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The Prince Summary
Immersive
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1532 144 pages
3.84
300k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
A Conflict of Visions Summary
Immersive
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell 1986 329 pages
4.31
4k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
The Concept of the Political Summary
Immersive
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt 1927 144 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
Why Nations Fail Summary
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoğlu 2012 544 pages
4.09
64k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Soft Power Summary
Soft Power
The Means to Success in World Politics
by Joseph S. Nye Jr. 2004 191 pages
3.81
2k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Summary
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by John J. Mearsheimer 2001 592 pages
4.06
3k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
History
World Order Summary
World Order
by Henry Kissinger 2014 420 pages
4.04
14k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Leviathan Summary
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes 1651 736 pages
3.70
53k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger 1994 912 pages
4.25
9k+ ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
How Democracies Die Summary
How Democracies Die
What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pages
4.16
33k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Anatomy of Fascism Summary
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 pages
4.22
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
How Civil Wars Start Summary
How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
by Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Man, the State, and War Summary
Man, the State, and War
A Theoretical Analysis
by Kenneth N. Waltz 1954 263 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
The Revenge of Geography Summary
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 448 pages
3.79
6k+ ratings
History
Politics
Geography
The Dictator's Handbook Summary
The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2011 426 pages
4.25
11k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder 2017 126 pages
4.29
100k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Spheres of Justice Summary
Spheres of Justice
A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
by Michael Walzer 1983 364 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
Politics Summary
Politics
by Aristotle 368 pages
3.98
43k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Activism
The End of History and the Last Man Summary
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama 1992 464 pages
3.61
7k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Utilitarianism Summary
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill 1861 71 pages
3.68
25k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Policy Paradox Summary
Policy Paradox
The Art of Political Decision Making
by Deborah Stone 1988 428 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Politics
Public Policy
Political Science
How Fascism Works Summary
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason F. Stanley 2018 218 pages
4.25
17k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 Summary
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
by Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
History
International Relations
Politics
The Machiavellians Summary
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom
by James Burnham 1943 305 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Narrow Corridor Summary
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoğlu 2019 560 pages
4.22
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Expert Political Judgment Summary
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
by Philip E. Tetlock 2005 344 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Science
The Logic of Political Survival Summary
The Logic of Political Survival
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2003 550 pages
3.98
162 ratings
Politics
Political Science
Economics
Autocracy, Inc. Summary
Autocracy, Inc.
by Anne Applebaum 2024 224 pages
4.18
17k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Discourses Summary
The Discourses
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1517 544 pages
4.08
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Oil Curse Summary
The Oil Curse
How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
by Michael L. Ross 2012 312 pages
3.96
210 ratings
Politics
Economics
Political Science
Anarchy, State, and Utopia Summary
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick 1974 367 pages
3.74
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Road to Serfdom Summary
The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich A. Hayek 1944 274 pages
4.15
26k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism Summary
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt 1951 527 pages
4.30
15k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Summary
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Political Ideologies Summary
Political Ideologies
An Introduction
by Andrew Heywood 1992 382 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
The Road to Unfreedom Summary
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder 2018 359 pages
4.37
10k+ ratings
History
Politics
Russia
The Origins of Political Order Summary
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 pages
4.18
10k+ ratings
History
Politics
Political Science
Moral Politics Summary
Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff 1996 512 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
On Liberty Summary
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill 1859 187 pages
3.96
43k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
Geopolitics Summary
Geopolitics
A Very Short Introduction
by Klaus Dodds 2007 184 pages
3.31
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Geography
From Dictatorship to Democracy Summary
From Dictatorship to Democracy
A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
by Gene Sharp 1993 160 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Global Politics Summary
Global Politics
by Andrew Heywood 2011 448 pages
4.14
411 ratings
Politics
Political Science
International Relations
Tyranny of the Minority Summary
Tyranny of the Minority
Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
by Steven Levitsky 2023 368 pages
4.39
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Summary
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pages
4.12
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Middle East
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Summary
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington 1998 368 pages
3.78
14k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Rape of the Mind Summary
The Rape of the Mind
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
by Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956 322 pages
4.18
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Multicultural Citizenship Summary
Multicultural Citizenship
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
by Will Kymlicka 1995 290 pages
3.68
282 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Political Science
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