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“george comninel”

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  • The International after 150 Years

    Labor vs Capital, Then and Now

    Edited by George Comninel, Marcello Musto, Victor Wallis ...
    The International Workingmen’s Association was the prototype of all organizations of the Labour movement and the 150th anniversary of its birth (1864-2014) offers an important opportunity to rediscover its history and learn from its legacy.The International helped workers to grasp that the emancipation of labour could not be won in a single country but was a global objective. It also spread an ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter“A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving.”—David Remnick, New YorkerThe world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the United States, authoritarian populists ha... ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The New Class War

    Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite

    by Michael Lind ...
    In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex: Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war.In this controversial and groundbreaking new analysis, ... Read more

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  • After Europe

    by Ivan Krastev ...
    In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes chapters devoted to Europe's major problems ... Read more

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  • Counter-Revolution

    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

    by Benjamin M. Friedman ...
    From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Marxism

    by Paul D'Amato ...
    “In [D’Amato’s] able hands, Marxist politics come alive and leap before us, pointing a way toward a better world. It’s a knockout.”—Dave Zirin, author of What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United StatesIn this lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples, D’Amato argues that Marx’s ideas of globalization, oppression, and ... Read more

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  • No Enchanted Palace

    The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

    by Mark M. Mazower ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as ... Read more

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  • The Confidence Trap

    A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition

    by David Runciman, David Runciman ...
    Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis—and why that belief is so dangerousWhy do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the ... Read more

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  • Bound to Lead

    The Changing Nature of American Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **A pre-eminent scholar challenges the notion of inevitable American decline, arguing that the nation can still lead in a rapidly shifting world order“Nye marshals his wide grasp of history, politics, and economics to produce a compelling book.” —The Economist**In this pioneering work, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., reckons with the enduring claim that American decline is inevitable. He argues that the ... Read more

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  • The New Age of Catastrophe

    by Alex Callinicos ...
    The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats – the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events caused by accelerating climate change, and the danger of nuclear war in the wake ... Read more

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  • The Wealth of (Some) Nations

    Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer

    by Zak Cope ...
    In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigourous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanisms of monopoly rent, unequal exchange and colonial tribute. The result is a polarised international ... Read more

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