Bøger af Donald R. Kelley

The world is becoming more complex, with increasing possibilities for conflict over national rivalries, economic competition, and cultural and ideological fault lines. Understanding a Changing World offers a structured and theoretically grounded way to think about the forces that animate change and the alternative futures they may create.

This is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine such topics as the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform and the composition, organisation, staffing and procedures of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet.

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In this collection, top scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet studies convene to explore communism's aftermath. They consider state building and consitutionalism; the transition to market capitalism and democracy across Eastern Europe; the political development of Muslim states; the complex and differential developments of electoral systems; the risks and opportunities of nationalism; and new political and economic activities in Russia, from corruption to contracts. Editor Donald Kelley introduces the volume with a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical findings of the volume, and his brief chapter introductions place each contribution in relation to the other essays and to larger debates on democratization.

A critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late-18th century. The author focuses on persistent themes and methodology: myth; national origins; chronology; language; rhetoric; translation; and historical method and criticism.

A collection of essays from some of the world's leading intellectual historians, representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy, intellect, science and music.

An in-depth look at the Russian presidency as a case study of institution building within the context of a mixed presidential-parliamentary regime.

This collection of essays takes the study of history as a starting point, and extends the exploration into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought - confronting some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences, and issues of intellectual, cultural, and political history.

This book examines not the exhaustion but the generation of sentiments, values, ideals, justifications and actions which underlie one spectacular case of profound intellectual and social change: The Protestant Reformation. A case study in the 'beginning of ideology', this book is also a multi-levelled interpretation of modern Europe's first age of revolution.