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British Raj to Amrit Kaal
Through a meticulously researched and nuanced exploration of India’s 75-year journey after Independence, British Raj to Amrit Kaal reveals a profound insight—that the quantum leap in the nation’s progress has not been driven through incremental policy and legislative acts, but primarily by the eight ‘pivotal initiatives’ that went far beyond policy in their scope and vision. From the creation of the IITs to the more recent initiatives like the Aadhar card and the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, this book explores these initiatives to extract the key lessons for the Amrit Kaal period that lies directly ahead. At the core of this narrative are the Sherpas—those extraordinary visionaries who shattered traditional constraints of politics and bureaucracy. Confronting deeply entrenched systemic barriers, these heroes engineered remarkable breakthroughs bringing in transformative change through their unwavering determination and deep commitment to India’s growth.
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Righting Wrongs
'If human rights are considered the most essential quality of human existence, then this book represents a lifetime devoted to the fight for those rights' Ai Weiwei
In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch conducted investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses - and pressured offending governments to stop them. Roth has grappled with the worst of humanity, taken on the most ruthless oppressors of our time, and persuaded leaders from around the globe to stand up to their repressive counterparts.
The son of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany just before the war began, Roth grew up knowing full well how inhumane governments could be. He has traveled the world to meet cruelty and injustice on its home turf: he arrived in Rwanda shortly after the genocide; scrutinized the impact of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait; investigated and condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghur Muslims, to bring Myanmar's officials to justice after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine, even to rein in the U.S. government. Roth's many innovations and strategies included the deployment of a concept as old as mankind - the powerful tool of 'shaming' - and here he illustrates its surprising effectiveness against evildoers.
This is a story of wins, losses, and ongoing battles in the ceaseless fight for a more decent world.
Organising for Change
Based on decades of research, this book explores global social change processes through the concepts of social change organisations (SCOs) and social change makers (SCMs) – the individuals working within and alongside SCOs. The book delves into a vast array of compelling social justice issues, from tackling inequality to championing human rights, bridging the realms of social movement and third sector research. Inspiring and empowering, this is essential reading for scholars, students, NGOs and activists alike.
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For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind
Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democrat Party. But the growing wokeness, fomenting racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story and a call to action to Americans who love our country and cherish peace and freedom.
Today’s Democrat Party is controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by woke ideology and racializing everything. They are a clear and present threat to the God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.
A soldier, former member of Congress, and a former presidential candidate, Tulsi loves her country: “I answered the call to serve and swore an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending the Constitution, both in uniform and in public office. I have always been an independent-minded person but became a Democrat when I first ran for office because I saw a party that stood up for the little guy, free speech, and civil liberties. That party is no more.”
Today that party is unrecognizable: undermining free speech, antagonistic to people of faith, hostile to the police and law and order, suspicious of law-abiding Americans, supporting open borders, and using our national security apparatus to target political opponents.
Now an Independent, Tulsi calls on those who love America to stand up for peace, defend freedom, and protect our democratic republic from those seeking to undermine it at every turn. It’s time to leave the Democrat Party behind.
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The Welfare State in East Asia
During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an overview of welfare state deepening in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and an account of why and how the developmental states institutionalized the social insurance model. Section 2 examines the drivers of social welfare universalization in Japan, Taiwan and Korea, notably the importance of democratization. Section 3 focuses on emerging challenges to the East Asian welfare state and how it has adapted. Though Japan, South Korea and Taiwan evolved their welfare states in a distinctive way historically, the current challenges they face and their responses have converged with other developed, post-industrial democracies.
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The World After Gaza
Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel's policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world - the 'darker peoples', in W. E. B. Du Bois's words - the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation - freedom from the white man's world.
The World After Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West's triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism, and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the global majority's frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world's balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world's population.
As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis - about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World After Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.
Arctic State Identity
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight ‘Arctic states’; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal – understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures – and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a ‘peopled’ view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of ‘state identity’.
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The Wild Men
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A century ago, a Labour government took power for the first time. Meet the "Wild Men" who led the way...''Superb'' -- New Statesman ''Fascinating'' -- The Sunday Times.In 1923, the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men from working-class backgrounds who had never before occupied the corridors of power at Westminster. Who were these ‘wild men’? Ramsay MacDonald, their leader and Labour’s first Prime Minster, was the illegitimate son of a Scottish farm labourer; Arthur Henderson was a Scottish iron moulder; J. H. Thomas, a Welsh railwayman; John Wheatley, an Irish-born miner and publican; and William Adamson, a Fife coal miner.The Wild Men - this new edition with a fully updated preface - tells the story of that first Labour administration – its unexpected birth, fraught existence, and controversial downfall – through the eyes of those who found themselves in the House of Commons, running the country for the people. Blending biography and history into a compelling narrative, David Torrance reassesses the UK’s first Labour government a century after it shook up a British establishment still reeling from the War – and how the establishment eventually fought back.This is an extraordinary period in British political history which echoes down the years to our current politics and laid the foundations for the Britain of today.
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Democracy in Trouble
This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. We focus on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. To understand how these cases survived, we pair them with similar cases where incumbents successfully dismantled democracy from within. Through structured focused comparisons, our inductive exercise provides insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds. The case narratives reveal similar patterns, with incumbents often targeting the media, civil society, and judiciary and using shared tactics to weaken democratic institutions. Where democracies survived, anti-democratic incumbents made critical errors, including major policy blunders and miscalculations, which ultimately cost them their positions and allowed democracy to rebound. Where democracy broke down, incumbents were largely able to avoid or mitigate such errors, often through ethnopopulist appeals.
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Szilánkok
Az orosz-ukrán háború harmadik évét zártuk, és arra kellett rádöbbennie a világnak, hogy ez a háború sokkal többről szól, mint két nemzet fegyveres összecsapásáról, valójában a világ újrarendeződésének első lépéseit láthatjuk...
Európának végre fel kéne ébrednie, és villámgyorsan intézkedéseket hoznia, hogy képes legyen megvédeni önmagát. Már nem az a kérdés, hogy meg tudjuk-e állítani az egész bolygóra kiterjedő változást, hanem az, hogy meg tudjuk-e védeni a függetlenségünket, az értékeinket, az Európai Uniót. Döbbenetes változások indultak meg az utóbbi évtizedben a világban. Kis-, közép- és nagyhatalmak rendeződtek egymással ellenséges tömbökbe.
Ahhoz, hogy jobban megértsük, hogy is jutottunk idáig, bemutatok több saját és néhány külföldi elemzést, információszilánkokat, amelyeket, ha egyben nézünk, kirajzolódik egy kialakulóban lévő új világrend. Az elemzett "szilánkok" után úgy gondolom, jobban érthetővé válik, hogy a napi történések a világban, az ukrajnai háború, a gázai övezeti válság, vagy a tengeri kereskedelmi útvonalak támadása hogyan befolyásolja a mindennapi életünket, és hogyan fogja egyre jobban átformálni a bolygó háborgó másik fele a mi kényelmes világunkat.
Ez a könyv egyfajta vészcsengő, lássunk és tanuljunk abból, ami körülöttünk történik. A világunk, Európa a fény, nem hagyhatjuk kihunyni.
Platformland
The aim of most public sector digitization programmes is the status quo, delivered more cheaply. Rather than saving the public from bureaucracy, digital has created new administrative burdens. The public are engaged as consumers in a way that misunderstands the nature of what makes public services public. Instead of digital being recognised as critical to the operation of a modern state, it is too often an afterthought. It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public more fully. This book describes the types of interaction we should expect from the next generation of public services, the digital platforms and infrastructure they will be built with, and the public sector design values needed to make them a reality. It includes thirty illustrated design patterns, ten strategic interventions, and global examples of emerging patterns in digital government. It also highlights some foundational ideas in computer science, design and public policy to show how the challenges posed by the digital state are neither novel nor new. The book will enable more policy professionals to think like technologists and designers, and it will help more technologists and designers to think about public policy.
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"Hrad" ve světle lobbingu a financí
Jaroslav Preiss patřil k nejvýraznějším osobnostem meziválečného Československa. Byl reprezentantem Živnostenské banky, největšího finančního a průmyslového uskupení v zemi. Těšil se respektu jako hospodářský expert, vlivný lobbista i mecenáš umění. Několikrát uvažoval o aktivním vstupu do politiky. Pravidelně navštěvoval Pražský hrad a udržoval kontakty s prezidentem T. G. Masarykem a jeho kancléřem Přemyslem Šámalem. Jejich korespondence poodhaluje zákulisní mocenské a lobbistické hry, a to jak Preissovy, tak ze strany „Hradu“. Ukazuje styčné body a třecí plochy mezi soukromým podnikáním a politickou reprezentací při budování, konsolidaci i zániku první Československé republiky.
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Intent to Destroy
A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries.
Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign. In Intent to Destroy, leading scholar of genocide and Eastern Europe Eugene Finkel uncovers the deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ever since the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, the domination of this key borderland has become a cornerstone of Russian and Soviet policy. Using genocidal tactics - killings, deportations, starvation and cultural destruction - against ethnic Ukrainians and minorities including Tatars, Jews and Poles, Russia's long-standing policy has aimed to obliterate Ukrainian identity. This eradication has consistently been a part of the Kremlin playbook and leads inexorably to the violence we see today.
Told with the astonishing power of Finkel's connection to this living history, and the authority of two decades of research, Intent to Destroy casts today's war it its broadest historical context, illuminating as never before Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.
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Izraelofobie - Nejnovější verze nejstarší nenávisti
Izrael a Židé na celém světě prožívají těžké časy. Davové šílenství, které na západních univerzitách a v ulicích následovalo po 7. říjnu 2023, neukázalo horoucí lásku k Palestině, ale odhalilo hlubokou nenávist k Izraeli. Žádný jiný konflikt na světě nepřitahuje zdaleka tak velkou pozornost. Výkřiky jako „From the river to the sea…“ či srovnávání Izraelců s nacisty mají společný základ: izraelofobii. A tato nenávist k židovskému státu není ničím jiným než starým antisemitismem zahaleným do nového, politicky korektního hávu.
Jsme svědky neuvěřitelného spojenectví: levice a islamisté stojí v jednom šiku, protože mají společného nepřítele. Izrael. Málokdo z nich tuší, že jen papouškují starou propagandu. Nejdřív tisíciletou nenávist oprášili Němci a poté ji k dokonalosti dovedli Sověti, když antisemitismus ukryli do nového balení. Nenávist komunistického bloku směřovala vůči sionismu, který stavěla naroveň s imperialismem a nacismem. Proč Izrael vyvolává takovou averzi? A proč, když jde o Židy, je část Západu ochotna idealizovat si fanatický islamismus, který přitom západní hodnoty nenávidí?
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War
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.
War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.
We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power.
With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III.
The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president.
War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.
Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.
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Erasing History
From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality and class.
Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our modern political landscape, Erasing History issues a dire warning for the world: the worst fascist movements of humanity's past began in schools; the same place so many of today's right-wing political parties have trained their most vicious attacks.
Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vladimir Putin, Turkey's Recip Erdogan, and Argentina's Javier Milei have all reached the same conclusion: if you want to roll back the clock on civil rights, equity and inclusion, a great place to start is in schools.
Yale professor Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the right's tactics and traces their inspirations and funding back to some of the most dangerous ideas of human history. He shows that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities - and that governments are currently ill-prepared to do the work of uprooting fascist policies being foisted upon our children through school boards, in courtrooms, and in the boardrooms of the organisations trusted to train teachers and create the materials they'll share with their students.
Deeply informed and urgently needed, this book is a vibrant call to action for lovers of democracy worldwide.
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The Myth of American Idealism
From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future
The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ‘spreading democracy’ — except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?
In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America’s pursuit of global domination, offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push.
Offering penetrating accounts of Washington’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they examine how interventions such as these have been justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and benevolent intentions but are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China.
At once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism.
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Lessons in Diplomacy
Is a diplomat's life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d'état in Turkey?
Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who led posts in Ukraine, Turkey and Austria. In this witty globe-trotting adventure through one of the most intriguing careers a person can have, Leigh relates his interactions with royalty of both the aristocratic and celebrity kinds, and with brilliant and extraordinary people who bestowed valuable lessons. Offering astute reflections on Brexit, Russia's war with Ukraine and the chaos of modern politics, he sheds new light on the intricacies of modern statecraft, including what we all can learn from a good diplomat or ambassador.
In this entertaining and accessible first-hand account, you'll discover how diplomats really work with spies, how immunity allows killers to escape justice, how Russia broke up the Soviet Union and then nursed its resentment at the consequences - and how to throw, and be invited to, a great cocktail party.
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Archivy vydávají svá tajemství
V této knize se seznámím s dosud tajnými či nedávno odtajněnými archivními dokumenty, pozadí politických událostí a činy jejich aktérů z poválečné historie až do dnešních dnů. Kdo z vás zná podrobněji třeba historii tzv. moskevských signálů, jejichž radiové vlny po deset let v sedmdesátých letech ozařovaly americké velvyslanectví v Moskvě, ale o jejichž existenci nic nesměli vědět rodinní příslušníci amerických diplomatů a diplomatek? To je jen jeden z mnoha dalších faktů, které autor popisuje ve své knize.
Vždyť jako novinář strávil většinu života v zahraničí, ať už jako stálý zpravodaj Mladé fronty ve Francii, či jako její zahraniční reportér, který kromě Japonska a Austrálie procestoval celý svět, navázal přátelské styky s jejich nejpřednějšími osobnostmi a také se sedmi našimi prezidenty, bádal v našich a zahraničních archivech, aby si ověřoval jednotlivá fakta. Nebyla to vždy lehká práce, byl přímým svědkem několika válek v různých částech světa, zemětřesení v e Skopji a další událostí. Tyto skutečnosti se staly základem jeho knížky literatury faktu.
Není to vždy četba lehká, ale vzrušující tak jako doba, kterou prožíváme. Současně nám objasňuje příčiny událostí, které popisuje, jejich zákulisí a představuje nám jejich aktéry. A to na základě osobního poznání, rozhovorů, dokumentů. Nemusí si k tomu nic domýšlet, život jed pestřejší a složitější než smyšlenky. I proto je tato knížka cenná – nejsou to spekulace, ale fakta několikrát ověřená, a proto tak cenná.
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V kategórii literatúry politológia nájdete rozsiahlu zbierku kníh a diel, ktoré sa zaoberajú politickými systémami, inštitúciami a procesmi. Táto kategória ponúka literatúru o politike, politickej teórii, medzinárodných vzťahoch a politických ideológiách.
Objavte diela svetovo uznávaných politických teoretikov a výskumníkov, ktorí analyzujú mocenské štruktúry, rozhodovacie procesy, politické konflikty a spoločenské zmeny. Ich príspevky sú kľúčové pre lepšie porozumenie politických systémov a ich vplyvu na spoločnosť.
Medzi najznámejších autorov v oblasti politológie patria Niccolo Machiavelli, či Karl Marx.
V slovenskom kontexte môžeme uviesť Miroslava Kusého, Vladimíra Krivého a Miroslava Londáka ako významných autorov politologickej literatúry. Ich diela sa zaoberajú politickým vývojom, inštitúciami a politickým správaním na Slovensku.
