Today, Russian imperialism is undergoing a new phase of its transformation, moving from covert interference in the internal affairs sovereign states to open territorial expansion. Its primary task plans seize state Ukraine through military aggression, forced inoculation own model world order and return space single "Russian world". The former post-Soviet Baltic republics, Belarus, Moldova, Geor...

without an ascertainable and localizable lesion. The historically familiar image of young Sigmund Freud's mentor, Theodor Meynert, contemptuously dismissing such cases as "mere hysteria" at the Vienna Medical School captures this belief. Yet, from his research, Hodgkiss finds that in point of fact a rich, varied, and clinically astute body of observation and theorization about this phenomenon r...

Mill’s political and his international theory rest on a philosophy of history drawn in turn from the experience of nineteenth century imperialism. And yet, this philosophy of history remains unexamined in Political Theory and International Relations (IR) alike, largely because of the peculiar division of labour between the two disciplines. In this article I will argue that this omission results...

In recent years, a number of countries have adopted versions of the ‘Australian’ electoral system of preferential voting for both national and sub-national elections. This article examines the diffusion of preferential voting systems around the world. It distinguishes between various types of preferential voting manifested in both majoritarian (eg alternative vote) and proportional (eg single t...

its methodology (no grappling here with Foucault or the social construction ofdisease) and none the worse for that. Its chronological span is complete (chapter I is entitled 'Les Buveurs Antiques'), and though the focus becomes increasingly medical as we approach the present, the attitudes of preachers, moralists, and governments are not neglected. For the Anglo-Saxon reader, it is particularly...