Being a hegemonic doctrine in the world politics, “democracy” does several things at the same time: it legitimizes the status quo of parliamentary republic, allows for imperialist interventions of NATO and US into affairs of periphery countries, and eventually provokes movements for “real” democracy, such as the global wave of protests in 2011-2012.

Routledge published a book edited by Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly, and Nikolai Vakhtin. Graduates of the EUSP Anthropology Department are present among the authors.