A State as Civilisation and Political Theory

... collapse of the Soviet Union briefly made ideas of integration into the liberal community the central thought process governing Russia's foreign policy. This was reflected in Mikhail Gorbachev's "new thinking" and doctrinal documents of the early ... ... 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 ...