IN SEARCH FOR NEW LEGITIMACY
We are talking about fundamental global events. They are based on the problems that the world will continue to face in the 21st century. Change in the demographic picture of the world and the emergence of a global society are of crucial importance here. A quick growth in population, and a growth in the number of young people, was observed in the countries now experiencing such complicated events. |
30 марта 2011
LEVIATHAN IS AN IMAGE OF THE PAST
I am afraid there has been no dramatic change or alteration in the synthesis of societies and in their relation to power structures, or ruling strata, elites etc. Legitimation of power is still the central issue and it is based on a societal consensus which of course is by no means static or fixed. |
30 марта 2011
DESIRE TO SAVE STATESMANSHIP
Reflections as to why loyalty is not currently popular depend on what should be viewed as the keyword in this word-combination. If the keyword in this discussion is ‘popular’, then we should remember that, at the beginning of this century, such a concept really did exist. At the same time, the words ‘Putin’ and ‘president’ became somewhat like a brand, and it was not only the loyalists who used this brand for their own ends. |
30 марта 2011
