Political Science in Search of New Approaches: Introducing the Issue

Abstract

The editorial board introduces the issue devoted to the problem which occurred as a result of the exhausting traditional heuristic potential of political knowledge, including concepts, theoretical and methodological approaches, and ideological emphasis. The changing traditional theoretical framework questions the legitimacy of traditional political practices, the legitimacy of institutions, goals and subjects of the political process. Based on the ideas of I. Wallerstein, we are making attempts to “feel the elephant” of political reflection on the dramatically changing political reality.

Keywords

• political theory
• methodology of political science
• scientific approach
• civilizational approach
• the end of the western-centrist linear meta-narrative