V uchebnom posobii rassmatrivayutsya naibolee vazhnye problemy sovremennoy politicheskoy nauki, raskryvaetsya soderzhanie takikh ee razdelov kak metodologicheskie osnovy politicheskoy nauki, ee istoriya, politicheskie instituty, politicheskie protsessy, politicheskaya kul"tura i ideologiya, mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya i geopolitika. Novizna posobiya zaklyuchaetsya v tom, chto v nem predstavleny avtorskie lektsii po vsem osnovnym temam kursa politologii, kotorye osnovany na dostizheniyakh mirovoy i otechestvennoy politicheskoy mysli, a takzhe maksimal"no adaptirovany k spetsificheskim usloviyam Rossii, Belarusi i drugikh stran SNG. V kazhdoy glave soderzhatsya kontrol"nye voprosy dlya luchshego usvoeniya uchebnogo materiala. Uchebnoe posobie orientiruet chitateley na tvorcheskoe usvoenie sovremennykh demokraticheskikh tsennostey, idey svobody i pravovogo gosudarstva. Ono rasschitano na studentov, aspirantov, prepodavateley i vsekh interesuyushchikhsya politicheskimi problemami.