Extreme Politics: on Some Approaches to the Definition of the Category and Boundaries of the Phenomenon

• Main Authors: M G Anokhin, O E Grishin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2010-06-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Political Science
• Subjects: экстремальная политика; экстремальные условия; экстремальные ситуации; технологии принятия политических решений
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/8978

The article is dedicated to the actual and underdeveloped problem of defining «extreme politics». The authors suppose that «extreme politics» is a special kind of human activities. Extreme politics is defined by the authors as an activity conducted for power in extreme conditions (situations) tied with insufficiency of different resources, lack of time for analysis and long-term prognosis of political situation and political decision-making, deficit of actual information and its free circulation, dominance of authoritative leaders-competitors.