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A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western liberal democracy, from the United States to France, Austria to the UK. This radical turn, we are told, is a last howl of rage from an aging electorate on the verge of extinction. Their leaders are fascistic and their politics anti-democratic; their existence a side-show to liberal democracy. But this version of events, as Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin show, could not be further from the truth. Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise of national populism, this lucid and deeply-researched book is a vital guide to our transformed political landscape. Challenging conventional wisdoms, Eatwell and Goodwin make a compelling case for serious, respectful engagement with the supporters and ideas of national populism - not least because it is a tide that won't be stemmed anytime soon.

A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations. This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does environmental change affect stability? Is war a universal sin of power? At a time when the threat of nuclear war looms again, this is a much-needed history intended for students of international politics, and anyone looking for a background on current events.

Nejprodávanější a nejkomplexnější publikace o Evropské unii v České republice, jejíž první dvě vydání nechybí v žádné z odborných knihoven. Autoři renomovaní badatelé v oblasti evropské politiky seznamují čtenáře s historií evropského integračního procesu, s vývojem, současnou podobou a funkcemi jednotlivých evropských institucí a s tím, ve kterých oblastech (politikách) a jakým způsobem Evropská unie působí. Kniha je zdařilou kombinací politologické analýzy a velkého množství informací. Formou srozumitelně napsaného a přehledně členěného textu nabízí kvalitního průvodce problematikou Evropské unie. Publikace vychází ve třetím, aktualizovaném, výrazně rozšířeném a doplněném vydání. Zahrnuje události až do konce roku 2017 a čtenáři v něm rovněž naleznou řadu nových dat, grafů, tabulek, schémat a infoboxů a navíc praktický jmenný a věcný rejstřík. Kniha je určena nejen odborníkům, vysokoškolským studentům a profesionálům zabývajícím se z různých hledisek evropskou integrací, ale také širší veřejnosti, která má zájem získat co nejvíce kvalifikovaných informací o Evropské unii v širším historickém a politickém kontextu.

Vladimir Putin o sobě říká, že je věřící a má silný vztah k ruské pravoslavné církvi. Je-li tomu tak, možná se každý večer před usnutím modlí a táže Boha: Proč jen jsi na Ukrajině nestvořil nějaké hory? Těmito slovy začíná kniha V zajetí geografie, která byla přeložena do několika desítek jazyků a nepřestává budit zájem u široké laické i odborné veřejnosti. Tento brilantní průvodce moderními dějinami na poměrně malé ploše shrnuje to nejdůležitější, co potřebujeme vědět o současném světě. Geografické poměry ovlivnily vývoj celého lidstva a dodnes mají výrazný vliv na rozhodnutí a chování politiků a státníků. Rozhodování těch, kdo stojí v čele sedmi miliard obyvatel této planety, vždycky bylo a bude v nemalé míře určováno řekami, horami, pouštěmi, jezery, oceány a celou řadou dalších geografických a geopolitických faktorů a zákonitostí, jež předurčují naše možnosti - jako to činily od úsvitu věků. Pokud vás zajímá, proč je Putin posedlý Krymem a Ukrajinou, proč byly Spojené státy předurčené stát se světovou velmocí, co stojí za čínskou expanzí nebo proč se Čína nemůže vzdát Tibetu, a jste ochotni se na svět podívat bez předsudků a ideologické předpojatosti, Marshallova kniha je právě pro vás. V deseti kapitolách, věnovaných Rusku, Číně, Spojeným státům, Evropě, Africe, Blízkému východu, Indii a Pákistánu, Japonsku a Koreji, Jižní Americe a Arktidě, z nichž ke každé je přiložena mapa, autor přístupným a přitažlivým způsobem objasňuje v širších souvislostech nejdůležitější okolnosti, které ovlivňují minulost, přítomnost a budoucnost jednotlivých regionů a současných globálních velmocí. Kniha V zajetí geografie je inteligentním úvodem do geopolitiky našeho čím dál složitějšího, chaotičtějšího a provázanějšího světa. Tim Marshall patří k předním odborníkům na problematiku mezinárodního dění, ve kterém se už přes čtvrt století pohybuje jako novinář. Pracoval pro BBC a rozhlasovou stanici LBC/IRN, působil též jako zahraniční redaktor televizní stanice Sky News. Přinášel reportáže ze třiceti zemí a zpravodajsky pokrýval konflikty v Chorvatsku, Bosně, Makedonii, Kosovu, Afghánistánu, Iráku, Libanonu, Sýrii a Izraeli. Jeho blog Foreign Matters se roku 2010 dostal do užší nominace na Orwellovu cenu. Své články a analýzy publikuje v periodikách, jako je The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent či Daily Telegraph. Je autorem knih Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic (Stínohra: Svržení Slobodana Miloševiće; v bývalé Jugoslávii se titul stal bestsellerem) a Dirty Northern B*st*rds! and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britains Football Chants (Špinaví p*rch*nti ze severu" a jiné historky z ochozů aneb Co se v Británii skanduje na fotbale). Je zakladatelem serveru TheWhatandtheWhy.com. "Stručně řečeno: jedna z nejlepších knih o geopolitice, jakou si jen můžete představit - když ji čtete, jako by se vám před očima rozjasňovalo Marshall přistupuje k problémům s chladnou hlavou a jasnou myslí; má až nadpřirozenou schopnost podat širší souvislosti přístupným a uceleným způsobem Vzhledem ke složitosti dané problematiky je až neskutečné, jak svižně se kniha čte Nenapadá mě žádná jiná kniha, která by poměry ve světě objasňovala tak skvěle" Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of president calls the news media the "enemy of the American people," or sees a moral equivalence between violent neo-Nazi protesters in paramilitary formation and residents of a college town defending the racial and ethnic diversity of their homes? Yet, whatever our concerns about the current president, we can be assured that the Constitution offers safeguards to protect against lasting damage-or can we?How to Save a Constitutional Democracy mounts an urgent argument that we can no longer afford to be complacent. Drawing on a rich array of other countries' experiences with democratic backsliding, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq show how constitutional rules can either hinder or hasten the decline of democratic institutions. The checks and balances of the federal government, a robust civil society and media, and individual rights-such as those enshrined in the First Amendment-do not necessarily succeed as bulwarks against democratic decline. Rather, Ginsburg and Huq contend, the sobering reality for the United States is that, to a much greater extent than is commonly realized, the Constitution's design makes democratic erosion more, not less, likely. Its structural rigidity has had the unforeseen consequence of empowering the Supreme Court to fill in some details-often with doctrines that ultimately facilitate rather than inhibit the infringement of rights. Even the bright spots in the Constitution-the First Amendment, for example-may have perverse consequences in the hands of a deft communicator, who can degrade the public sphere by wielding hateful language that would be banned in many other democracies. But we-and the rest of the world-can do better. The authors conclude by laying out practical steps for how laws and constitutional design can play a more positive role in managing the risk of democratic decline.

Kniha Návrat parlamentu je věnována poslednímu československému parlamentu v období od listopadu 1989 po zánik společného státu v roce 1992. Federální shromáždění vzniklo jako produkt Pražského jara 1968, avšak jeho aparát a pravidla se utvářely v normalizačním období. Od počátku svobodné éry se utkávalo s charismatickým prezidentem Václavem Havlem. Noví poslanci se učili, jak vzdorovat vládě i nepřízni veřejného mínění (otázka platů poslanců, parlamentních prázdnin apod.). Na jeho půdě se zakládaly strany, které neodrážely rozložení sil ve federální vládě, vycházely tu nové politické hvězdy. Zároveň zde ale narůstaly československé rozdíly a vzájemné politicky motivované národnostní napětí. Autoři dokazují, že podíváme-li se na první polistopadové roky skrze instituci Federálního shromáždění, zažijeme jinou revoluci roku 1989, než jsme z ustálených vyprávění zvyklí, a z dosud neznámé perspektivy spatříme první transformační měsíce i rozdělení Československa. Předností knihy je skutečnost, že zohledňuje nejen českou, ale zároveň i prozatím velmi neznámou slovenskou perspektivu.

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement. In the year 2018, it seems as if women's anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women's March, and before the #MeToo movement, women's anger was not only politically catalytic-but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women's slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men. With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel-from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Here Traister explores women's anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is perceived based on its owner; as well as the history of caricaturing and delegitimizing female anger; and the way women's collective fury has become transformative political fuel-as is most certainly occurring today. She deconstructs society's (and the media's) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of their resulting repercussions. Highlighting a double standard perpetuated against women by all sexes, and its disastrous, stultifying effect, Traister's latest is timely and crucial. It offers a glimpse into the galvanizing force of women's collective anger, which, when harnessed, can change history.

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts - economic, social and cultural - with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervour of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world's most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself - and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the 20th century.

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government. LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect’s connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads; money and sex. WASHINGTON, January 2017. Steele’s explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, supporting, and assisting' Trump for years and that they have compromising information about him. Trump responds on twitter, 'FAKE NEWS.' In Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump’s decades-long relationship with Russia and presents the gripping inside story of the dossier. It features exclusive new material and draws on sources from the intelligence community. Harding tells an astonishing story of offshore money, sketchy real-estate deals, a Miss Universe Pageant, mobsters, money laundering, hacking and Kremlin espionage. He shines a light on powerful Russian players like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have come from Vladimir Putin himself. The special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, has already indicted several of the American protagonists, including Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. More charges are likely as the crisis engulfs Trump’s administration. This book gets to the heart of the biggest political scandal of the modern era. Russia is reshaping the world order to its advantage: this is something that should trouble us all

'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le Carre Who is Sergei Skripal? Agent. Prisoner. Target. The Skripal Files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the complex and mysterious victim from this year's most explosive news story. Mark Urban interviewed Skripal in the months before the poisoning and explains how Skripal's life has come to define the new spy war between Russia and the West. 4 March 2018, Salisbury, England. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were enjoying a rare and peaceful Sunday spent together, completely unaware that they had been poisoned with the deadly nerve agent Novichok. Hours later both were found slumped on a park bench close to death. Following their attempted murders on British soil, Russia was publicly accused by the West of carrying out the attack, marking a new low for international relations between the two since the end of the Cold War. The Skripal Files is the definitive account of how Skripal's story fits into the wider context of the new spy war between Russia and the West. The book explores the time Skripal spent as a spy in the Russian military intelligence, how he was turned to work as an agent by MI6, his imprisonment in Russia and his eventual release as part of a spy-swap that would bring him to Salisbury where, on that fateful day, he and his daughter found themselves fighting for their lives. 'With regard to traitors, they will kick the bucket on their own, I assure you . . . Whatever thirty pieces of silver those people may have gotten, they will stick in their throat.' Vladimir Putin, 2010

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. Commerce may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Lewis finds the linchpins of the system-those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. And he asks them what keeps them up at night.

The phenomenal new book from the international bestselling author of The Big Short'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing. People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk. And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders. In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics. In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.

In the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes, and turn social networks into battlefields. Facebook, Google and Twitter - where our politics now takes place - have lost control and are struggling to claw it back. Prepare for a new strain of democracy. A world of datafied citizens, real-time surveillance, enforced wellness and pre-crime. Where switching your mobile platform will have more impact on your life than switching your government. Where freedom and privacy are seen as incompatible with social wellbeing and compulsory transparency. As our lives migrate online, we have become increasingly vulnerable to digital platforms that sell your attention to the highest bidder. Our laws don't cover what is happening and our politicians don't understand it. But if we don't change the rulebook now, we may not get another chance.

Vaclav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer's unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Vaclav Havel's meditation on political dissent - the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it - would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.

Říká se, že když hodíte žábu do vařící vody, pokusí se vyskočit. Pokud vodu postupně zahříváte, žába si toho nevšimne a nakonec se uvaří. Něco podobného se děje v české politice. Veřejnost si má postupně zvyknout na to, že se ohýbá ústava, odpovědné vládnutí se nahrazuje populistickými sny a sliby, nenormální se stává normálním a komunisté jsou zpátky u moci. Nová kniha Petr Fialy komentuje aktuální vývoj v české politice, od postupného rozpadu Sobotkovy vlády až po získání důvěry vlády Andreje Babiše, která se opírá o komunisty. Jako politik a politolog ve svých komentářích přesvědčivě odhaluje záměrné oslabování demokracie a propagandistické uspávání veřejnosti, která má přivyknout na nové mocenské hry prezidenta Zemana a premiéra Babiše, na porušování ústavních pravidel, zvětšující se státní byrokracii, stále menší míru svobody a změnu naší zahraničně politické orientace. Ukazuje programovou a hodnotovou prázdnotu současné vlády a její „manažérská“ selhání. Vyvrací výmluvy, kterými se levice snaží obájit, proč svoji vládu opírá o komunistickou stranu. Není to však kniha negativistická a pouze kritická. Přináší politickou alternativu. Návrat k odpovědné politice, postavené na hodnotách a konkrétním programu. Politice, která občanům nabízí uskutečnění měřitelných cílů. Proti nesplnitelným snům, těkání od tématu k tématu a projídání naší budoucnosti ukazuje cestu, která Českou republiku přivede mezi nejúspěšnější země světa. Je to jediný důstojný politický cíl, který si v roce stého výročí naší moderní státnosti můžeme dát.

Podle britského Guardianu budeme jednou dvojici knih Původ politického řádu a Politický řád a politický úpadek Francise Fukuyamy vnímat jako životní dílo tohoto amerického politologa. Ve druhé knize s podtitulem Od průmyslové revoluce po globalizaci demokracie sleduje Fukuyama historický vývoj institucí moderního státu a jejich selhávání za období od Francouzské revoluce až po současnost. Páteř knihy tvoří analýzy historie klasických moderních států (Británie, Německo, Francie, USA) z hlediska vývoje jejich institucí, korigovaných mechanismy právního řádu a demokratické odpovědnosti. Z těchto analýz pak vychází rozbor historie politického vývoje dalších zemí různých kontinentů: od zkoumání Řecka a Itálie jako protipólů již zmíněných evropských států přes bizarní vývoj různých zemí Latinské Ameriky, dále vybraných afrických států (zejména Keni, Tanzanie a Nigérie) a nejvýznamnějších východoasijských států (Japonsko, Čína a Indonésie). Autor rovněž analyzuje vývoj a odkaz kolonialismu v Latinské Americe, Africe i Asii a pokouší se vysvětlit, proč se některým regionům dařilo a rozvinuly se rychleji než jiné. Velmi podrobná je studie historie a perspektiv Číny a zejména Spojených států, jež jsou díky důkladné dokumentaci a četným analýzám pro podobné zkoumání jedinečným laboratorním materiálem. 40 tabulek, grafů a ilustrací

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. 'I think you've always been fair.' - President Donald J. Trump, in a call to Bob Woodward, August 14, 2018 'He is the master and I'd trust him over politicians of either party any day of the week.' -Peter Baker, New York Times 'His work has been factually unassailable . . . In an age of `alternative facts' and corrosive tweets about `fake news,' Woodward is truth's gold standard.' - Jill Abramson, The Washington Post 'Fear depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner's manual.' The Guardian 'I wonder how many journalists have arrived in Washington over the years dreaming of becoming the next Bob Woodward . . . Though his books are often sensational, he is the opposite of sensationalist. He's diligent, rigorous, fastidious about the facts, and studiously ethical. There's something almost monastic about his method . . . He's Washington's chronicler in chief.' - Nick Bryant, BBC 'I've been on the receiving end of a Bob Woodward book. There were quotes in it I didn't like. But never once-never-did I think Woodward made it up. Anonymous sources have looser lips and may take liberties. But Woodward always plays is straight. Someone told it to him.' - Ari Fleisher, White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office.

Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years? How can the history of ideas help us understand our present? In this bold and far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing deep on history, philosophy, psychology and economics, he shows how some of the fundamental assumptions that defined the modern world have dissolved. With advances in medicine and the spread of digital and military technology, the divisions between mind and body, war and peace are no longer so clear-cut. In the murky new space between mind and body, between war and peace, lie nervous states: with all of us relying increasingly on feeling rather than fact. In a book of profound insight and astonishing breadth, William Davies reveals the origins of this new political reality. Nervous States is a compelling and essential guide to the turbulent times we are living through.