В книге обсуждаются идеи десяти важнейших мыслителей, которые подвергли сомнению и изменили сам способ осмысления политики, насилия и отношений между государствами — Фукидида, Августина, Макиавелли, Гоббса, Локка, Руссо, Клаузевица, Ленина вместе с Мао и Шмиттом. Конфликт, война и революция в политической теории обычно считались проблемами, справляться с которыми должны были устойчивые политические сообщества, ориентированные на внутреннюю политику. Но представленные здесь мыслители так или иначе признают конфликт, войну и революцию в качестве неотъемлемых характеристик человеческого опыта, проявляющихся в различных способах политического действия, и в то же время дают принципиально разные ответы на то, как к ним относиться. В книге существенно расширен канон политической теории, поскольку в ней рассматриваются подходы к международной системе, которые ставят
под вопрос представление о ее исторической неизбежности и триумфе. Опираясь не только на философию, но и на историю, теологию и право, Келли проясняет многие современные конфликты, помещая их в критический и исторический контекст.

Издание адресовано историкам, политологам, философам и студентам, изучающим общую политическую теорию и теорию международных отношений, а также всем интересующимся историей мысли, стоящей за политическими идеями и современной международной политикой

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В книге обсуждаются идеи десяти важнейших мыслителей, которые подвергли сомнению и изменили сам способ осмысления политики, насилия и отношений между государствами — Фукидида,… Развернуть 

Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the 1780s revolutions and terrorism have also challenged the idea of the state as a final arbiter of international order. This book covers ten major theorists of politics, violence and relations between states - Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, and Schmitt. Each thinker is considered in detail, not just as a placeholder in 'realist' versus moralism debates.



Conflict, war and revolution are generally seen in political thought as problems to be managed by stable domestic political communities. In different ways, all the paradigmatic thinkers here see them as inevitable dimensions of human experience, while yet manifested in different logics of acting politically and requiring different ways of handling. This book dramatically broadens the canon of political thought by considering perspectives on the international system that challenge its historical inevitability and triumph.

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Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the 1780s revolutions and terrorism have also challenged the idea… Развернуть 

Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to “trust, but verify” this successful and unique historic disarmament process. It demonstrates how two nations fundamentally at odds with one another could come together and rid the world of weapons which threatened international peace and security and, indeed, all of humanity. Those engaged were pioneers in what was to be the new frontier of superpower arms control―on-site inspection―that would define compliance verification for future treaties and agreements to come. Their work represents not just a guide to but the standard upon which all future on-site inspections will be based and judged.
Ritter traces in great detail the formation of the On-Site Inspection Agency, who was involved, and how a technologically advanced compliance verification system was installed outside the gates of one of the most sensitive military industrial facilities in the remote Soviet city of Votkinsk, nestled in the foothills of the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union. He draws upon his own personal history― occasionally hilarious, occasionally fraught with peril― as well as the recollections of the other inspectors and personnel involved, and an extensive archive of reports and memoranda relating to the work of OSIA to tell the story of how OSIA was created, and the first three years of inspection operations at the Votkinsk portal monitoring facility. The Votkinsk Portal, circa December 1988, was the wild, wild East of arms control, a place where the inspectors and inspected alike were writing the rules of the game as it played out before them.

This treaty implementation did not occur in a geopolitical vacuum. Ritter captures, on a human level, the historic changes taking place inside the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev due to the new policies of perestroika and glasnost that gripped the Soviet Union during this time, and their real and meaningful impact on the lives of the Soviet people, and the economic functioning of the Soviet nation. Much of it was for the worse.

The INF treaty was not only born of these new policies, but also helped trigger meaningful changes inside the Soviet Union due to the economic and political implications brought on by the cessation of missile production in a factory town whose lifeblood was missile production.

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Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and… Развернуть 

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.” -- ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Scorpion King: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump is a history of America’s corrosive affair with nuclear weapons, and the failed efforts to curb this radioactive ardor through arms control. The book’s title refers to the allusion by Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the American atomic bomb, to dueling scorpions when discussing the deadly nuclear rivalry between the US and Soviet Union, and signals the dangers inherent in the resumption of the perilous US drive for nuclear supremacy.Providing a vivid and gripping A-Z history of America’s deceptive use of arms control as a means of actually furthering its quest for nuclear dominance, Ritter sheds light on a contradictory US agenda little understood by the lay reader, while providing sufficient detail and context to engage the specialist.Originally published by Nation Books in 2010 under the title Dangerous Ground, this new version has been streamlined and significantly expanded to account for the failed arms control policies of the Obama administration, and the rejection of arms control as a policy during the first term of the Trump administration.The Trump administration has pulled out of one landmark arms control treaty, the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, and is threatening to let another, the 2010 New START treaty, expire. The terrifying Cuban missile crisis of 1962 demonstrated the apocalyptic folly of nuclear arsenals operating without limitation, and led to reciprocal constraints that moderated the nuclear ambitions of both the US and Soviet Union Those constraints, for the most part, no longer exist. The next missile crisis could prove terminal for humanity.Scorpion King is a book that can, and should, occupy the shelves of academic libraries, diplomats and military professionals, as well as make the reading lists of concerned citizens, given the dangerous state of US and Russian relations, now hovering on the cusp of a new and increasingly hazardous nuclear arms race. It provides a road map showing how we collectively returned to the nuclear cliff edge, and shines light on the possibility of an exit from a seemingly endless dark tunnel.Providing context for the forthcoming 2020 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Scorpion King is must reading for an imperilled world.

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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.” -- ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Scorpion King: America’s Suicidal… Развернуть 

The world stands on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon, the byproduct of a confluence of the demise of the foundational principles of arms control that had served as a check on the world’s two largest nuclear-armed nations, the United States and Russia, and the geopolitical consequences of a failing hegemon clashing with an emerging multipolar reality. Nuclear weapons, once codified as weapons of deterrence intended never to be used, have morphed into weapons that have become integrated in the warfighting plans of the nuclear-armed powers. Deterrence is no longer in vogue―warfighting and war winning are. There will be no winner in a nuclear conflict.


Critical thinking about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, the necessity of arms control, and the consequences of nuclear war has never been more urgently needed. Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024 affords the reader a comprehensive insight into these critical issues as they were unfolding, free of the circumspection and narrative management of conventional histories.
Scott Ritter has been sounding the alarm about the dangerous path the world is headed down for some time now―his book Scorpion King: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump, serves as a stark warning about the inherent dangers posed by nuclear weapons and the policies that sustain them.
Another book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, brings to life the important potential of arms control agreements in bringing the threat posed by nuclear weapons to heel by detailing his own personal experiences from 1988-1990 as a weapons inspector in the successful implementation of the INF arms control treaty with the Soviet Union.
Highway to Hell offers some of Scott Ritter’s best writing and analysis on the danger of nuclear weapons and the need for arms control, culled from dozens of articles he wrote from 2015 to 2024 on the arms race, the death of arms control, the nuclear role of China, Iran, North Korea and Israel, and the U.S. nuclear posture shift from deterrence to employment. This is where we are today: on the cusp of a nuclear conflict with Russia.
Humanity is no longer protected from nuclear war by the series of arms control treaties between the US and Russia. This book awakens the reader to the existential danger nuclear weapons pose today, and seeks to motivate them to do something about it

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Автор подробно рассматривает такие аспекты темы, как отношение вождя итальянского фашизма Бенито Муссолини к представителям еврейской национальности. В качестве источника в основном используются дневники любовницы Муссолини Кларетты Петаччи, которые она вела с 1932 года по 1937 год. Также в работе исследуется резкая перемена отношения Б. Муссолини к евреям, которое произошло после того, как был заключен союз с лидером нацистской Германии Адольфом Гитлером в 1937 году. Прослеживается связь между этими событиями, так как до 1937 года в дневниках Петаччи ничего не сказано о еврейском вопросе. Рассматривается и отношение итальянского общества к расовым законам 1938 года против евреев, которое было совсем не однозначным. В качестве аналитического метода будет использован интерпретативный поворот американского антрополога Клиффорда Гирца, который считал, что анализ культуры – дело не экспериментальное, а герменевтическое, занятое поиском значений, символов и идей. Научная новизна приведенного исследования заключается в конкретном рассмотрении еврейского вопроса Муссолини и его же изучение по воспоминаниям его любовницы Кларетты Петаччи. Исследований, посвященных именно этому вопросу и конкретно по указанному историческому источнику, не так много. Основные выводы проведенного исследования заключаются в том, что именно заключенный в 1937 году союз с Адольфом Гитлером кардинально повлиял на решение Бенито Муссолини ввести расовые законы в Италии, так как до 1937 года еврейский вопрос несильно волновал дуче. Так же автором работы были сделаны выводы касательно отрицательного отношения к антисемитским законам большей частью итальянского общества: итальянцы не приняли их по причине отсутствия в Италии антисемитизма и неприязни к евреям.

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Автор подробно рассматривает такие аспекты темы, как отношение вождя итальянского фашизма Бенито Муссолини к представителям еврейской национальности. В качестве источника в… Развернуть 

In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics.

Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies—the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors—but detested their ideas even more.

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In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught… Развернуть 

В этом проницательном и увлекательном исследовании Джеффри Робертс находит ключ к пониманию деспота и его деспотизма, спрятанный на страницах его книг. Всю жизнь Сталин был читателем с поразительной выдержкой и широким кругозором. Библиотека Сталина - "одно из лучших доступных нам средств доступа к внутренней жизни диктатора", и Джеффри Робертс делает это превосходно и познавательно. Поистине увлекательное исследование, не оставляющее сомнений в том, что Сталин относился к идеям так же серьезно, как и к политической власти как таковой.

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В этом проницательном и увлекательном исследовании Джеффри Робертс находит ключ к пониманию деспота и его деспотизма, спрятанный на страницах его книг. Всю жизнь Сталин был… Развернуть