Valdība

Varas gaiteņi atbalsojas no demokrātijas mehānisma darbības – no vietējām pilsētu domēm līdz augstākajām federālās valdības palātām. Šeit atradīsiet dziļas politisko sistēmu, publiskās politikas un pilsoniskās līdzdalības analīzes, kā arī steidzamus aicinājumus reformām un praktiskus ceļvežus, kā panākt, lai valdība labāk kalpo ikvienam.

Valdība Grāmatu kopsavilkumi

The Prince

autors: Niccolò Machiavelli • 1532

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

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🏛️ Political Realism 📖 Ruler's Handbook ⚡ Power Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🎭 Moral Flexibility

Iespaidīgās

The Prince

How to keep power when being good would cost you everything. The advice that horrified Europe.

autors: Niccolò Machiavelli 1532 144 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Realism 📖 Ruler's Handbook ⚡ Power Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🎭 Moral Flexibility

Soft Power

autors: Joseph S. Nye Jr. • 2004

Attraction is the neglected half of power. Ignoring it costs any superpower blood and credibility.

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🌍 International Relations 🧲 Soft Power 🗣️ Public Diplomacy 🎯 Grand Strategy 🏛️ Hegemony

Iespaidīgās

Soft Power

Attraction is the neglected half of power. Ignoring it costs any superpower blood and credibility.

autors: Joseph S. Nye Jr. 2004 191 lappuses

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🌍 International Relations 🧲 Soft Power 🗣️ Public Diplomacy 🎯 Grand Strategy 🏛️ Hegemony

Bloodlines of the Illuminati

autors: Fritz Springmeier • 2002

Thirteen families sit behind every government, bank, and war; follow the trusts to find them.

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🧬 Conspiracy Genealogy 🏛️ Hidden Power Structures 🕯️ Secret Society Histories ⚔️ Controlled Opposition 💰 Dynastic Wealth

Bloodlines of the Illuminati Kopsavilkums

Iespaidīgās

Bloodlines of the Illuminati

Thirteen families sit behind every government, bank, and war; follow the trusts to find them.

autors: Fritz Springmeier 2002 623 lappuses

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285 vērtējumi

🧬 Conspiracy Genealogy 🏛️ Hidden Power Structures 🕯️ Secret Society Histories ⚔️ Controlled Opposition 💰 Dynastic Wealth

Becoming Brigitte

autors: Xavier Poussard • 2025

No photos before 40. A 53% face match. France jailed the people who asked why.

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🏛️ French Politics 📰 Political Scandal 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📺 Media Manipulation 🚫 State Censorship

Iespaidīgās

Becoming Brigitte

No photos before 40. A 53% face match. France jailed the people who asked why.

autors: Xavier Poussard 2025 332 lappuses

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281 vērtējumi

🏛️ French Politics 📰 Political Scandal 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📺 Media Manipulation 🚫 State Censorship

The Concept of the Political

autors: Carl Schmitt • 1927

Politics begins not with debate but with the naming of an enemy.

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🗡️ Political Realism 📜 Critique Of Liberalism ⛪ Political Theology 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏛️ State Sovereignty

The Concept of the Political Kopsavilkums

Iespaidīgās

The Concept of the Political

Politics begins not with debate but with the naming of an enemy.

autors: Carl Schmitt 1927 144 lappuses

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🗡️ Political Realism 📜 Critique Of Liberalism ⛪ Political Theology 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏛️ State Sovereignty

Why Civil Resistance Works

autors: Erica Chenoweth • 2011

The most effective weapon against a dictator is not a gun: 200,000 people refusing to cooperate.

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🏳️ Civil Resistance 🏛️ Regime Change 🗳️ Democratization 👥 Collective Action ⚔️ Political Violence

Iespaidīgās

Why Civil Resistance Works

The most effective weapon against a dictator is not a gun: 200,000 people refusing to cooperate.

autors: Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 lappuses

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🏳️ Civil Resistance 🏛️ Regime Change 🗳️ Democratization 👥 Collective Action ⚔️ Political Violence

The Jakarta Method

autors: Vincent Bevins • 2020

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Iespaidīgās

The Jakarta Method

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

autors: Vincent Bevins 2020 320 lappuses

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Vision of the Anointed

autors: Thomas Sowell • 1995

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

Iespaidīgās

The Vision of the Anointed

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

autors: Thomas Sowell 1995 320 lappuses

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🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

autors: Thomas Sowell • 2015

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Wealth, Poverty and Politics Kopsavilkums

Iespaidīgās

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

autors: Thomas Sowell 2015 509 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Behind the Green Mask

autors: Rosa Koire • 2011

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

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🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Iespaidīgās

Behind the Green Mask

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

autors: Rosa Koire 2011 172 lappuses

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🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Suicidal Empathy

autors: Gad Saad • 2026

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

Iespaidīgās

Suicidal Empathy

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

autors: Gad Saad 2026

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

Modi, Muslims and Media

autors: Madhu Purnima Kishwar • 2014

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Governance Reform ⚔️ Information Warfare

Iespaidīgās

Modi, Muslims and Media

No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.

autors: Madhu Purnima Kishwar 2014 400 lappuses

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125 vērtējumi

🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🔥 Communal Violence 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Governance Reform ⚔️ Information Warfare

The Invisible Coup

autors: Peter Schweizer • 2026

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

Iespaidīgās

The Invisible Coup

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

autors: Peter Schweizer 2026 288 lappuses

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

For a New Liberty

autors: Murray N. Rothbard • 1973

One moral law for governments and citizens. Apply it, and the state stands convicted.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏴 Stateless Society 🚫 Victimless Crimes

Iespaidīgās

For a New Liberty

One moral law for governments and citizens. Apply it, and the state stands convicted.

autors: Murray N. Rothbard 1973 338 lappuses

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏴 Stateless Society 🚫 Victimless Crimes

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

autors: Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Kopsavilkums

Iespaidīgās

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

autors: Mark Peterson 2026 390 lappuses

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22 vērtējumi

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

Imagined Communities

autors: Benedict Anderson • 1983

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

Imagined Communities

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

autors: Benedict Anderson 1983 224 lappuses

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

The Fourth Turning

autors: William Strauss • 1996

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Fourth Turning

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

autors: William Strauss 1996 400 lappuses

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

Diplomacy

autors: Henry Kissinger • 1994

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

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🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Diplomacy

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

autors: Henry Kissinger 1994 912 lappuses

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🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Abundance

autors: Ezra Klein • 2025

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

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🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

Abundance

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

autors: Ezra Klein 2025 304 lappuses

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🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

Leviathan

autors: Thomas Hobbes • 1651

Human equality breeds universal war; the only remedy is an absolute sovereign.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 👑 Absolute Sovereignty 🌿 State Of Nature ⚖️ Natural Law

Leviathan

Human equality breeds universal war; the only remedy is an absolute sovereign.

autors: Thomas Hobbes 1651 736 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 👑 Absolute Sovereignty 🌿 State Of Nature ⚖️ Natural Law

The Republic

autors: Plato

Why be just when no one is watching? A 2,500-year-old Socratic answer that built Western philosophy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy 🌆 Utopian Thought 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

The Republic

Why be just when no one is watching? A 2,500-year-old Socratic answer that built Western philosophy.

autors: Plato 416 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy 🌆 Utopian Thought 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Indian Polity

autors: M. Laxmikanth • 2009

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

Indian Polity

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

autors: M. Laxmikanth 2009 1266 lappuses

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

The Tyranny of Merit

autors: Michael J. Sandel • 2020

Winning through talent was supposed to be just. It taught winners contempt and losers self-blame.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📈 Social Mobility 📜 Credentialism 🔨 Dignity Of Work 🎓 Higher Education Critique

The Tyranny of Merit

Winning through talent was supposed to be just. It taught winners contempt and losers self-blame.

autors: Michael J. Sandel 2020 272 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📈 Social Mobility 📜 Credentialism 🔨 Dignity Of Work 🎓 Higher Education Critique

How Democracies Die

autors: Steven Levitsky • 2018

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

How Democracies Die

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

autors: Steven Levitsky 2018 320 lappuses

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

How Civil Wars Start

autors: Barbara F. Walter • 2022

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

How Civil Wars Start

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

autors: Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 lappuses

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

The Anatomy of Fascism

autors: Robert O. Paxton • 2004

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

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🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements 🤝 Elite Complicity ⚖️ Democratic Breakdown

The Anatomy of Fascism

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

autors: Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 lappuses

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🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements 🤝 Elite Complicity ⚖️ Democratic Breakdown

The Grand Chessboard

autors: Zbigniew Brzeziński • 1997

The world's power runs through Eurasia. America lives outside it and still holds the keys.

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🗺️ Geopolitical Strategy 🏛️ Foreign Policy 🦅 American Hegemony 🌏 Eurasian Politics 🌐 Post-Cold War Order

The Grand Chessboard

The world's power runs through Eurasia. America lives outside it and still holds the keys.

autors: Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 lappuses

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🗺️ Geopolitical Strategy 🏛️ Foreign Policy 🦅 American Hegemony 🌏 Eurasian Politics 🌐 Post-Cold War Order

On Tyranny

autors: Timothy Snyder • 2017

What ordinary citizens did wrong last century, and what you can do right this one.

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🔗 Authoritarianism 🛡️ Democratic Defense ✊ Civil Resistance 📢 Media Manipulation 🤝 Civic Engagement

On Tyranny

What ordinary citizens did wrong last century, and what you can do right this one.

autors: Timothy Snyder 2017 126 lappuses

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🔗 Authoritarianism 🛡️ Democratic Defense ✊ Civil Resistance 📢 Media Manipulation 🤝 Civic Engagement

Dead Aid

autors: Dambisa Moyo • 2009

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

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🌍 African Economies 🔗 Aid Dependency 🏗️ Market Development 🇨🇳 China In Africa 🤝 Trade Not Aid

Dead Aid

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

autors: Dambisa Moyo 2009 188 lappuses

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🌍 African Economies 🔗 Aid Dependency 🏗️ Market Development 🇨🇳 China In Africa 🤝 Trade Not Aid

Politics

autors: Aristotle

Every city promises the good life. Aristotle's test for which ones actually deliver it.

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🏛️ Political Theory 🗳️ Civic Virtue 🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚖️ Mixed Constitutions 👥 Political Community

Politics

Every city promises the good life. Aristotle's test for which ones actually deliver it.

autors: Aristotle 368 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Theory 🗳️ Civic Virtue 🎯 Virtue Ethics ⚖️ Mixed Constitutions 👥 Political Community

Principles of Economics

autors: N. Gregory Mankiw • 1997

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

Principles of Economics

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

autors: N. Gregory Mankiw 1997 848 lappuses

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

Strategy

autors: Lawrence Freedman • 2013

Strategy is not a plan: a battle of minds from chimpanzee coalitions to nuclear deterrence.

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🪖 Military History ♟️ Strategic Thought 🏛️ Political Strategy 🌲 Guerrilla Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

Strategy

Strategy is not a plan: a battle of minds from chimpanzee coalitions to nuclear deterrence.

autors: Lawrence Freedman 2013 768 lappuses

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🪖 Military History ♟️ Strategic Thought 🏛️ Political Strategy 🌲 Guerrilla Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

AI Needs You

autors: Verity Harding • 2024

AI won't be fixed by engineers alone: history shows democratic boundaries spark best breakthroughs.

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⚖️ Ai Governance 🤖 Ai Ethics 📡 Technology Policy 🏛️ Public Interest Tech 💡 Innovation Policy

AI Needs You

AI won't be fixed by engineers alone: history shows democratic boundaries spark best breakthroughs.

autors: Verity Harding 2024 288 lappuses

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⚖️ Ai Governance 🤖 Ai Ethics 📡 Technology Policy 🏛️ Public Interest Tech 💡 Innovation Policy

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

autors: Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2002

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

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💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

autors: Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 495 lappuses

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💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

autors: Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

autors: Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 lappuses

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

India After Gandhi

autors: Ramachandra Guha • 2007

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

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🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

India After Gandhi

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

autors: Ramachandra Guha 2007 912 lappuses

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🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

The Rule of Law

autors: Tom Bingham • 2010

Eight standards for the rule of law. Cross them, and a lawful state becomes tyranny.

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🏛️ Rule Of Law 🧠 Legal Philosophy 📜 Constitutional Law ✊ Human Rights Law 🚪 Access To Justice

The Rule of Law

Eight standards for the rule of law. Cross them, and a lawful state becomes tyranny.

autors: Tom Bingham 2010 203 lappuses

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🏛️ Rule Of Law 🧠 Legal Philosophy 📜 Constitutional Law ✊ Human Rights Law 🚪 Access To Justice

The Logic of Political Survival

autors: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita • 2003

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

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🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Logic of Political Survival

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

autors: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2003 550 lappuses

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🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Real Book of Real Estate

autors: Robert T. Kiyosaki • 2010

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

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🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

The Real Book of Real Estate

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

autors: Robert T. Kiyosaki 2010 464 lappuses

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🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

autors: S. Jaishankar • 2020

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

autors: S. Jaishankar 2020 240 lappuses

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

Dark Alliance

autors: Gary Webb • 1998

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Dark Alliance

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

autors: Gary Webb 1998 601 lappuses

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Bad Samaritans

autors: Ha-Joon Chang • 2007

Rich nations preach free trade. Their own history is tariffs, state planning, and stolen patents.

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🏗️ Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Policy ⚖️ Neoliberal Critique 🔄 Heterodox Economics

Bad Samaritans

Rich nations preach free trade. Their own history is tariffs, state planning, and stolen patents.

autors: Ha-Joon Chang 2007 288 lappuses

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🏗️ Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Policy ⚖️ Neoliberal Critique 🔄 Heterodox Economics

Political Ideologies

autors: Andrew Heywood • 1992

Ideologies are flexible lenses that shape what you see as real, possible, and worth fighting for.

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🧠 Political Theory 📖 Political Ideologies 📜 History Of Ideas 🌐 Social Theory 🗳️ Western Political Thought

Political Ideologies

Ideologies are flexible lenses that shape what you see as real, possible, and worth fighting for.

autors: Andrew Heywood 1992 382 lappuses

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1000+ vērtējumi

🧠 Political Theory 📖 Political Ideologies 📜 History Of Ideas 🌐 Social Theory 🗳️ Western Political Thought

The Origins of Political Order

autors: Francis Fukuyama • 2011

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

4.18

10 000+

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

The Origins of Political Order

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

autors: Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 lappuses

4.18

10 000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

On Grand Strategy

autors: John Lewis Gaddis • 2018

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

3.75

5000+

🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

On Grand Strategy

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

autors: John Lewis Gaddis 2018 368 lappuses

3.75

5000+ vērtējumi

🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

The Globalization Paradox

autors: Dani Rodrik • 2010

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

4.00

1000+

🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

The Globalization Paradox

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

autors: Dani Rodrik 2010 368 lappuses

4.00

1000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

Network Propaganda

autors: Yochai Benkler • 2018

The internet did not polarize America; a lopsided propaganda machine built over decades did.

4.14

387

🗺️ Media Ecosystems 📣 Propaganda Studies 🔁 Echo Chambers 📰 Political Communication 🦠 Disinformation Studies

Network Propaganda

The internet did not polarize America; a lopsided propaganda machine built over decades did.

autors: Yochai Benkler 2018 472 lappuses

4.14

387 vērtējumi

🗺️ Media Ecosystems 📣 Propaganda Studies 🔁 Echo Chambers 📰 Political Communication 🦠 Disinformation Studies

Tried by War

autors: James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

4.09

5000+

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

autors: James M. McPherson 2008 329 lappuses

4.09

5000+ vērtējumi

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

The Struggle for Pakistan

autors: Ayesha Jalal • 2014

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

3.94

261

🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🥶 Cold War Proxy Wars 🪖 Military Rule

The Struggle for Pakistan

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

autors: Ayesha Jalal 2014 447 lappuses

3.94

261 vērtējumi

🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🥶 Cold War Proxy Wars 🪖 Military Rule

The Rise and Fall of Nations

autors: Ruchir Sharma • 2016

Onion prices and billionaire lists reveal more about a country's future than any official forecast.

4.14

2000+

🏛️ Political Economy 🔄 Economic Cycles 👥 Demographic Economics 💰 Wealth Inequality 💸 Currency Crises

The Rise and Fall of Nations

Onion prices and billionaire lists reveal more about a country's future than any official forecast.

autors: Ruchir Sharma 2016 480 lappuses

4.14

2000+ vērtējumi

🏛️ Political Economy 🔄 Economic Cycles 👥 Demographic Economics 💰 Wealth Inequality 💸 Currency Crises

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