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  • Re:Thinking Europe

    Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Yoeri Albrecht, Mathieu Segers ...
    What is Europe? This question is ever more pressing, as present day Europe wallows in crisis - its deepest since the process of European integration took off in the 1950s. The current state of affairs sets the stage for this book. It brings together leading international thinkers and scholars of different generations in a feverish quest to better understand Europe's present state. In their essays ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark New York Times bestseller and one of the most influential works of political thought of the modern era.First published in 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man made a provocative argument: that liberal democracy might represent the culmination of humanity’s long political evolution. In the decades since, that idea has been challenged, debated, and reconsidered as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Lessons of Tragedy

    Statecraft and World Order

    by Hal Brands, Charles Edel ...
    A "brilliant" examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation's—and the world's—security at risk ( The Wall Street Journal).The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur ... Read more

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  • History

    Why It Matters

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past.So how can any certainty about history be ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Out of Control

    Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century

    by Zbigniew Brzezinski ...
    Brzezinski provides a stark and realistic look at the world's economy and moral crisis in a brilliant analysis of today's geopolitical order.If America is to reassert its moral legitimacy, Brzezinski argues, it must address its basic dilemmas, including deepening poverty, inadequate health care and education, a greedy wealthy class opposed to progressive taxation, and the mass media's promotion of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Moral Blindness

    The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

    by Zygmunt Bauman, Leonidas Donskis ...
    Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one’s ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Warrior Politics

    Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    “The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.” —Sun-TzuWe live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic, Warrior Politics extracts the best of the wisdom of the ages for modern leaders who are faced with the complex ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Power of the Powerless

    Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

    by Vaclav Havel, John Keane ...
    Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav ... Read more

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  • The European Identity

    Historical and Cultural Realities We Cannot Deny

    by Stephen Green ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    What—if anything—do the twenty-eight member states of the European Union have in common? Amidst all the variety, can one even speak of a European identity? In this timely book, Stephen Green explores these questions and argues for the necessity of the European voice in the international community.Green points out that Europeans can readily define the differences that separate them from others ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • International Relations: All That Matters

    by Ken Booth ...
    Series series All That Matters
    This is a short book about the biggest questions in politics. To paraphrase a famous dictum of Trotsky; you might not be interested (yet!) in international relations, but international relations are always interested in you.The practices of international relations critically shape who gets what and who is who across the world, and its theories inform how we live together globally. Decisive things ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Temptation

    Dangerous Ideas in Politics

    by Frits Bolkestein ...
    an absorbing (and beautifully written) study that deserves a very wide audience.- Joshua Muravchikan erudite account of where [the] vision [of individual liberty] comes from, why some ideologues set themselves against it, and how our contemporaries have ceased to treasure it.- Christopher CaldwellBolkestein exposes todays fashionable, yet dangerous ideas, doing a great service not only to Europe ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe

    by David Marquand ...
    Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spain are menaced by financial crises. And the euro is in trouble. In The End of the West, David Marquand, a former member of the British Parliament, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD