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Matt Bevan, host of the wildly popular podcast If You're Listening, takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the murky waters of history, memory and the stories we tell ourselves. Bevan explores how history is often a patchwork of conflicting accounts, misremembered details and outright myths. With wit, curiosity and a knack for uncovering the unexpected, Bevan dives into tales of lemon trees conjured by Stalin, Bob Hawke's emotional misstep on Tiananmen Square and the bizarre flight of a German teenager into Soviet airspace.

Impossible de parler de géopolitique sans évoquer l’idée de puissance. Rapports de force, zones d’influence, conflits – politiques, économiques, militaires – sont la matière des relations internationales. La puissance, qu’elle menace ou qu’elle protège, détermine les conditions d’existence des États et des populations. Le livre s’interroge d’abord sur les critères de la puissance : ses instruments, ses manifestations et jusqu’aux illusions qu’elle engendre. Il dresse ensuite un état des lieux de la planète, panorama impeccablement documenté et actuel des principales entités étatiques et des enjeux régionaux saillants.

Sie spricht mit den Taliban, begleitet ukrainische Soldaten an der Front und erzählt die Geschichten von mutigen Frauen in Afghanistan, die in Untergrund-Schulen unterrichten. Katrin Eigendorf ist dort unterwegs, wo die Welt ins Wanken gerät. Es sind existenzielle, häufig auch schmerzhafte Begegnungen mit Menschen, deren Geschichten die Reporterin erzählt. Nicht aus der Distanz, nur aus der Nähe, aus der eigenen Anschauung und Anteilnahme lässt sich über Krieg berichten.

En este libro, Noam Chomsky expone las causas de la invasión de Ucrania iniciada por Rusia en febrero de 2022, partiendo de dos premisas fundamentales: por un lado, estamos ante «un grave crimen de guerra por el que hay que buscar explicaciones, pero que no tiene ni justificaciones ni...

Make Enterprise Great Again: The Gods Must Be Crazy digs into the foundations of capitalism and traces the ideals, triumphs and zeitgeist of the Roosevelt years in order to “Build Back Better”.

Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet, as Tim Nicholas Rühlig argues in China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistencies - in combination with China's growing power - will have dramatic effects on the future shape of international order.

With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time.

The South China Sea is well known as a hotspot of geopolitical tensions. But it is more than just that. It has been a critical node and nexus of trade, strategic rivalries, and the exchange of cultures and ideas for at least a millennium.

'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the...

Dans un monde où les tensions nucléaires refont surface, Michel Fortmann explore les menaces contemporaines qui pèsent sur la sécurité internationale. Des essais nucléaires de la Corée du Nord au programme nucléaire iranien, en passant par les tensions croissantes entre la Russie, l'OTAN et les États-Unis, l'ombre du champignon atomique plane à nouveau.

One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back. 1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future -...

Dans moins d’une génération, le monde basculera: la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et ses « nouvelles routes de la soie » redessinent l’ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique. Amorcée en 2013, la Belt and Road Initiative déploie depuis la Chine un ensemble multiforme d’initiatives économiques, commerciales, géopolitiques, diplomatiques et normatives — construction d’infrastructures de transport, développement des flux commerciaux, connectivité accrue — qui suscitent spéculations et inquiétudes.

Is America on the brink of civil war? Could foreign cyber plots turn Americans against one another and cause a disastrous domestic conflict? What would happen if the lights went out and the technology we rely upon to run American life is no longer available? The present dangers are real. The US is more vulnerable to destructive foreign interference today than it has been in over a century. As Russia and China realize they can’t win shooting wars against the US, they have devised new and cunning ways to destabilize American politics and cripple the US economy.

Il nostro destino è scritto nelle carte geografiche, e nella loro storia. Ogni crisi vicina e lontana ci costringe a capire la fisicità del mondo in cui viviamo. La geografia e la storia come le abbiamo studiate sui banchi di scuola non ci bastano più. Dobbiamo guardare "oltre", penetrare il significato nascosto delle carte geografiche, incrociare il paesaggio terrestre con la storia delle civiltà. Ci servono mappe intelligenti per orientarci a capire dove siamo ora, e dove andremo domani. La storia antica riappare negli atlanti, come una trama invisibile che si ripete.

'Essential reading for anyone trying to understand where the next influence operation is being built' ELIOT HIGGINS, founder of Bellingcat 'Revelatory . . . will fundamentally change how you understand modern power' KELLY CLANCY, author of Playing with Reality __________________________________...

Quella che sta avvenendo è la più imponente operazione di invasione e colonizzazione della storia dell'umanità, che farebbe impallidire le mitologie su Genghis Khan o le manie di grandezza di Hitler, ma che non teme nemmeno la concorrenza storica del colonialismo dei secoli scorsi. Non è un'esagerazione, soprattutto se consideriamo che mentre quei fatti e fenomeni storici avevano delle “bandiere chiare”, ovvero si sapeva più o meno esattamente chi attaccava chi e quali aree occupava, oggi quest'aggressione è “senza stati e senza bandiere”. I conquistatori di oggi sono grandi ...

En el año 2000, el libro Plan Colombia La paz Armada, de Kintto Lucas, señalaba que en pocos años el conflicto interno colombiano entraría en una fase desconocida, en la cual se aplicarían bombardeos selectivos a campamentos guerrilleros y se involucraría a Ecuador en lo que denominó un Kosovo andino. Cuando Lucas en una entrevista le planteó a Raúl Reyes la hipótesis de los bombardeos selectivos, el líder de las FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) dijo que era imposible utilizar esa tecnología en la selva colombiana donde se movía la guerrilla. Ocho años ...

Quantos países existem no mundo? A resposta é: cerca de duzentos. Agora pense no ano de 2150. Quantos haverá? Qual futuro o mapa-múndi de hoje sugere? A imagem mais conhecida do mapa-múndi, a que é ensinada desde a escola, mostra territórios delimitados por convenções. Cada pedaço de terra com sua própria bandeira, hino, traje e culinária típicas. Mas, como defende o historiador canadense Quinn Slobodian, é um erro ver a divisão do mundo de maneira uniforme e estática.

Depuis le 24 février 2022, 6 heures du matin, on ne voit plus le président de l'Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, qu'en pantalon de treillis, tee-shirt et veste kaki. Malgré les tentatives d'assassinat, il reste à Bankova, le siège de la présidence en plein coeur de Kyiv, la capitale ukrainienne. Le décor pompeux de l'édifice est devenu surréaliste : des sacs de sable obstruent les fenêtres, les gardes du corps ont troqué leurs costumes pour des gilets pare-balles.

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the...