политология

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy. Poggi presents an extensive conceptual portrait of the state, distinguishing its early characte…

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about the ability of human beings to control anything very much, least of all through politics. This new fatali…

Ajouts à l’explication scientifique de la Bible, ainsi que l’explication de divers phénomènes «surnaturels». La mer rouge était en fait un lac de roseaux dont l’eau s’est temporairement réellement séparée pendant le vent d’est.

Guibernau offers a comparative analysis of nationalist movements in nations without states.

Социология может быть интересной, потому что она учит людей тому, как понять, как они вписываются в мир и как их воспринимают другие. Взгляд на себя и общество с социологической точки зрения помогает людям увидеть, где они соединяются с различными гр…

A unique approach to human behavior that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society Incorporating principles and findings from molecular biology, neuroscience, and psychological and sociocultural sciences, Human Behavior emplo…

Благодаря старательным усилиям искренних исследователей стало возможным отбросить большую часть религиозной, политической и идеологической лжи из существующих писаний. Пусть мысли и действия праведных людей прошлого, изложенные в этой книге, ведут бо…

Thanks to the diligent efforts of sincere researchers, it has become possible to discard most of the religious, political and ideological lies from the existing scriptures. May the thoughts and actions of the righteous people of the past set forth in…

Принято считать, что эмоции и политика – это опасное сочетание, свойственное исключительно агрессивным обществам. Марта Нуссбаум в своей книге стремится опровергнуть этот тезис и доказать, что любые политические принципы нуждаются в эмоциональной под…

A lively account of fluoridation and its discontents Since its first implementation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, public drinking water fluoridation and its attendant conflicts, controversies, and conspiracy theories serve as an object lesson i…

Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived – has changed dramatically over time. Whereas in the p…

The terms 'global' and 'civil society' have both become part of the contemporary political lexicon. In this important new book, Mary Kaldor argues that this is no coincidence and that the reinvention of civil society has to be understood in the conte…

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization. The…

In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happe…

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global transformation is not as new as our pundits and politicians pretend. The global market-place of our day may have little in common wi…

В книге обсуждается 75 наиболее острых проблем российского законодательства о выборах, референдумах и политических партиях. Приводятся результаты проведенного автором экспертного опроса по этим проблемам, комментарии экспертов и развернутые комментар…

В монографии определено и структурировано понятие "электронное государственное управление", определена возможность использования методологии международных организаций, компаний, информационно-развитых стран и стран постсоветского пространства в конкр…

The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralis…

Almost three years after the first voluntary handover of power in Russian history, this book examines Putin's management of this complex agenda, and considers how Moscow's current approach to international relations resembles and differs from that un…

In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is this due to the advance of modernity? Will a global culture supersede nationalism? In fact, the revo…