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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">politscience</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Политическая наука</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Political science</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1998-1775</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ИНИОН РАН</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31249/poln/2022.04.12</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">politscience-787</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПЕРВАЯ СТЕПЕНЬ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Релятивистская концептуализация малых государств с помощью индекса национального потенциала и соседства: пространственный статистический анализ</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Relativistic conceptualization of small states via composite indicator of national capability and neighborhood: spatial statistical analysis</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Барабаш</surname><given-names>Б. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Barabash</surname><given-names>B. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Барабаш Богдан Алексеевич, аспирант</p><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">bogdan.barabash.mgimo@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">МГИМО МИД России<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">MGIMO University<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>15</day><month>05</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title>Новая политическая география</issue-title><fpage>262</fpage><lpage>281</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Барабаш Б.А., 2023</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Барабаш Б.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Barabash B.A.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.politnauka.ru/jour/article/view/787">https://www.politnauka.ru/jour/article/view/787</self-uri><abstract><p>Малые государства являются особой аналитической категорией в политологии, политической географии и международных отношениях, хотя данный термин не имеет четких, разделяемых всем научным сообществом границ, а его концептуализация зависит от целей конкретного исследования. Вместе с тем в самом широком смысле под малыми государствами понимаются такие страны, которые испытывают недостаток различного рода ресурсов и занимают периферийное положение в системе международных отношений. Существует множество способов концептуализации малых государств, учитывающих как количественные, так и качественные критерии, однако именно при релятивистском подходе учитывается контекст взаимоотношений государств и их диадные связи в рамках системы международных отношений. Пространственный статистический анализ и фактор соседства государств позволяют произвести релятивистскую концептуализацию малых государств более объективно и универсально, так как с их помощью учитываются все диадные связи между соседствующими государствами. Для достижения цели исследования используются индекс национального потенциала, демонстрирующий «жесткую силу», и пространственный лаг, позволяющий определить круг государств, потенциально испытывающих значительное влияние со стороны своих непосредственных соседей. Основными ограничениями исследования являются игнорирование изолированных островных государств, не имеющих непосредственных соседей, потенциальное влияние которых имеет другую логику, а также неучитывание факторов «мягкой силы», за счет которой малые государства занимают определенную нишу в международных отношениях. Вместе с тем подобный способ концептуализации позволяет по-новому взглянуть на термин «малые государства» в интересах дальнейших исследований данной аналитической категории.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Small states constitute a special analytical category in political science, political geography and the theory of international relations, even though the term is not universally agreed-upon, and its conceptualization depends on the aim of a particular study. Broadly speaking, small states are those countries that lack various kinds of resources and occupy a peripheral position in the system of international relations. There are many ways to conceptualize small states that take into account both quantitative and qualitative criteria, but it is with the relativistic approach that the context of the relationship between states and their dyadic links within the framework of the system of international relations is taken into account. Spatial statistical analysis and the factor of the neighborhood enable a relativistic conceptualization of small states more objectively and universally, since they take into account all dyadic connections between neighboring states. To achieve the aim of the study, composite indicator of national capability demonstrating “hard power” and spatial lag are employed to determine the range of states potentially experiencing significant influence from their immediate neighbors. The main limitations of the study is omittance of isolated island states that do not have immediate neighbors, whose potential influence is different, as well as lack of “soft power” factors, with the help of which small states occupy a certain niche in international relations. Such a method of conceptualization allows scholars to take a fresh look at the term «small states» for further research of this analytical category.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>малые государства</kwd><kwd>политическая география</kwd><kwd>соседство</kwd><kwd>пространственный статистический анализ</kwd><kwd>индекс национального потенциала</kwd><kwd>пространственный лаг</kwd><kwd>релятивизм</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>small states</kwd><kwd>political geography</kwd><kwd>neighborhood</kwd><kwd>spatial statistical analysis</kwd><kwd>spatial lag</kwd><kwd>relativism</kwd><kwd>composite indicator of national capability</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Воскресенский А.Д. 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