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Niniejszy artykuł zarysowuje historię niemieckiej nauki o polityce i jej stan obecny. Zawiera porównanie współczesnych kierunków politologicznych oferowanych przez trzy najlepiej oceniane w niemieckich rankingach uniwersytety – Uniwersytet Poczdamski, Wolny Uniwersytet Berliński i Uniwersytet Humboldta w Berlinie. Przedstawia strukturę studiów politologicznych, rodzaj oferowanych kursów oraz literaturę wykorzystywaną podczas nauczania. ; This paper presents the history of German political science and its current status. It contains a comparison of modern Political Science majors offered by the three top rated universities in German rankings – the University of Potsdam, Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University. It outlines the structure of political science studies, the type of courses offered and the literature used during teaching.

Certain historians are inclined to view the political awakening of Asia and Africa as part of an ongoing, world-wide, social revolution, previously inaugurated in Europe and America. In that perspective, colonial nationalism and its aftermath appear to involve primarily another 'revolt of the masses', another rising of the 'great uwashed', another 'search for status' by the lower classes of the world.

Over the past decades, it has become more and more obvious that ongoing globalisation processes have substantial impacts on the natural environment. Studies reveal that intensified global economic relations have caused or accelerated dramatic changes in the Earth system, defined as the sum of our planet's interacting physical, chemical, biological and human processes (Schellnhuber et al. 2004). Climate change, biodiversity loss, disrupted biogeochemical cycles, and land degradation are often cited as emblematic problems of global environmental change (Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015). In this context, the term Anthropocene has lately received widespread attention and gained some prominence in the academic literature.

Der Band diskutiert und erweitert den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu militärischen Interventionen. Hierbei werden sowohl Fragen der Legitimität von Interventionen als auch ihrer Durchführung sowie spezifischer Akteure betrachtet. Der Band gliedert sich in drei bewusst interdisziplinär angelegte Teile mit jeweils eigenem thematischem Schwerpunkt. Teil I widmet sich der Frage, wann eine Intervention legitim ist und, so sie erfolgt, wie sie durchgeführt werden sollte. Teil II geht darauf aufbauend der Frage nach, ob, und wenn ja, warum die hohen Hürden, die für Interventionen bestehen, eine Berechtigung haben. Teil III schließlich stellt die Frage nach relevanten Akteuren und danach, wer intervenieren sollte sowie welche Bevölkerungsgruppen nach Ende des Konflikts in den Wiederaufbau einbezogen werden sollten.Mit Beiträgen vonChristopher Beuter, Enrico Fels, Anna Goppel, Bob Sugeng Hadiwinata, Matthias Heise, Goetz Herrmann, Zarifa Mamedova, Christian Neuhäuser, Kathrin Rucktäschel, Steve Schlegel, Reinhold Schmücker, Chrisoph Schuck, Uwe Steinhoff, Andreas Vasilache, Sylvia Yazid.

David Lyons challenges us to confront grave injustices committed in the United States, from the colonists' encroachments on Indian lands to slavery and the legacy of racism. He calls upon legal and political theorists to take these social wrongs seriously in their approaches to moral obligation under law and the justification of civil disobedience

Re-linking deliberative theory with empirical political science has become a major theme in the discipline. But when philosophical concepts are to be integrated into positive political science, researchers confront both theoretical and methodological challenges. Focusing on deliberative democracy, a major theoretical challenge is the practical implementation of deliberative ideals. Comparative scholars have explored institutional contexts that favour deliberation, but they have largely neglected actor-centric and cultural variables that might affect deliberative quality as well. Focusing on legislatures in Switzerland and Germany, we show that political institutions as well as partisan strategies and status strongly affect deliberative action, while the effects of culture are less clear. Methodologically, one (frequently neglected) challenge concerns the appropriate statistical tools with which to study deliberation. On the one hand, analysing deliberative processes is demanding and time consuming; hence we tend to have only few and non-randomly selected cases at the group or context level. In addition, the real world of deliberation presents us with a complex matrix of cross-classified speakers. We demonstrate that Bayesian multi-level modelling provides an elegant way to tackle these methodological problems.

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekv005 ; A crucial dimension of bridging the gap between international affairs scholarship and policymaking is the generation of substantive, policyrelevant research programs. We describe the use of scenario analysis as a valuable experiential and problem-based technique for developing innovative research ideas in political science. We focus especially on the scholarly and pedagogical potential of scenarios for doctoral students by describing the structured use of scenarios at the annual New Era Foreign Policy Conference. The features of scenario analysis that commend its use to policymakers also make it well suited to helping political scientists generate policy-relevant research programs. Scenarios are plausible and textured stories that help imagine how the future political-economic world could be different from the past in a manner that highlights policy challenges. Scenario analysis can throw into sharp relief overlooked, yet pressing questions in international affairs that demand focused investigation. In turn, the search for answers can shape important research programs geared toward providing actionable clarity in understanding contemporary global issues and challenges.

Publication date based on date received. ; "Mr. Bradford, presently completing his degree in political science., prepared this report." ; Mode of access: Internet.

Let me begin with a simple theme, repentance, and a simple message: repent from complacency in the practice and defense of social science history (SSH). I say this because I do not see social science historians meeting three major challenges that must be overcome if the larger, collective enterprise is to survive with the same vitality it had a decade ago. Those challenges are, first, to bring social theory forcefully back into historical research; second, to take formal methods to a new, higher level; and, third, to seek to train the next generation of social science historians in the theory and methods they will need in the next century.

Biological approaches to politics have witnessed the emergence of two major strands of research that are related but quite distinct: an "Adaptationist" approach and a "Heritability" approach. The former explains behavior as the product of complex psychological adaptations designed by natural selection that all humans share, while the latter explains behavior as a consequence of heritable genetic differences between individuals. Importantly, neither approach excludes environmental factors from a causal role in generating behavior. Heritability approaches are more familiar to political scientists, and one well‐known example is behavior genetics, as exemplified in twin study research. However, Adaptationist approaches, such as evolutionary psychology, remain theoretically underdeveloped in political science. We therefore provide a detailed outline of the theoretical framework of evolutionary psychology, and we explore its application toward the study of political behavior—an endeavor we label Evolutionary Political Science.

The article is dedicated to the comparative content-analysis of the two excerpts, considering foreign political leadership theories for the Russian readers and researches and related to the different stages of Soviet and Russian political science development. There are also quotative and quotative analyses of the theories provided by the author. ; Статья посвящена сравнительному контент-анализу двух отрывков, представляющих зарубежные теории политического лидерства отечественному читателю и исследователю и относящихся к различным периодам развития советской и российской политологии. Также приводится проведенный автором сравнительный качественный и количественный анализ рассмотренных зарубежных теорий.