Speaking before a capacity crowd ·Wednesday night in room 102 of the Seales Fine Arts Center, Louis Henkin addr~sed the problems facing a democratic nation iri "formulating foreign policy. Henkin's presentation was the first lecture of the spring season of the Tocqueville Forum: Democracy and Foreign Policy. Henkin began his lecture by ~laining what he feels is a buzzword in Ameriean politics; ...

O tema das paixões políticas “gerais e dominantes”, como colocado por Tocqueville no século XIX, ou múltiplas “estruturas socioafetivas”, analisado Pierre Ansart em seus livros A gestão Os clínicos políticas, é questão controversa interior ciências humanas. Ambos os autores buscaram identificá-las distingui-las variadas formações históricas, concedendo primazia à sua participação decisiva na co...

More than thirty years ago, in their best-selling Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah and his colleagues coined phrase “Social Science as Public Philosophy” (SSPP). They proposed it an alternative to “professional sociology” they believed had become increasingly hegemonic; too many sociologists, contended, mistakenly embraced ideal social science modelled on natural sciences. Instead, championed...

American NationalismThe phenomenon of nationalism dates back to the pioneer times Pilgrims and Founding Fathers, who established first social political relations creating origins a future developed country. Throughout past centuries term “nationalism” from an perspective was tangled various definitions sometimes official politics state. represented by faithful Protestant settlers believed stron...

The article analyzes the transformation of concepts like liberty, equality, and democracy depending on political, historical, socio-cultural context. author proposes to trace significant difference in understanding “universal” socio-political values by using classical liberal theories B. Constant A. de Tocqueville compared modern international political processes. uses comparative historical an...