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Название: Русская литература и философия
Автор: Тахо-Годи Е.А. (отв. ред.)
Издательство: М.: Водолей
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 600
Размер: 17 mb
Язык: Русский

Настоящий коллективный труд посвящен проблеме взаимодействия русской литературы и философии, приобретшей особую актуальность в последние десятилетия. В коллективной монографии дается широкая панорама истории взаимоотношения двух важнейших составляющих русской культуры – литературы и философии – на протяжении целого столетия – от первой половины XIX века до первой половины XX века.

Название: Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, And Institutional Design
Автор: Paul D'Anieri
Издательство: M.E. Sharpe
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 313
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter of 2004-05 as the colorful banners of the Orange Revolution unfurled against the snowy backdrop of Kyiv, signaling the bright promise of democratic rebirth. But is that what is really happening in Ukraine? In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. The peaceful transfer of power from Leonid Kravchuk to Leonid Kuchma in the election of 1994, followed by the adoption of a western-style democratic constitution in 1996, seemed to complete the picture. But the Kuchma presidency was soon clouded by dark rumors of corruption and even political murder, and by 2004 the country was in full-blown political crisis. A three-stage presidential contest was ultimately won by Victor Yushchenko, who took office in 2005 and appointed Yulia Tymoshenko as premier; but the turmoil was far from over. The new government quickly faltered and splintered. This introduction to Ukrainian politics looks beyond these dramatic events and compelling personalities to identify the actual play of power in Ukraine and the operation of its political system. The author seeks to explain how it is that, after each new beginning, power politics has trumped democratic institution-building in Ukraine, as in so many other post-Soviet states. What is really at work here, and how can Ukraine break the cycle of hope and disillusionment?

Название: The Humanitarian Conscience: Caring for Others in the Age of Terror
Автор: W. R. Smyser
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 322
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

umanitarian action has become an omnipresent element in international affairs. It now shapes our world and will have an increasingly important impact on the way decisions are made in international crises. W. R. Smyser looks at the history of humanitarian activity and its growth since the horrors of World War II, tracing its early links to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the present day, when human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch are as influential as modern nation states in influencing the course of international events. This is a monumental portrait of the way in which individuals who are not officially part of any govern-ment work to alleviate human suffering and physical destruc-tion around the world. It is also a call to arms at a time when humanitarian efforts are frequently missing or simply misguided.

Название: Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future
Автор: Michael Krepon
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 307
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a dangerous course. During the Cold War, Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, facilitated strategic arms control. Now that the Cold War has been replaced by asymmetric warfare, treaties based on nuclear overkill and national vulnerability are outdated and must be adapted to a far different world. A new strategic concept of Cooperative Threat Reduction is needed to replace MAD. A balance is needed that combines military might with strengthened treaty regimes.

Название: The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions
Автор: Andrew E. Barshay
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 348
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of ''development'' or ''rationalization'' have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.

Название: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Автор: Lawrence Otis Graham
Издательство: Harper Perennial
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 458
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.

Название: Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century
Автор: Sven Steinmo, Jeffrey Kopstein
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 256
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This book explores the forces pushing America away from its democratic friends and neighbors. It examines the underlying forces shaping the democratic states of the West. Individual chapters pose questions such as: Why is religion so powerful in America? How will the flow of immigration shape politics across the West? Why is Europe rejecting America's version of capitalism? How is the media changing in Europe and America? Why are ''Conservatives'' so different on each side of the Atlantic? And, finally, what do these competing forces portend for the future of the transatlantic relationship?

Название: National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State, and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Автор: Douglas W. Blum
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 236
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Is globalization in danger of diluting national identities and 'transnationalizing' cultures? How can societies attempt to manage globalization and become developed while maintaining a viable national identity? In a study of three globalizing states and cities in post-Soviet Eurasia - Russia (Astrakhan), Kazakhstan (Almaty), and Azerbaijan (Baku) - Douglas W. Blum provides an empirical examination of national identity formation, exploring how cultures, particularly youth cultures, have been affected by global forces. Blum argues that social discourse regarding youth cultural trends - coupled with official and non-official approaches to youth policy - complement patterns of state-society relations and modes of response to globalization. His findings show that the nations studied have embraced certain aspects of modernity and liberalism, while rejecting others, but have also reasserted the place of national traditions.

Название: Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
Автор: Ylva Hernlund, Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan
Издательство: Rutgers University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 387
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Female ''circumcision'' or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, ''Transcultural Bodies'' provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. The contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.

Название: After the White House: Former Presidents as Private Citizens
Автор: Max J. Skidmore
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 207
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

hat do you do with yourself after holding the most powerful office in the world? A relatively young man, Bill Clinton probably has many years to come up with his own answers to this question. After the White House is the first book to take a systematic look at the post-presidential careers of Clinton and his prede-cessors. Thirty-two completed their terms. Four became presidential candidates again (one was even elected), two served in Congress, one accepted election to the Confederate Congress, and one became Chief Justice. Clinton has the unique distinction of his first lady becoming a United States senator. Jefferson created the University of Virginia. Teddy Roosevelt embarked on an African safari upon leaving office. Many remained influential figures; others were ostracized when political rivals succeeded them (like Hoover during FDR's terms). Rich with anecdotes, After the White House provides an entertaining and unique per-spec-tive on the lives of presidents.