China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and...
It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this...
Учебное пособие охватывает все основные темы курса политологии: зарождение и историю развития политических идей и политических идеологий, современное состояние политической науки,...
Цель учебника — дать студентам представление о состоянии современных международных отношений, претерпевающих глубокую трансформацию. Рассматриваются предмет и методы исследования м...
Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through ma...
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 extensi...
В книге изложены основные подходы к государственной/публичной политике и управлению, которые определяют теорию и практику деятельности государственных и муниципальных органов власт...
The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably...
In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and...
Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is aimed at understanding how vi...