Original title: Of Paradise and power. America and Europe in the New World Order. It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world—Of Paradise and Power announces a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Europe. Robert Kagan begins this illuminating essay by laying out the general...

В книге анализируется политическая ситуация в Казахстане в постсоветский период, даны сравнительные характеристики развития России и Казахстана в последнее десятилетие, рекомендации по дальнейшему сотрудничеству между двумя странами.

The author offers his analysis of the Chechen crisis and false stereotypes of Russian democracy.

The author examines the changing geopolitical centers of power and Russia's role in this new order.

The author is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His book is based on research materials compiled on the current problems of Russia's international image within a historical and contemporary context.

The author served as the first official Ambassador of the USSR and later the Russian Federation to the Vatican. He served from 1990-1995.

The author examines the questions revolving around the development of a new ocean concept and program given the new changes in Russia's geopolitical position and the negative impacts on its navel potential. He examine the issues of trade and port infrastructure, bio-resources, the Russian continental shelf and the mineral resources under Russian jurisdiction and finally military/naval...

The book presents a complex analysis of the system of government control in Russia. The authors hold, that under the conditions of a not sufficiently developed civil society, social control should be supplemented by and independent governmental controler.

The book represents a study of the problems facing Russia: globalization, forming a civil society and the deep and wide transformative processes currently underway in the country.