Institution of Higher Professional Education “The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration”. In her research-work N.V. Shafinskaya refers to the actual theme of the competition between the leading world powers for geopolitical influence in Indochina and in Southeast Asia as a whole. Vietnam was chosen the object of the analysis, because in the recent two decades it has become one of the chief centers of this competition. The study is fixed on understanding the RF humanitarian policy methods in the SRV, the evaluation of its efficiency as the most important, but not fully used tool to maintain strategic partnership between our countries. The author grounds measures to counter the negative course of events, looks for various possibilities to prolong long-standing relationships between the RF and the SRV, to continue the cooperation in every sphere, from economics to culture. The tasks set by the author are solved with the use of methodology of adaptive modeling and building a dynamic model of the RF humanitarian policy in the SRV. There has been also applied the method of comparative analysis of possibilities and conditions of the USA, the PRC and the RF humanitarian policies in Vietnam. This permitted to reveal difficulties for realization of Russia’s humanitarian policy in Vietnam, due to the confrontation of ideas and senses, values and beliefs, on the one hand, of the Russian world and on the other hand, of the West. The revelation of this measurement oppositions assisted to evaluate the variables of the offered model and to correct specifically the components of the RF humanitarian policy in the SRV. The author has made the important conclusion of the tension between the processes of goal- setting and goal attainment in the implementation by Russia its humanitarian policy in the SRV, as well as of the necessity to re-consider this policy subjects. The author recommends to combine centralization and decentralization in it. Scientific supervisor: Shevchenko Alevtina Vladimirovna, Ph.D. (Political Sciences), Professor. Leading organization: Federal State-funded Institution of Higher Professional Education “The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration”. The main publications on the theme of the thesis 1. Shafinskaya N.V. (2019) The Russian Language as the Tool of Effective Promotion of Russia’s National Interests Abroad. In: Mir i vojny v fokuse geopolitiki: vzglyad s akademicheskoj kafedry: Pyatye Nauchnye Snesarevskie Chteniya: Sb. statej / Red. sost. Shevchenko A.V. P. 121- 125. 2. Shafinskaya N.V. (2019) The Adaptive Modeling as the Tool of Effective Promotion of Russia’s National Interests in Vietnam. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 445: 72- 77. 3. Shafinskaya N.V. (2019) The“Soft Strength” as the Tool of Russia’s Humanitarian Policy and Problems of its Implementation Regarding Vietnam. Uchenye zapiski Krymskogo federal’nogo universiteta. Filosofiya. Politologiya. Kulturologiya, Vol. 5 (71), No. 4: 152-164. 4. Shafinskaya N.V. (2020) The “Soft strength” as the Tool of the USA Humanitarian Policy Regarding Vietnam. Izvestiya Saratovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, Nov. ser., Ser. Sotsiologiya. Politologiya,. Vol. 20, Vyp. 1: 112-117. 5. Shafinskaya N.V. (2020) The Instruments of “Soft Strength”: towards the Problem of Staff Training with Konowledge of the Russian and Vietnamese Languages. In: Rossijsko-v’etnamskie otnosheniya segodnya: sfery sovpadeniya interesov. Moscow: IFES RAS, p. 197-209.