Аннотация: Professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Political Sciences I.I. Kuznetsov reviews the book of Herfried Münkler “Imperii: Logika gospodstva nad mirom – ot Drevnego Rima i do SShA”/Per. s nem L.V. Lannika pod red. T.A. Grablevskoi; komment. i vstup. st. L.V. Lannika – M.: Kuchkovo pole, 2015. – 400 s (“Empires: The Logic of World Supremacy – from Ancient Rome to the USA”). The methodology of the research comprises the systems approach, the structural-functional and comparative-political approaches, the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction and observation. The monograph of Prof. Münkler is a very interesting study of the complicated political issue of the fate of empires in the modern world. The author reasonably claims that the imperial form of government had maintained peaceful mutually-beneficial coexistence of various peoples and ethnic groups of different cultures, values and political traditions within a single state for a very long period of human history. Imperial government was based on the principle of “unity in diversity” which didn’t suppress the identity of small nations, but helped them preserve it. Nowadays, in the complicated conditions of the global instability intensification, the imperial form of organization of multinational states again becomes actual and competitive even in comparison with another, more widespread, form – federalism. 

Ключевые слова: diplomacy, international relations, U.S. foreign policy, world politics, global information space, geopolitics, interests, state, security, USA

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References (transliteration):
Kennedy P. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000.-L.: Fontana Press, 1989.
Starobin P. After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age. Viking Adult, 2009.
Imperiya i natsiya v zerkale istoricheskoy pamyati: Sbornik statey. M.: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2011;
Liven D. Rossiyskaya imperiya i ee vragi s XVI veka do nashikh dney. M.: Evropa, 2007
Billington Dzh. Kh. Ikona i topor. Opyt istolkovaniya istorii russkoy kul'tury. M.: Izd-vo «Rudomino». 2001
Todd E. Pax Americana-nachalo kontsa. M.: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2004
B'yukenen P. Dzh. Smert' Zapada. M.: OOO Izdatel'stvo AST, 2003
Khardt M., Negri A. Imperiya / Per.s angl., pod. red. G.V. Kamenskoy, M.S. Fetisova. M.: Praksis, 2004.
Kaspe S.I. Imperiya i modernizatsiya. Obshchaya model' i rossiyskaya spetsifika. M., ROSSPEN, 2001
Utkin A.I. Amerikanskaya imperiya. M., Eksmo; 2003
Gaydar E.T. Gibel' imperii. Uroki dlya sovremennoy Rossii. M., ROSSPEN, 2006
Gavrov S.N. Modernizatsiya vo imya imperii. M.: Editorial URSS, 2010.
Carothers Th. U.S. Democracy Promotion During and After Bush / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Washington, 2007. P. 19–20.
http://encyclopedia.mil.ru/encyclopedia/dictionary/details.htm?id=13703@morfDictionary.
Ignatieff M. Empire lite. Nation-building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. London, Vintage, 2003
Samuels K. State-building and Constitutional Design after Conflict // IPA REPORT. 2006. June. 23 p. [Elektronnyy resurs]. URL: http://www.odi.org.uk/events/¬states_06/-18thmay/presentations/20samuels.pdf
Samuels K. Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Constitution-Making // Chicago Journal of International Law. 2006. Winter. Vol. 6. №. 2. P. 1–19
Counterinsurgency and constitutional design // Harvard Law Review. 2008. Vol. 121. P. 1622–1643
Dobbins J. et al. America’s Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq. Santa Monica: RAND, 2003
Dobbins J., Jones S.G., Srane K., Degrasse B.C. The beginner’s guide to nation-building. Santa Monica: RAND, National Security Research Division, 2007.
Fergyuson N. Imperiya. Chem sovremennyy mir obyazan Britanii. M.: Astrel': CORPUS, 2013; On zhe. Tsivilizatsiya: chem Zapad otlichaetsya ot ostal'nogo mira / Per. s angl. K. Bandurovskogo. M.: AST: CORPUS, 2014.
Manoylo A.V. Zakat Pax Americana. // Strategiya Rossii. 2015. №11. S. 23-28.
Raykhlin E.I. Avraam Linkol'n i vtoraya amerikanskaya revolyutsiya // Mirovaya politika. - 2014. - 2. - C. 62 - 85. DOI: 10.7256/2409-8671.2014.2.9464. URL: http://www.e-notabene.ru/wi/article_9464.html