Are 'modern societies' necessarily democratic societies and capitalist (or: market) societies? This is what most of the social sciences of the post-Second World War period have assumed, while only some strands of critical, often Marx-inspired approaches contested this connection. This essay...

It is nowadays unquestionable that the defense of the environmental quality and to it safeguards of the natural resources are fundamental slopes of the social development. The exploration of the common natural resources (water, air, soil, natural landscapes and humanized) it has been provoking...

Understanding Putin's Foreign and Economic policy correlation. How Russia uses oil as a weapon.From Russian gestures towards Washington right after 9/11, which almost bordered on an alliance formation, to the Russian tanks rolling into Georgia in the summer of 2008, the timeframe between 2001...

Understanding today’s EU requires a prism which is attentive to the interactions between the polity-building and world-inhabiting facets of the emerging polity. We cannot separate developing a theory of the EU as a polity from determining its placement in the world. Norms of cooperation become...