политология
Русские беседы: уходящая натура
Андрей Тесля
Русский XIX век значим для нас сегодняшних по меньшей мере тем, что именно в это время – в спорах и беседах, во взаимном понимании или непонимании – выработались тот общественный язык и та система образов и представлений, которыми мы, вольно или...
Становление постиндустриальной цивилизации: от цифровизации до варварства. Монография
Юлий Анатольевич Нисневич
Монография посвящена анализу наступившей эпохи перехода человечества к постиндустриальной цивилизации. Это время рождения и бурного подъема новых технологий, связывающих с помощью Всемирной паутины, социальных сетей и мессенджеров сотни...
Путин и враги народа
Владимир Бушин
Как пишет в этой книге Владимир Бушин, «бесчисленные орды доверенных лиц Вельзевула вот уже сколько годов заняты тем, чтобы извратить, изгадить, опошлить нашу историю и нашу культуру». Президент Путин объявил им битву, но насколько она успешна?...
«Китайский синдром» Путина. Прорыв или утопия
Валентин Юрьевич Катасонов
Валентин Юрьевич Катасонов – доктор экономических наук, публицист, автор нескольких десятков книг, в которых показываются скрытые механизмы финансовых систем России и мира. В своей новой книге В. Ю. Катасонов пишет о политике В. В. Путина,...
Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
Ulrich Beck
Translated by Ciaran Cronin. The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are...
The Political Power of Global Corporations
John Mikler
We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions,...
International Social Work Policy and Practice
Carolyn Tice J.
Authoritative coverage of social work policy and practice from a global perspective In order for social and economic justice to flourish globally, a greater understanding of practice and policy efforts from around the world is essential for...
Social Justice in a Global Age
Olaf Cramme
What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our...
Castles of our Conscience
William Staples G.
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and...
Crime and Social Policy
Hazel Kemshall
Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of...
Gorbachev's Gamble
Andrei Grachev
Gorbachev s Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects of Gorbachev s perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows that the radical transformation of Soviet...
China and India
Chris Ogden
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 behave like major Western entities or like something altogether...
Preventing Deadly Conflict
I. Zartman William
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 management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the...
Political Justice
Otfried Hoffe
Otfried H?ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today. In this major work, already a classic in continental Europe, he re-examines philosophical discourse on justice – from Classical Greece to the present day. H?ffe...
Thomas More
Joanne Paul
Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a...
Organization Practice
Mary O'Connor Katherine
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in...
Violence
Richard Bernstein J.
We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence – another murder, another killing spree...
Power
John Scott
This far-reaching study gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. The concept of power is outlined, and its main dimensions are explored through consideration of various facets – command,...
Dictatorship
Carl Schmitt
Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of...
The Turbulence of Migration
Nikos Papastergiadis
This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe.
The New Conservatism
Jurgen Habermas
J?rgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly writings on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences. The New Conservatism brings to light another side of Habermas's work, showing him to be an incisive commentator on a wide range of...
What Is Globalization?
Ulrich Beck
This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.
Shadow Sovereigns
Susan George
Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour...
Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists
Colin Beck J.
Terrorism, mass uprisings, and political extremism are in the news every day. It is no coincidence that these phenomena come together at the beginning of a new era. Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists provides a comprehensive survey of the...
Green Utopias
Lisa Garforth
Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about...
What is Environmental History?
J. Hughes Donald
What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal...
Безопасность: политический и социальный аспекты
В. А. Рукинов
Книга издается к юбилею В. А. Рукинова и включает в себя его исследования последних лет. Она затрагивает разнообразные вопросы, связанные с политической и социальной безопасностью в нашей стране и в мире, поскольку в настоящее время интерес к...
Катынь: СС+НКВД – шляхта
Александр Черенов
Роман – в жанре исторической альтернативы, но на строго документальной основе и не в интерпретации наследников польских панов и отечественных «либералов». Альтернативная точка зрения в этом сомнительном деле имеет право на существование – вместе...
Некоторые проблемы разоружения. Хроника последних десятилетий
Андрей Тихомиров
Сколько существует человечество, столько и борется человек с человеком за «место под Солнцем», однако, если в древности, это угрожало только ему самому и экосистеме, то теперь от этого зависит весь окружающий мир, ведь человек изобрел атомную...
Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
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Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions A Strengths-Based Approach «Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the...
Child Protection Assessment Following Serious Injuries to Infants
Peter Dale
This book is especially welcome because of the scholarship and thoughtfulness evident throughout. —Dr Peter Reder, Child Psychiatrist, London How do child protection professionals and courts make judgments on whether serious injuries to infants...
Why We're Losing the War on Terror
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The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new...
What's Wrong with the Europe Union and How to Fix It
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The European Union seems incapable of undertaking economic reforms and defining its place in the world. Public apathy towards the EU is also increasing, as citizens feel isolated from the institutions in Brussels and see no way to influence...
Young Men Who Have Sexually Abused
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Young men who sexually abuse is a subject of increasing concern amongst professionals. This important volume explores the current theoretical and practice issues involved in working therapeutically with young men who have sexually abused....
Gender and Child Welfare in Society
Brid Featherstone
Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in children's development Draws on current developments in thinking about gender relations Offers an...
What Do We Know About Globalization?
Guillermo de la Dehesa
What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty & Income Distribution examines the two fundamental arguments that are often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality and that it increases poverty. A lively and accessible...
Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism
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Preparedness is the best weapon against terrorism Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel gives a detailed explanation of how to implement preventive and/or protective measures to...
Europe in the Global Age
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Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over...
Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World
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This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized groups within developing countries, it shows how these groups have been stimulated into action by...
Democracy in the Developing World
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Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations to one-party dictatorships. Over the past...
Political Theory in Modern Germany
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This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany. It includes chapters on the works of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann....
Freedom of Religion and the Secular State
Russell Blackford
Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment...
The Third Way and its Critics
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The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world. Political leaders, in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America claim to be following its principles. Yet the notion has also attracted much criticism....
Democracy and the Global Order
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This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
Political Theory and the Modern State
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This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation,...
Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy
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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...
Prime Ministers and the Media
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This book looks at the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication. A timely examination of the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication. Original in scope,...
Development, Security and Unending War
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According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and...
The Ethics of War and Peace
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This book presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging ethical aspects of war and peace. In a fair-minded and engaging analysis, Nigel Dower introduces the different ethical theories in traditional and...
Women and Politics in Latin America
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This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social...
