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The Prince

av Niccolò Machiavelli • 1532

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

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🏛️ Political Realism 📖 Ruler's Handbook ⚡ Power Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🎭 Moral Flexibility

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The Prince

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

av Niccolò Machiavelli 1532 144 sider

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300 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Political Realism 📖 Ruler's Handbook ⚡ Power Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🎭 Moral Flexibility

Soft Power

av Joseph S. Nye Jr. • 2004

Attraction is the neglected half of power. Ignoring it costs any superpower blood and credibility.

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🌍 International Relations 🧲 Soft Power 🗣️ Public Diplomacy 🎯 Grand Strategy 🏛️ Hegemony

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Soft Power

Attraction is the neglected half of power. Ignoring it costs any superpower blood and credibility.

av Joseph S. Nye Jr. 2004 191 sider

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🌍 International Relations 🧲 Soft Power 🗣️ Public Diplomacy 🎯 Grand Strategy 🏛️ Hegemony

Bloodlines of the Illuminati

av Fritz Springmeier • 2002

Thirteen families sit behind every government, bank, and war; follow the trusts to find them.

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🧬 Conspiracy Genealogy 🏛️ Hidden Power Structures 🕯️ Secret Society Histories ⚔️ Controlled Opposition 💰 Dynastic Wealth

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Bloodlines of the Illuminati

Thirteen families sit behind every government, bank, and war; follow the trusts to find them.

av Fritz Springmeier 2002 623 sider

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285 vurderinger

🧬 Conspiracy Genealogy 🏛️ Hidden Power Structures 🕯️ Secret Society Histories ⚔️ Controlled Opposition 💰 Dynastic Wealth

Becoming Brigitte

av Xavier Poussard • 2025

No photos before 40. A 53% face match. France jailed the people who asked why.

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🏛️ French Politics 📰 Political Scandal 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📺 Media Manipulation 🚫 State Censorship

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Becoming Brigitte

No photos before 40. A 53% face match. France jailed the people who asked why.

av Xavier Poussard 2025 332 sider

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281 vurderinger

🏛️ French Politics 📰 Political Scandal 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📺 Media Manipulation 🚫 State Censorship

The Concept of the Political

av Carl Schmitt • 1927

Politics begins not with debate but with the naming of an enemy.

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🗡️ Political Realism 📜 Critique Of Liberalism ⛪ Political Theology 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏛️ State Sovereignty

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The Concept of the Political

Politics begins not with debate but with the naming of an enemy.

av Carl Schmitt 1927 144 sider

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🗡️ Political Realism 📜 Critique Of Liberalism ⛪ Political Theology 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏛️ State Sovereignty

Why Civil Resistance Works

av Erica Chenoweth • 2011

The most effective weapon against a dictator is not a gun: 200,000 people refusing to cooperate.

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🏳️ Civil Resistance 🏛️ Regime Change 🗳️ Democratization 👥 Collective Action ⚔️ Political Violence

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Why Civil Resistance Works

The most effective weapon against a dictator is not a gun: 200,000 people refusing to cooperate.

av Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 sider

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500+ vurderinger

🏳️ Civil Resistance 🏛️ Regime Change 🗳️ Democratization 👥 Collective Action ⚔️ Political Violence

The Jakarta Method

av Vincent Bevins • 2020

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

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The Jakarta Method

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

av Vincent Bevins 2020 320 sider

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Vision of the Anointed

av Thomas Sowell • 1995

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

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The Vision of the Anointed

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

av Thomas Sowell 1995 320 sider

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

av Thomas Sowell • 2015

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

av Thomas Sowell 2015 509 sider

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Behind the Green Mask

av Rosa Koire • 2011

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

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🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

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Behind the Green Mask

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

av Rosa Koire 2011 172 sider

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365 vurderinger

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Suicidal Empathy

av Gad Saad • 2026

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

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Suicidal Empathy

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

av Gad Saad 2026

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

Modi, Muslims and Media

av Madhu Purnima Kishwar • 2014

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Governance Reform ⚔️ Information Warfare

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Modi, Muslims and Media

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

av Madhu Purnima Kishwar 2014 400 sider

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125 vurderinger

🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Governance Reform ⚔️ Information Warfare

The Invisible Coup

av Peter Schweizer • 2026

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

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The Invisible Coup

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

av Peter Schweizer 2026 288 sider

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

For a New Liberty

av Murray N. Rothbard • 1973

One moral law for governments and citizens. Apply it, and the state stands convicted.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏴 Stateless Society 🚫 Victimless Crimes

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For a New Liberty

One moral law for governments and citizens. Apply it, and the state stands convicted.

av Murray N. Rothbard 1973 338 sider

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏴 Stateless Society 🚫 Victimless Crimes

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

av Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

4.09

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Sammendrag

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The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

av Mark Peterson 2026 390 sider

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22 vurderinger

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

Imagined Communities

av Benedict Anderson • 1983

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

Imagined Communities

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

av Benedict Anderson 1983 224 sider

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

The Fourth Turning

av William Strauss • 1996

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Fourth Turning

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

av William Strauss 1996 400 sider

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

Diplomacy

av Henry Kissinger • 1994

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

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🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Diplomacy

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

av Henry Kissinger 1994 912 sider

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🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Abundance

av Ezra Klein • 2025

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

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🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

Abundance

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

av Ezra Klein 2025 304 sider

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53 000+ vurderinger

🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

Leviathan

av Thomas Hobbes • 1651

Human equality breeds universal war; the only remedy is an absolute sovereign.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 👑 Absolute Sovereignty 🌿 State Of Nature ⚖️ Natural Law

Leviathan

Human equality breeds universal war; the only remedy is an absolute sovereign.

av Thomas Hobbes 1651 736 sider

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53 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 👑 Absolute Sovereignty 🌿 State Of Nature ⚖️ Natural Law

The Republic

av Plato

Why be just when no one is watching? A 2,500-year-old Socratic answer that built Western philosophy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy 🌆 Utopian Thought 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

The Republic

Why be just when no one is watching? A 2,500-year-old Socratic answer that built Western philosophy.

av Plato 416 sider

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy 🌆 Utopian Thought 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Indian Polity

av M. Laxmikanth • 2009

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

Indian Polity

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

av M. Laxmikanth 2009 1266 sider

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

The Tyranny of Merit

av Michael J. Sandel • 2020

Winning through talent was supposed to be just. It taught winners contempt and losers self-blame.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📈 Social Mobility 📜 Credentialism 🔨 Dignity Of Work 🎓 Higher Education Critique

The Tyranny of Merit

Winning through talent was supposed to be just. It taught winners contempt and losers self-blame.

av Michael J. Sandel 2020 272 sider

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14 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📈 Social Mobility 📜 Credentialism 🔨 Dignity Of Work 🎓 Higher Education Critique

How Democracies Die

av Steven Levitsky • 2018

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

How Democracies Die

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

av Steven Levitsky 2018 320 sider

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

How Civil Wars Start

av Barbara F. Walter • 2022

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

How Civil Wars Start

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

av Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 sider

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

The Anatomy of Fascism

av Robert O. Paxton • 2004

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

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🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements 🤝 Elite Complicity ⚖️ Democratic Breakdown

The Anatomy of Fascism

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

av Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 sider

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🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements 🤝 Elite Complicity ⚖️ Democratic Breakdown

The Grand Chessboard

av Zbigniew Brzeziński • 1997

The world's power runs through Eurasia. America lives outside it and still holds the keys.

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🗺️ Geopolitical Strategy 🏛️ Foreign Policy 🦅 American Hegemony 🌏 Eurasian Politics 🌐 Post-Cold War Order

The Grand Chessboard

The world's power runs through Eurasia. America lives outside it and still holds the keys.

av Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 sider

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🗺️ Geopolitical Strategy 🏛️ Foreign Policy 🦅 American Hegemony 🌏 Eurasian Politics 🌐 Post-Cold War Order

On Tyranny

av Timothy Snyder • 2017

What ordinary citizens did wrong last century, and what you can do right this one.

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🔗 Authoritarianism 🛡️ Democratic Defense ✊ Civil Resistance 📢 Media Manipulation 🤝 Civic Engagement

On Tyranny

What ordinary citizens did wrong last century, and what you can do right this one.

av Timothy Snyder 2017 126 sider

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🔗 Authoritarianism 🛡️ Democratic Defense ✊ Civil Resistance 📢 Media Manipulation 🤝 Civic Engagement

Dead Aid

av Dambisa Moyo • 2009

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

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🌍 African Economies 🔗 Aid Dependency 🏗️ Market Development 🇨🇳 China In Africa 🤝 Trade Not Aid

Dead Aid

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

av Dambisa Moyo 2009 188 sider

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8 000+ vurderinger

🌍 African Economies 🔗 Aid Dependency 🏗️ Market Development 🇨🇳 China In Africa 🤝 Trade Not Aid

Politics

av Aristotle

Every city promises the good life. Aristotle's test for which ones actually deliver it.

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🏛️ Political Theory 🗳️ Civic Virtue 🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚖️ Mixed Constitutions 👥 Political Community

Politics

Every city promises the good life. Aristotle's test for which ones actually deliver it.

av Aristotle 368 sider

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🏛️ Political Theory 🗳️ Civic Virtue 🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚖️ Mixed Constitutions 👥 Political Community

Principles of Economics

av N. Gregory Mankiw • 1997

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

Principles of Economics

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

av N. Gregory Mankiw 1997 848 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

Strategy

av Lawrence Freedman • 2013

Strategy is not a plan: a battle of minds from chimpanzee coalitions to nuclear deterrence.

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🪖 Military History ♟️ Strategic Thought 🏛️ Political Strategy 🌲 Guerrilla Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

Strategy

Strategy is not a plan: a battle of minds from chimpanzee coalitions to nuclear deterrence.

av Lawrence Freedman 2013 768 sider

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🪖 Military History ♟️ Strategic Thought 🏛️ Political Strategy 🌲 Guerrilla Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

AI Needs You

av Verity Harding • 2024

AI won't be fixed by engineers alone: history shows democratic boundaries spark best breakthroughs.

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⚖️ Ai Governance 🤖 Ai Ethics 📡 Technology Policy 🏛️ Public Interest Tech 💡 Innovation Policy

AI Needs You

AI won't be fixed by engineers alone: history shows democratic boundaries spark best breakthroughs.

av Verity Harding 2024 288 sider

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259 vurderinger

⚖️ Ai Governance 🤖 Ai Ethics 📡 Technology Policy 🏛️ Public Interest Tech 💡 Innovation Policy

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

av Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2002

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

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💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 495 sider

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8 000+ vurderinger

💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

av Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

av Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

India After Gandhi

av Ramachandra Guha • 2007

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

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🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

India After Gandhi

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

av Ramachandra Guha 2007 912 sider

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18 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

The Rule of Law

av Tom Bingham • 2010

Eight standards for the rule of law. Cross them, and a lawful state becomes tyranny.

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🏛️ Rule Of Law 🧠 Legal Philosophy 📜 Constitutional Law ✊ Human Rights Law 🚪 Access To Justice

The Rule of Law

Eight standards for the rule of law. Cross them, and a lawful state becomes tyranny.

av Tom Bingham 2010 203 sider

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3 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Rule Of Law 🧠 Legal Philosophy 📜 Constitutional Law ✊ Human Rights Law 🚪 Access To Justice

The Logic of Political Survival

av Bruce Bueno de Mesquita • 2003

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

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🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Logic of Political Survival

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

av Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2003 550 sider

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162 vurderinger

🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Real Book of Real Estate

av Robert T. Kiyosaki • 2010

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

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🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

The Real Book of Real Estate

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

av Robert T. Kiyosaki 2010 464 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

av S. Jaishankar • 2020

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

av S. Jaishankar 2020 240 sider

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

Dark Alliance

av Gary Webb • 1998

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Dark Alliance

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

av Gary Webb 1998 601 sider

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Bad Samaritans

av Ha-Joon Chang • 2007

Rich nations preach free trade. Their own history is tariffs, state planning, and stolen patents.

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🏗️ Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Policy ⚖️ Neoliberal Critique 🔄 Heterodox Economics

Bad Samaritans

Rich nations preach free trade. Their own history is tariffs, state planning, and stolen patents.

av Ha-Joon Chang 2007 288 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🏗️ Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Policy ⚖️ Neoliberal Critique 🔄 Heterodox Economics

Political Ideologies

av Andrew Heywood • 1992

Ideologies are flexible lenses that shape what you see as real, possible, and worth fighting for.

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🧠 Political Theory 📖 Political Ideologies 📜 History Of Ideas 🌐 Social Theory 🗳️ Western Political Thought

Political Ideologies

Ideologies are flexible lenses that shape what you see as real, possible, and worth fighting for.

av Andrew Heywood 1992 382 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🧠 Political Theory 📖 Political Ideologies 📜 History Of Ideas 🌐 Social Theory 🗳️ Western Political Thought

The Origins of Political Order

av Francis Fukuyama • 2011

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

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🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

The Origins of Political Order

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

av Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 sider

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10 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

On Grand Strategy

av John Lewis Gaddis • 2018

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

On Grand Strategy

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

av John Lewis Gaddis 2018 368 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

The Globalization Paradox

av Dani Rodrik • 2010

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

The Globalization Paradox

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

av Dani Rodrik 2010 368 sider

4.00

1 000+ vurderinger

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🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🥶 Cold War Proxy Wars 🪖 Military Rule

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