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Since the dawn of the 21st century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers – especially China – threaten to unravel today’s Western-led world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But this is a Western illusion. Surveying 5000 years of global history, political scientist Amitav Acharya reveals that world order existed long before the rise of the West. Moving from ancient Sumer, India, Greece, and Mesoamerica, through medieval caliphates and Eurasian empires into the present, Acharya shows that humanitarian values, economic interdependence, and rules of inter-state conduct emerged across the globe over millennia. History suggests order will endure even as the West retreats. Instead of fearing the future, the West should learn from history and cooperate with the Rest to forge a more equitable order.
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From a brilliant investigative journalist – formerly a Home Office insider – comes a searing, nuanced, powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system.
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An insider’s guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.
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The Baltic’s time has come. It is not only critical to Europe’s security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent’s future. The Baltic offers by far the most successful examples of the reintegration of Europe’s old capitalist and communist blocs. It abounds in pioneering environmental initiatives, ranging from the world’s first geological ‘forever’ storage facility for nuclear waste in Finland to its first ‘zero waste’ community, on the Danish island of Bornholm. Brutalised by the twentieth century, the rebounding economies of Poland, Finland and Estonia are case studies in the mobilisation of social resources and the transformative power of technology. This book explores the history, their culture, their peculiarities and national dilemmas of all nine Baltic countries.
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The compelling story of Germany’s decline – where it all went wrong and how it could bounce back.
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The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to take on a new authoritarian axis-Russia, China, and Iran.
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At a time when the world is searching for answers to extremism and polarization, The Centre Must Hold shows a more effective brand of politics.
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Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick pose the question of whether the UK’s constitution sufficiently protects our democracy against an authoritarian takeover. Put simply, they explore what would happen if a leader refused to leave office once voted out in a General Election. In the light of the resurgence of the far right across Europe, the rhetoric of the latest General Election, and the legacies of the Boris Johnson years, Hennessy and Blick ask whether there are sufficient contingency plans in place for such an eventuality. Mapping out the processes which would occur after a leader refuses to step down, and the hypothetical actions of several key players – including the King, Speaker of the House, and members of the Cabinet, Judiciary, Treasury, Secret Service and House of Lords – they analyse the legislation that aims to protect parliamentary democracy.
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How do you see Britain? It’s tempting to think of the UK as a fundamentally stable and successful nation. But events of the past few years, from Brexit to exposés of imperial history, have begun to spark fierce public debates about whether that is true. Is Britain, just a marginal northern European island nation, marked by injustices, corruption and with a bloody history of slavery, repression and looting? And yet UK politics, media, and public opinion live constantly in the shadow of old myths, Second World War era nostalgia, and a belief in supposedly core British values of tolerance, decency and fair play. In this book, Michael Peel digs into the national consciousness with the perspective of distance to pull apart the ways in which we British have become unmoored from crucial truths about ourselves.
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Across the globe, democracy is in crisis – in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today – from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. Timely, incisive and wholly original, ‘The Challenges of Democracy’ applies the brilliance of ‘the cleverest man in Britain’ to the most urgent and far-reaching political issue of our day.
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Beginning with the mystery of Alexei Navalny’s murder in the Arctic Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia, the book tells the life story of the Russian opposition leader who was a perpetual thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. It is a warts-and-all biography of Navalny, a highly charismatic but controversial figure who flirted with far-right Russian nationalists at one point, told by a larger-than-life journalist, based in London and Kyiv, who met Navalny three times.
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For millennia land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. Michael Albertus shows that who owns the land determines whether a society will be equal or unequal, whether it will develop or decline, and whether it will safeguard or sacrifice its environment.
