Problems of the Social and Religious Security System Formation in the Russian-Chinese Border Region in Foreign Studies

Abstract

The study is devoted to the analysis of Western research on aspects of social security of the Russian-Chinese border. The article provides the allocation social security aspects in the Western descriptions of the Russian-Chinese border in the XVII-XIX centuries. The degree of political conjuncture influence on the interpretation of the social security of the Russian-Chinese border is determined; Modern transformations of the critical concept of social development of border Russian-Chinese territories in the XXI century are analyzed. The novelty of the study is determined by the fact that it is the first analysis of the factors and patterns assessments of social security formation in the territory of the Russian-Chinese border in the works of European and American authors. The result is the determination of the development vector of the Western Social Security methodology of the Russian-Chinese border area from early idealizations to positivist descriptions and a “critical concept”, where Russia is assigned the role of a social threat. The second result is to identify the content of the critical concept of the social security of the Russian-Chinese border, which is that Russian-Chinese relations are perceived by Western researchers as the factor in the lagging of regional society development from the global level. The third result is to analyze the transformation of the critical concept of the social security of the Russian-Chinese border, which is recognized by the regional framework independence and its dependence not so much from the Western trends of globalism but on the influence of East Asian players, the leading among which is China