RELIGION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: STATE OF DISCIPLINE IN THE USA

Having analyzed the works by the US researchers, I.Papkova demonstrates that such discipline that we can call for convenience "religion in the international relations" is still undergoing the stage of development. A lot of methodological and theoretical problems stay unsolved; the subject of the research has not been clearly defined yet. However, emphasizing the no less obvious progress in studying this filed that had been made in the US within the last 10 years the author concludes that all the necessary prerequisites for the further fruitful development of the new discipline have been generated.