Democracy and Democratic Transition in Historical Retrospective
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2018-1-7-23
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of a complex set of problems related to the ideas of democracy and practices of democratic transit in the mirror of Contemporary history. The author proceeds from the fact that the loss of geopolitical bipolarity has led to the intensification of efforts to form a new world order. Democracy has become its political form. At the same time, contemporary political development follows a variety of multidirectional trajectories. Democratization is not a normative, one-line and progressive process.
The author tries to analyze such basic concepts as “democracy”, “good governance”, “human rights” in relation to the non-Western societies, and to develop an adequate methodology to study the ways of social and political development of modern States. He focuses on identifying the peculiarities of governance and the functioning of power, establishes the form of the interaction between the socio-cultural environment and the political institutions in post-Communist, post-colonial and post-totalitarian States.
It is concluded that the 21st century will witness the struggle of democratic and anti-democratic trends not only on a global scale, but perhaps - in less dramatic forms - in the very citadels of traditional democracy.
Supporting agencies: RSF, project № 15-18-00135-P
About the Author
V. S. Mirzekhanov
Russian State University for the Humanities; Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World History; Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Velikhan S. Mirzekhanov, Doctor in History, professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow, 125993; bld. 32A, Leninskii av., Moscow, 119334; bld. 51/21, Nakhimovskii av., Moscow, 117997
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Mirzekhanov V.S. Democracy and Democratic Transition in Historical Retrospective. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2018;(1):7-24. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2018-1-7-23
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