political science and international relations(155)

Geopolitika ropy

The first oil crisis, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the American intervention in Iraq are all inseparably linked to oil. Employing a g...

Morální základy politiky

This book, written by Ian Shapiro, a contemporary American political theorist, examines the legitimacy of political power. The scholar be...

Znetvořená demokracie

This book is a contribution to the discussion concerning the current crisis of democracy and possible solutions. The scholar approaches t...

Mínění, pravda a lid

Fighting Terrorism: Surveillance and Targeted Killing in Post-9/11 World

The war on terror, launched by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been waged inside as well as outside the U.S. borders. Perception of threa...

Diskursivní teorie liberální demokracie

This selection of texts contains Jürgen Habermas’s papers and supplementary texts on his discursive political and legal theory on the dem...

Bylo to na věčné časy, dokud to neskončilo

The collapse of socialism was absolutely unexpected for the inhabitants of the Soviet Union, but at the same time, it was absolutely inev...

Poslední sovětská generace

Příběh ruské geopolitiky

Throughout history, Russian thinkers, geographers and statesmen have come with visions of the role and place of their great country in ci...

Jak se ruská myšlenka zmocnila více než šestiny světa

České probuzení z amerického snu

This book brings a new perspective of the United States, which arose from the necessity to overcome both uncritically admiring as well as...

Proč a jak se v České republice zabývat Spojenými státy

Kdo vládne světu?

This most recent book by Noam Chomsky, well-known intellectual, philosopher and activist, presents a thorough analysis of the current int...

Temný kontinent

Mark Mazower’s Europe is not a continent of old countries and nations, but in many respects, it is very new and in the course of the 20th...

Evropa ve 20. století

Normalizační festival

Normalization Festival is a monograph focusing on the period of late socialism in Czechoslovakia, particularly on the late socialist publ...

Socialistické paradoxy a postsocialistické korekce

Antropologie turismu

"Anthropology of tourism" is a relatively new sub-discipline and thematic area of socio-cultural anthropology, which is being gradually e...