A State as Civilisation and Political Theory

... Kortunov: Vodka or Cognac: Two Tastes of Global Politics The concept of civilisation has long appeared on the "radar" of political theory. For liberalism and socialism, civilisation is determined by the measure of the dominance of the human mind. ... ... civilised societies and undeveloped uncivilised ones, with a large grey area between them. There was another approach, considering civilisations as large communities, united within themselves by spiritual and material culture and by no means always reduced ...