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The World As It Is
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`One of the most compelling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people' BARACK OBAMAA revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency from perhaps his closest collaborator, and a political memoir about the power of words to change our worldThis is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.
A young writer and Washington outsider, Rhodes was plucked from obscurity aged 29. For nearly ten years, he was at the centre of the Obama Administration - first as a speech-writer, then a policy maker, and finally a close collaborator. Here, Rhodes tells the full story of his partnership - and, ultimately, friendship - with a historic president.
From the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours in the Oval Office, he puts us in the room at the most tense and poignant moments in recent history. `Vivid, lucid, enjoyable... A compelling account of life in the Obama White House' Justin Webb, The Times`A stylish, beautifully written political memoir' Colum McCann
The Wall
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights.
The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else.
He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night. But somewhere, in the dark cave of his mind, he thinks: wouldn't it be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if you had to fight for your life?
John Lanchester's thrilling, hypnotic new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. It's about a broken world you will recognise as your own-and about what might be found when all is lost.
The Wall was longlisted for the Booker Prize in July 2019.
Lacná kniha Siege : Trump Under Fire (-70%)
With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side. A stunningly fresh narrative that begins just as Trump's second year as president is getting underway and ends with the delivery of the Mueller report, Siege reveals an administration that is perpetually beleaguered by investigations and a president who is increasingly volatile, erratic and exposed.
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Siege : Trump Under Fire
With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side. A stunningly fresh narrative that begins just as Trump's second year as president is getting underway and ends with the delivery of the Mueller report, Siege reveals an administration that is perpetually beleaguered by investigations and a president who is increasingly volatile, erratic and exposed.
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Social Democracy in the Making Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists
The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism-a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal, and included. With a focus on the intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain and Germany, this book traces the story of democratic socialism from its birth in the nineteenth century through the mid-1960s.
Examining the tenets on which the movement was founded and how it adapted to different cultural, religious, and economic contexts from its beginnings through the social and political traumas of the twentieth century, Gary Dorrien reminds us that Christian socialism paved the way for all liberation theologies that make the struggles of oppressed peoples the subject of redemption. He argues for a decentralized economic democracy and anti-imperial internationalism.
Russias Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism.
Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia's economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
Why They Marched: Untold Stories
Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.
Ware tells her story through the lives of nineteen activists, most of whom have long been overlooked. We meet Mary Church Terrell, a multilingual African American woman; Rose Schneiderman, a labor activist building coalitions on New York's Lower East Side; Claiborne Catlin, who toured the Massachusetts countryside on horseback to drum up support for the cause; Mary Johnston, an aristocratic novelist bucking the Southern ruling elite; Emmeline W. Wells, a Mormon woman in a polygamous marriage determined to make her voice heard; and others who helped harness a groundswell of popular support. We also see the many places where the suffrage movement unfolded-in church parlors, meeting rooms, and the halls of Congress, but also on college campuses and even at the top of Mount Rainier. Few corners of the United States were untouched by suffrage activism.
Ware's deeply moving stories provide a fresh account of one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in American history. The dramatic, often joyous experiences of these women resonate powerfully today, as a new generation of young women demands to be heard.
Opium intelektuálů
Kniha renomovaného francouzského filozofa, sociologa a politologa, jedné z největších postav sociálních věd 20. století, představuje vrchol autorova kritického zkoumání podstaty komunistických systémů a způsobů myšlení spojených s fenoménem komunismu. Je stále aktuální nesmlouvavou kritikou ještě nedávno přímo posvátných pojmů, jako jsou levice, revoluce a proletariát, a ideologického smýšlení vůbec..
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The House of Islam
The gulf between Islam and the West is widening. A faith rich with strong values and traditions, observed by nearly two billion people is seen by the West as something to be feared rather than understood. Sensational headlines and hard-line policies spark enmity, while ignoring the feelings, narratives and perceptions that preoccupy Muslims today.
The House of Islam seeks to provide entry to the minds and hearts of Muslims the world over. It introduces us to the kindness of Mohammed; the beauty of Islamic art and the permeation of the divine in public spaces; and the tension between mysticism and literalism that still threatens the House of Islam.
Ed Husain expertly and compassionately guides us through the nuances of Islam and its people, contending that the Muslim world need not be a stranger to the West, nor its enemy, but a peaceable ally.
From Cold War to Hot Peace
A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times)
In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia for decades, becoming one of America's preeminent scholars on the country during the first Putin era.
During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as "Reset," which fostered unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of hostility not known since the darkest days of the Cold War. From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama to foment revolution against Putin's regime.
This resulting insider's account - uniquely combining history, politics and intimate personal knowledge of the corridors of power - takes us from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers and the Oval Office, to explain how Russia really works, and why the world has entered a dangerous new era of confrontation.
Lid versus demokracie
Autoritářští populisté po celém světě od Indie po Turecko a od Polska po Spojené státy rozšiřují a upevňují svůj politický vliv a moc. Máme-li porozumět tomu, jak velkou hrozbu tento vývoj představuje a jak se mu lze bránit, musíme nejdříve pochopit příčiny atraktivity a stability, jimž se liberální demokracie po druhé světové válce v globálním měřítku těšila, a popsat tendence, jež tuto stabilitu v konečném výsledku narušily. Yascha Mounk spatřuje klíčový problém v odloučení obou bytostných složek liberální demokracie, tedy garantování lidských a občanských práv na jedné straně a schopnosti řídit se aktuální lidovou vůlí na straně druhé. Narušením rovnováhy, jež je pro liberální demokracii životně nutná, vznikají dvě problematické formy: nedemokratický liberalismus, v němž obyvatelstvo ztrácí vliv na počínání politických elit, a neliberální demokracie, v níž vůle lidu potlačuje práva jednotlivců a menšin.
Autor se snaží vystihnout specifické příčiny, jež posilují přitažlivost autoritářských programů, a navrhuje konkrétní kroky do budoucna, zahrnující též nastolení tolerantního, inkluzivního pojmu národa.
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Temný kontinent Evropa ve 20. století
Evropa Marka Mazowera není kontinentem starých států a národů, ale v mnoha ohledech je velmi nová a v průběhu 20. století neustále "vynalézá" samu sebe prostřednictvím často bouřlivých a chaotických politických změn. Moderní demokracie a s ní úzce spojený národní stát je v zásadě výsledkem experimentování. Tři ideologie liberální demokracie, komunismus a fašismus se považovaly za předurčené přetvořit společnost, kontinent a svět v "nový řád lidstva". Jejich vzájemný boj o definici nové Evropy trval po většinu minulého století. Liberální demokracie ovládla Evropu po první světové válce, ale o dvě desetiletí později už tak říkajíc zmírala na úbytě. Rok 1989 znamenal vítězství demokracie nad komunismem, nicméně k tomuto vítězství by nedošlo, kdyby komunismus předtím neuštědřil všeobecnou a drtivou válečnou porážku nacionálnímu socialismu. Rozhodně tedy nebylo předurčeno osudem, že demokracie nakonec zvítězí nad fašismem i komunismem, stejně jako není stále zřejmé, jaký druh demokracie je Evropa schopná a ochotná budovat. "Temný kontinent" je napínavým příběhem s neočekávanými zvraty, nikoliv záznamem vývoje směřujícího neustále kupředu k nevyhnutelným vítězstvím.
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Konzervatismus dnes
Je konzervatismus stále nosný ideový proud, nebo už své hlavní "bitvy" v globalizované společnosti dávno prohrál? Může nás dnes ještě nějak inspirovat?
Autoři v přehledné publikaci shrnují své politicko-filosofické úvahy, které již dlouhou dobu publikují v revui Kontexty a v dalších časopisech a publikacích. Zamýšlejí se nad tím, jak v dnešním světě uchopit konzervativní myšlenkovou tradici, zejména tu anglosaskou, a jak ji lze využít v současné pravicové politice.
Svůj přístup definují jako konzervativní realismus, politický styl prosazující realistické odpovědi na hlavní problémy naší doby. Návrat k základním konzervativním hodnotám, postojům a přístupům může pomoci účinně čelit současným ideologickým nešvarům, úpadku české politiky, krizi evropské integrace i novým bezpečnostním rizikům. Je to rozumná, pragmatická odpověď na sílící krizi západních institucí a celkové oslabování Evropy, na rozbujelý multikulturalismus, politiku identit a politickou korektnost, na neúnosně rostoucí byrokracii a všudypřítomný elektronický dohled, na ekologické výzvy a celkové odlidšťování světa.
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Stálo to za to?
Vybudovali jsme funkční stát? Kde je hranice mezi vlastenectvím a nacionalismem? Stálo vůbec za to zakládat republiku? Moderátor pořadu Historie.cs Vladimír Kučera a Karel Kučera položili tyto a podobné otázky osobnostem z různých oblastí a různých názorů, mezi nimiž jsou Petr Pithart, Karel Schwarzenberg, Daniel Kroupa, Jan Rychlík i naši sousedé z Polska či Slovenska. Texty doplňuje kreslený humor autora populárního měsíčníku Sorry.
How to Democratize Europe
An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and fiscal justice and public investment. The European Union is struggling. The rise of Euroskeptic parties in member states, economic distress in the south, the migrant crisis, and Brexit top the news.
But deeper structural problems may be a greater long-term peril. Not least is the economic management of the Eurozone, the nineteen countries that use the Euro. How can this be accomplished in a way generally acceptable to members, given a political system whose structures are routinely decried for a lack of democratic accountability? How can the EU promote fiscal and social justice while initiating the long-term public investments that Europe needs to overcome stagnation? These are the problems a distinguished group of European and American scholars set out to solve in this short but valuable book.
Among many longstanding grievances is the charge that Eurozone policies serve large and wealthy countries at the expense of poorer nations. It is also unclear who decides economic policy, how the interests of diverse member states are balanced, and to whom the decision-makers are accountable. The four lead authors-Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, and Antoine Vauchez-describe these and other problems, and respond with a draft treaty establishing a parliament for economic policy, its members drawn from national parliaments.
We then hear from invited critics, who express support, objections, or alternative ideas. How to Democratize Europe offers a chance to observe how major thinkers view some of the Continent's most pressing issues and attempt to connect democratic reform with concrete changes in economic and social policies.
Politické Slovensko
Jedinečná encyklopedická príručka mapuje politický život Slovákov od počiatkov formovania slovenského národa a jeho elít v rámci habsburskej monarchie cez spoločný česko-slovenský štát a "vojnovú" Slovenskú republiku až po súčasnosť. Vyše 600 hesiel predstavuje významné osobnosti, kľúčové udalosti, inštitúcie, mediálne platformy politického života a myslenia (noviny, časopisy), politické a právne dokumenty, politické strany či ideové hnutia. Kniha je primárne určená najmä študentom spoločenských vied, práva či ekonomiky, adeptom politiky a verejného života, publicistom a pedagógom, dobre však poslúži všetkým záujemcom o prehĺbenie znalostí v oblasti slovenských dejín.
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Clear Bright Future
Today, the human race faces a new problem. Thanks to information technology, vast asymmetries of knowledge and power have opened up. Through the screens of our smart devices, corporations and governments know what we're doing, what we're thinking, can predict our next moves and influence our behaviour.
We, meanwhile, don't even have the right to know that any of this is going on. As Paul Mason argues in this pyrotechnic new book, all this is intimately connected to the urgent economic, political and moral crises we are living through now.
Clear Bright Futureexplores how, during the preceding decades, the free-market system reduced us to two-dimensional consumers. Underlying the dominance of these forces, Mason contends, is the idea that human values no longer have foundation - an idea that, as we allow the all-pervasive presence of machines in our lives, we are tacitly coming to accept.
And, if these forces are not stopped, we will relive something even worse than the 1930s.
But there is another way. We have the power to imagine and design a better system, at the heart of which is a radical reassertion of our common humanity. All this, Mason asserts, starts with a simple, fundamental choice.
Will we accept the machine control of human beings, or will we resist it?
Moneyland
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2019
SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year
and a DAILY MAIL and TIMES book of the year
'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.'
Simon Kuper, New Statesman
2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why?
Because in 1962, some bankers in London had an idea that changed the world. That idea was called 'offshore'. It meant that, for the first time, thieves could dream big. They could take everything.
Join investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into the hidden world of the new global kleptocrats.
See the poor countries where public money is stolen and the rich ones where it is laundered and invested. Watch the crooks at work and at play, and meet their respectable, white-collar enablers. Learn how the new system works and begin to see how we can tackle it.
We Need to Talk About Putin
A The Times best book of 2019
'In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The Times
Meet the world's most dangerous man. Or is he?
Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next?
Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very heart of our daily lives.
In this essential primer, Professor Mark Galeotti uncovers the man behind the myth, addressing the key misperceptions of Putin and explaining how we can decipher his motivations and next moves. From Putin's early life in the KGB and his real relationship with the USA to his vision for the future of Russia - and the world - Galeotti draws on new Russian sources and explosive unpublished accounts to give unparalleled insight into the man at the heart of global politics.
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.
