This is one of the best foreign political science textbooks. He introduces the reader as fully as possible into the problems of modern politics and political science. Much attention is paid to globalization, the movements of feminism and the "greens," the rise of ethnosocialism. The textbook also considers traditional approaches to discipline, as well as the concepts and ideas of the classics of political thought - Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Mill, etc. The book has five parts: "Political Theories," "Nations and Globalization," "Political Interaction," "Mechanisms of Public Administration," "Politics and the Functioning of Political Systems."