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China Goes Green
Judith Shapiro
What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a...
Political Science For Dummies
Marcus A. Stadelmann, PhD
Expand your political science knowledge with a book that explains concepts in a way anyone can understand! The global political climate is dynamic, at times even volatile. To understand this evolving landscape, it’s important to learn...
Post-Democracy After the Crises
Colin Crouch
In <i>Post-Democracy</i> (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the fa?ade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed...
The Left Case for Brexit
Richard Tuck
Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what’s left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. <br /> <br /> Richard...
Remaking One Nation
Nick Timothy
In these divided and divisive times, what is the future course for our politics? In this ground-breaking book, Nick Timothy, one of Britain’s leading conservative thinkers and commentators, explores the powerful forces driving great changes in...
Conspiracy Theories
Quassim Cassam
9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. These are all...
На скалистом берегу
Александр Николаевич Кестер
Мир стал более открытым после перестройки и ещё шире после того, как интернет стал массовым явлением. У гораздо большего числа людей появилась возможность путешествовать, общаться, жить в другой стране и ездить на заработки. Об одном из эпизодов...
Эстетическая бесконечность
Поль Валери
Поль Валери (1871–1945) – одна из самых многогранных фигур в культуре ХХ века: поэт, эссеист, мыслитель, драматург, но главное – искатель ключей к французской и мировой культуре, мастер сложнейших шифров и дешифровок, в которых математика...
Die Corona-Krise
Группа авторов
Dieser erste Band mit Reflexionen ?ber die Corona-Krise versammelt Beitr?ge von Expert*innen und Betroffenen, die sich mit dem Erleben von Ma?nahmen, Krankheit und Gesundheit besch?ftigen. Sie stammen aus verschiedenen Bereichen und beleuchten...
Птицы, искусство, жизнь: год наблюдений
Кио Маклир
В книге «Птицы, искусство, жизнь: год наблюдений» Кио Маклир отправляется в орнитологическое путешествие по большому городу и на своем пути размышляет о природе творчества и поисках осмысленной жизни. Оказавшись в сложной жизненной ситуации,...
Karl Polanyi
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On 8 May 2018, the International Karl Polanyi Society was founded in Vienna. This marked the beginning of a new phase of engagement with a thinker who had already come to be regarded as a centennial figure in the Anglo-Saxon world. This book...
How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes
Oksana Huss
Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic...
Япония. История и культура: от самураев до манги
Нэнси Сталкер
Японская культура проникла в нашу современность достаточно глубоко, чтобы мы уже не воспринимали доставку суши на ужин как что-то экзотичное. Но вы знали, что японцы изначально не ели суши как основное блюдо, только в качестве закуски? Мы...
Книга потребностей. All you need
Микаэль Крогерус
Известнейшая «пирамида» Абрахама Маслоу, или «иерархия потребностей», разработанная 75 лет назад, несет незамысловатый посыл: мы не в состоянии реализовать себя, если наш желудок пуст, нет крыши над головой и средств к существованию. Но как же...
Анатомия разума. Об интеллекте, религии и будущем
Эрвин Шрёдингер
В этой книге крупнейший австрийский физик Э. Шредингер рассматривает такие вопросы, которые традиционно считаются прерогативой философов, теологов, психоаналитиков и политиков: являются ли разум и материя, субъект и объект, внутреннее я и...
Почему у женщин при социализме секс лучше. Аргументы в пользу экономической независимости
Кристен Годси
Профессор Пенсильванского университета, автор семи книг Кристен Годси объясняет, почему триумф капитализма в странах первого и второго мира не стал выходом для большинства женщин. Она мастерски развенчивает устойчивые мифы о том, что в условиях...
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Эдвард Бернейс
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Эдвард Бернейс (1891–1995) – племянник Зигмунда Фрейда, «отец пиара» и первооткрыватель научной техники формирования и управления...
Gesundheit – ein Gut und sein Preis
Sabine Predehl
Gesundheit – ein Gut und sein Preis Die vorliegende Schrift – erkl?rt, warum man so viel f?r seine Gesundheit tun muss, n?mlich wodurch sie dauernd gef?hrdet und gesch?digt wird. – bestimmt den Fehler, den sich die medizinische...
Ключевые идеи книги: Лучшее в нас. Почему насилия в мире стало меньше. Стивен Пинкер
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Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги «Лучшее в нас. Почему насилия в мире стало меньше» Стивена Пинкера. Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры.
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Nation Building in Contested States
Viktoria Potapkina
This study provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is presented, collected in...
Einordnung der Zuwanderung aus biblischer Sicht
Jakob Tscharntke
Bibeltreue Verk?ndiger des Wortes Gottes werden besonders dann von s?kularen Medien wahrgenommen, wenn sie den Zeitgeist anprangern und der Welt auch Unbequemes sagen. So sorgte im Oktober 2015 ein Pastor in S?dw?rttemberg f?r Schlagzeilen....
Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Archie Henderson
This truly unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism, the right wing, and the far right, offering a detailed overview of primary sources in all media (documents, film, video, sound recordings, microfilm and...
Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia
Группа авторов
This volume explores the issues of extremism and violent extremism in Serbia through research from a multitude of different interdisciplinary perspectives. The topic of violent extremism and radicalization leading to terror (VERLT) has grown as...
Challenges, risks and threats for security in Europe
Группа авторов
The conditions for security in Europe in the 21st century differ from those in the second half of the 20th century. The consequences of the East-West conflict no longer determine the security agenda. Due to the pan-European process of...
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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Featuring a special section on “Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics”
This issue's special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and...
This issue's special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and...
Different Perspectives on the Syrian Reality
Группа авторов
This unique collection from Syria presents research papers focusing on topics in cultural research that are relevant to the current Syrian situation, especially with regard to the fundamental changes in the relationship of Syrians to the society...
Concurrences in Postcolonial Research
Группа авторов
The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to...
The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia
Aijan Sharshenova
Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU...
Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union
David Satter
David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990,...
Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe
Группа авторов
The book series „European Studies in the Caucasus” offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia as the major regional powers, it moves away from a traditional...
Shaping a different Europe
Группа авторов
Englische Sprachausgabe des Titels «F?r ein anderes Europa» (ISBN 978-3-80152-7002-5): In the face of the «euro crisis» the question arises: how does the European Union look in terms of the fundamental values and goals of the political left –...
The Russian Path
Dmitry Travin
The politico-economic reforms launched during the late twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia have led to contradictory and ambiguous results. The new economic environment and mode of governance that emerged have been subjected to serious...
Joining a Prestigious Club
Maria Shagina
Brussels’s idea of a “wider Europe” implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyond its borders. One of the channels of external EU influence is cooperation between Europarties...
The rise of the Palace State
Ihsan G?m?s
The present volume by İhsan G?m?ş, an author who, in a situation of persecution and oppression, writes under a pseudonym, is a collection of articles which were published on the website Platform for Peace and Justice in 2017 and 2018. They focus...
A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe
Группа авторов
This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the...
Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics
Andrey Makarychev
In post-Soviet Russian politics, Boris Nemtsov is one of the most tragic figures—and not only because he was shot dead, at the age of 56, in close vicinity to the Kremlin, the locus of Russia’s power. The “transparency of evil” in this specific...
State Building in the Middle of a Geopolitical Struggle
Rolando M. Dromundo Valadez
Rolando Dromundo presents a political and historical analysis of the state-building processes in Ukraine, Moldova, and the unrecognized Republic of Pridnestrovia from the Soviet fall until 2015, starting with a sketch of the main geopolitical...
Die Entm?ndigung des Staates und die Krise der Demokratie
Anselm Doering-Manteuffel
Der Autor definiert die Funktionsbedingungen einer repr?sentativen Demokratie und legt diese dann insbesondere f?r die Bundesrepublik Deutschland auf den Pr?fstand. Medialisierung, technische Revolutionen und ?konomische Liberalisierung...
Mehr B?rgergesellschaft wagen
Joachim Gauck
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist eine repr?sentative Demokratie – zumindest auf der Ebene des Bundes. Die Gesetzgebung liegt ausschlie?lich in den H?nden von Bundestag und Bundesrat – so haben es die V?ter und M?tter des Grundgesetzes im...
Koulou Tamam, ?gypten?
Peter S. Kaspar
Als ?gypten im Januar 2011 gegen Mubarak auf die Stra?e ging, wurde das vom Westen frenetisch gefeiert. Doch viele Touristen meiden das Land seitdem, weil die politische Lage immer noch als heikel gilt. Was aber bedeutet das f?r ein Land, f?r...
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History
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This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social...
Die Souver?nit?tsl?ge
Heiko Schrang
Dieses Buch ist in seiner Brisanz kaum zu ?berbieten, da es kurze und pr?zise Erkl?rungen gibt, auf die ungeheuerlichen Fragen:
• Ist Deutschland ?berhaupt ein souver?ner Staat? • Ist Deutschland eine Firma? • Ist Deutschland noch...
• Ist Deutschland ?berhaupt ein souver?ner Staat? • Ist Deutschland eine Firma? • Ist Deutschland noch...
Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked
Petar Cholakov
Based on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, inter-ethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its...
Who Will Govern the New World—the Present and Future of the G20
Группа авторов
How can the G20 fulfill their role most efficiently in the post-crisis era, and what role do the emerging economies play in the new global economic order? This timely volume provides an overview of the most important challenges ahead for the...
Romania’s Strategic Culture 1990–2014
Iulia-Sabina Joja
Analysis of strategic culture facilitates a comprehensive understanding of a nation’s security identity and patterns of policy conduct. Though strategic culture changes over time, why and how these mutations take place has not been researched...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II
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Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest...
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Religion and Magic in Socialist and Postsocialist Contexts [Part I]
Группа авторов
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and socio-political balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic...
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space....
