TATIANA ALEKSEEVA is Head of the Department of Political Theory at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Formerly the Head of the Department of Political Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, she writes on contractarian political philosophy and international relations.WILLIAM GAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He specializes in war and peace studies (in which he has published extensively), social and political philosophy (particularly Russia), and continental philosophy. He is an Associate Editor of VIBS and the Editor of its Special Series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy.

• William GAY: Editorial ForewordJack PERRY: PrefaceReginald RAYMER: Introduction Current Trends in Russian and American Political TheoryPART ONE DEMOCRACY: VALUES and VICES ONE Tatiana ALEKSEEVA: Living in the World of a “Unipolar System”: Alternatives and TrendsTWO Robert MUNDT: Corruption and DemocracyTHREE Abdusalam GUSEINOV: Ethics and Democracy: On the Danger ofMoral DemagogueryFOUR Alan WOOLFOLK: Democracy, Patriotism, and Virtue: Notes Toward a Cultural Theory of Nations andNationalismPART TWO CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA FIVE Vyacheslav STIOPIN: Democratic Reforms in Russia: The Specific Social TransformationSIX Nicholas CASTE: Democracy, Information, and the Russian ExperimentSEVEN Konstantin ZUEV: Reflections on Some Problems in Russia’s TransformationPART THREE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMICS EIGHT Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Charles KAPLAN: The American Dream: Democracy orMeritocracy?NINE Ruben APRESSYAN: Civil Society and Civil ParticipationTEN William GAY: Economic Democracy: The FinalFrontierBibliography About the Authors Index

TATIANA ALEKSEEVA is Head of the Department of Political Theory at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Formerly the Head of the Department of Political Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, she writes on contractarian political philosophy and international relations.WILLIAM GAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He specializes in war and peace studies (in which he has published extensively), social and political philosophy (particularly Russia), and continental philosophy. He is an Associate Editor of VIBS and the Editor of its Special Series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy.

• William GAY: Editorial ForewordJack PERRY: PrefaceReginald RAYMER: Introduction Current Trends in Russian and American Political TheoryPART ONE DEMOCRACY: VALUES and VICES ONE Tatiana ALEKSEEVA: Living in the World of a “Unipolar System”: Alternatives and TrendsTWO Robert MUNDT: Corruption and DemocracyTHREE Abdusalam GUSEINOV: Ethics and Democracy: On the Danger ofMoral DemagogueryFOUR Alan WOOLFOLK: Democracy, Patriotism, and Virtue: Notes Toward a Cultural Theory of Nations andNationalismPART TWO CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA FIVE Vyacheslav STIOPIN: Democratic Reforms in Russia: The Specific Social TransformationSIX Nicholas CASTE: Democracy, Information, and the Russian ExperimentSEVEN Konstantin ZUEV: Reflections on Some Problems in Russia’s TransformationPART THREE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMICS EIGHT Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Charles KAPLAN: The American Dream: Democracy orMeritocracy?NINE Ruben APRESSYAN: Civil Society and Civil ParticipationTEN William GAY: Economic Democracy: The FinalFrontierBibliography About the Authors Index

TATIANA ALEKSEEVA is Head of the Department of Political Theory at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Formerly the Head of the Department of Political Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, she writes on contractarian political philosophy and international relations.WILLIAM GAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He specializes in war and peace studies (in which he has published extensively), social and political philosophy (particularly Russia), and continental philosophy. He is an Associate Editor of VIBS and the Editor of its Special Series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy.

• William GAY: Editorial ForewordJack PERRY: PrefaceReginald RAYMER: Introduction Current Trends in Russian and American Political TheoryPART ONE DEMOCRACY: VALUES and VICES ONE Tatiana ALEKSEEVA: Living in the World of a “Unipolar System”: Alternatives and TrendsTWO Robert MUNDT: Corruption and DemocracyTHREE Abdusalam GUSEINOV: Ethics and Democracy: On the Danger ofMoral DemagogueryFOUR Alan WOOLFOLK: Democracy, Patriotism, and Virtue: Notes Toward a Cultural Theory of Nations andNationalismPART TWO CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA FIVE Vyacheslav STIOPIN: Democratic Reforms in Russia: The Specific Social TransformationSIX Nicholas CASTE: Democracy, Information, and the Russian ExperimentSEVEN Konstantin ZUEV: Reflections on Some Problems in Russia’s TransformationPART THREE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMICS EIGHT Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Charles KAPLAN: The American Dream: Democracy orMeritocracy?NINE Ruben APRESSYAN: Civil Society and Civil ParticipationTEN William GAY: Economic Democracy: The FinalFrontierBibliography About the Authors Index