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2 July 2014 during the work of the First Congress of the Russian society of political scientists in Suzdal was solemnly presented with the pretentious name "22 ideas to fix the World: Conversations with the World’s Foremost Thinkers" / edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa - M: Moscow University Press, 2014. - 528 p.
The topics of the interview are associated with the actual problems of the modern global world.
I had time to read a compilation of interviews with famous scientists and public figures. I had a lot of additional questions for each interview, but in this article only one question for each interview will be mentioned.

1.Muhammad Yunus is known as a supporter of micro crediting as a way for developing countries to get out of poverty. But will not this strategy stay being some kind of exotic, considering extand world order, because this order was estabilished under the influence of powerful religious incentives like protestant ethic.

2. Will Kymlicka. Political philosophy of canadian Professor is aimed to protect the rights of minorities. But how about the fact that the majority of population in different countries usually suffers from the aggressive behavior of well-organised (Mostly in mafia way) minorities?

3. Joseph Stiglitz Nobel laureate is known as a critic of modern economic policy and the economy as a science. But is economy real science if it’s models are often were very accurate, but they were totally wrong? (P.66)

4. Ha-Joon Chang also critically speaks about neoliberalism. But if the political elite all over the world has come under the power of financiers, how they are able to break free?

5. Jose Antonio Ocampo talks about global inequalities and maintaining relations of center – periphery type. Thereby, is it possible to eliminate that type of relations in the world economy and politics and is it possible to create “united front” of “Southern” countries in order to achieve justice in the world?

6. Paul Watson supports radical environmental point of view. But is the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the fast reduction of the human population more preferable than environmental disasters? How to avoid the extinction of a large part of humanity considering the deterioration of environmental conditions of it’s existence?

7. Mike Davis is an example of the left-wing American intellectual who criticizes  “modern American form of fascism". If it is really fascism, how can we oppose the establishment of its global power considering the global dominance of the United States?

8. Olzhas Suleimenov - known Kazakh writer and public figure and the author of the acclaimed at the time and very controversial book "AZ I ya". Like Chingiz Aitmatov, Suleimenov live in Europe, engaging in cultural diplomacy. In his interview, he repeatedly (and disapprovingly) mentions Russia's role of elder brother. But can Central Asia claim the role of a future social order, where representatives of different nations and religions can live peacefully, after the Dissolution of the USSR and achieving independence by younger brothers?

9. Vladimir Yakunin criticizes "predator-like character of the modern global elite. What can be done to make this "predation" less manifested in the behavior of the national political and economic elites?

10. Immanuel Wallerstein continues to criticize capitalism and bury American hegemony. Everything comes to end, although we can argue about the causes and terms. But it's interesting to know how the author takes the index, according to which the leader is the one who can push their decision in 95% of cases by 95% of the questions"?
(Due to the availability of texts of Wallerstein in Russian language, and there is a surprise at the choice of works for translation. Volume fundamental "Modern world-system, which analyses the Genesis of the capitalist world-economy" is not available yet; but there is a lot of translated interviews, speeches, articles, etc. that makes him look like a famous American sociologist like  Mikhail Delyagin).

11. Zygmunt Bauman continues to develop very controversial thesis sample of the 1990’s, that says that conditions of globalization weaken and fade away nation states.  Is there something irrational and really far from scientific analysis of nowadays reality in that try to bury nation state?

12. Bob Deacon is a specialist in social policy in different countries. Is it possible to create some common standards in global social policy, considering that honestly its success in developed countries was achieved mostly due to the exploitation of the resources of the rest of the world?

13. Peter J. Katzenstein is engaged in international political economy and called for the establishment of education systems, focusing on the history of the world. But considering past enmities and current nonequilibrium state of the world, can there be a single and "correct" world history for all, not an option that is pushed by dominant Anglo-America? On the other hand, the diffusion of power and the loss of positions hegemon, can lead to a general chaos of the present, not to mention the past.

14. Craig Calhoun says about instability of the whole complex of relations of the modern world in the era of globalization. But how can most people link direct experience to relatively localized conditions" (p. 306) with global phenomena and possible for a majority of the establishment of that kind of link?

15. Ivan Krastev is the Bulgarian political scientist from Vienna declares that instead of the "end of history" of Fukuyama, came the end of the future, when globalization has destroyed the idea of the ideological choice" (p. 319). But, it would be necessary to clarify in more detail what are these forces, that impose mankind such uncontested election?

16. Fred Dallmayr actively supports various forms of dialogue of cultures and civilizations and criticizing Carl Schmitt, says that "politics is the search for the common good" (p. 341). But how can search of good life be possible without its defense from the foe.

17. Manuel F. Montes is the Advisor for global Finance, in fact, says that the debt crisis arose due to the fact that after freezing salaries, loans was way to ensure the welfare gains (or, in our opinion, to steal a future for themselves). How to overcome the addiction to the financial circles of socio-economic policy of the state?

18. Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan are long-term co-politeconoms that quite justified, in our opinion, criticize split of the political economy to economy and political science. This split often don’t let to agree with the statement of quoted politeconomia that "capitalism is the power and nothing but the authorities" (p. 397). But can some kind of totalitarian regime, not more fair society be alternative to the authority of capital?

19. Jomo Kwame Sundaram talks interesting about some aspects of economic development. But can we agree with his thesis that "the dissolution of the Soviet Union was not economically driven" (p. 428)? Is it enough for such approval to operate only the data on production decline after the dissolution of the USSR?

20. Kemal Dervis talks about the possibility for developing countries to catch up with the help of new technologies. But whether this possibility, except for some economies, which may not be the General rule?

21. Economist Vladimir Popov mentions sensational article of Shleifer and Treisman about post-Soviet Russia "Normal country", saying that this was "normal developing country". But what are the conditions under which the Russian Federation can become normal  DEVELOPED country?

22. Jiemian Yang is the Chinese analyst, suggests that the "great recession" has benefited developing countries and in particular China. Has this "benefit" strategic character, at least in the horizon of a decade or is it just a temporary redistribution of economic opportunities between developed (Mature) and increasing (emerging to modern stages) economies?