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Agresja Rosji na Ukrainę z 24 lutego 2022 roku zmieniła wszystko. Z jednej strony przyniosła krach imperialnych rojeń Moskwy, z drugiej—spowodowała solidarną i konsekwentną reakcję państw zachodnich. To daje nadzieję na przyszłość, choć spokojnie już nie będzie. Wojna ostatecznie zakończyła belle époque w dziejach naszego regionu i pozbawiła liderów Zachodu złudzeń. Otworzyła też jednak przed Polską szansę na zajęcie bardziej poczesnego miejsca w Europie.

After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries. More than 120,000 U.S. servicemen deployed to China, where Chiang Kai-shek's government carried out massive programs to provide them with housing, food, and interpreters. But, as Zach Fredman uncovers in The Tormented Alliance, a military alliance with the United States means a military occupation by the United States.

No major arena of US governance is more elitist than foreign policy. International relations barely surface in election campaigns, and policymakers take little input from Congress. For much of the twentieth century, officials, activists, and academics worked to foster an informed public that would embrace participation in foreign policy as a civic duty. Every Citizen a Statesman recounts an abandoned effort to create a democratic foreign policy.

Dieser Beitrag ist für alle gehorsamen, unterwürfigen Gläubigen einer Staatsreligion, die sich seit Ewigkeiten einem destruktiven, unmenschlichen Herrschaftssystem unterwerfen und damit jede evolutionäre Neuausrichtung der Gesellschaft blockieren. Viele Staatsgefangene sind in Denkstrukturen gefangen, die sie durch jahrelange Konditionierung und Indoktrinierung über die Medien glauben lassen, dass ohne die Staatssekte kein Überleben auf der Erde möglich ist.

Wladimir Putins kaltblütiger Angriff auf die Ukraine vom 24. Februar 2022 besiegelte das Ende einer Welt, wie wir sie kannten. Der Traum vom Wandel durch Handel mit Russland war geplatzt, Putins Maske gefallen. Seitdem ächzt Deutschland unter der Energiekrise und einer hohen Inflation. Doch wie konnte es so weit kommen? Und was ist zu tun, damit sich die westlichen Demokratien angesichts einer neuen Weltordnung behaupten? Messerscharf analysiert Top-Ökonom Thomas Mayer die fatalen Fehlentwicklungen der Wirtschafts- und Außenpolitik Deutschlands unter der Führung von Angela Merkel.

Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989—but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.

George Soros es atacado de forma constante debido a su incansable y valiente compromiso con la sociedad abierta, los derechos humanos, la libertad de prensa y la democracia liberal. La extrema derecha, los antisemitas, los políticos nacionalistas populistas y defensores de las teorías de la conspiración son solo algunos de sus detractores.

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East. When Islamist parties rise to power through free elections, the United States has too often been ambivalent or opposed, preferring instead pliable dictators. With this legacy of democratic disrespect in mind, and drawing on new interviews with top American officials, Shadi Hamid explores universal questions of morality, power, and hypocrisy.

La Cina è davvero "vicina" come recitava il titolo di un vecchio film d'autore? No, sostiene Giada Messetti nel suo "Nella testa del Dragone". È, anzi, molto lontana. Soprattutto, è diversa. Perché ― continua l'autrice, sinologa, che in Cina ha vissuto sei anni ― esistono dieci, cento, mille Cine. Esplorarle è come fare un viaggio su una macchina del tempo, passando da villaggi remoti rimasti all'epoca preindustriale a smart city avveniristiche dove, fermo al semaforo in motorino, può capitare che un drone ti intimi di indossare il casco se vuoi evitare una multa salata.

In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity. Katharine M. Millar provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror.

Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking, and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine.

The Nations of NATO explores national policies within the Atlantic Alliance. It examines the foreign policies of sixteen allies, focusing on issues such as their strategic cultures, relationship with the US, contributions to NATO operations, levels of defense spending, domestic challenges, and decision-making processes. The recent crisis in Ukraine has without doubt reinvigorated NATO as a military alliance, but over the last decade it has also been affected by a number of challenges, both endogenous and exogenous.

In China's Next Act, Scott M. Moore re-envisions China's role in the world, with a focus on sustainability and technology. Moore argues that these increasingly pressing, shared global challenges are reshaping China's economy and foreign policy, and consequently, cannot be tackled without China.

The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA.

In The Pursuit of Dominance, Christopher J. Fettweis examines the grand strategy of previous superpowers to see how they maintained, or failed to maintain, their status. Over the course of six cases, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire, he seeks guidance from the past for present US policymakers. Like the United States, the examples Fettweis uses were the world's strongest powers at particularly moments in time, and they were hoping to stay that way. Rather than focusing on those powers' rise or how they ruled, however, Fettweis looks at how they sought to maintain their power.

"Ogni società, qualunque sistema politico abbia, si trova eternamente in bilico tra un passato che rappresenta la sua memoria e una visione del futuro che ispira la sua evoluzione. Lungo questa strada, è indispensabile avere una leadership: occorre prendere decisioni, conquistarsi fiducia, mantenere promesse, proporre una rotta da seguire." Tra coloro che meglio hanno incarnato quest'arte del buon governo, Henry Kissinger, diplomatico e statista leggendario, annovera sei personaggi che hanno forgiato la storia del secondo Novecento."

Si en sus anteriores libros Pedro Baños ofrecía un lúcido análisis de las relaciones de poder, esta nueva obra no solo describe con detalle las excepcionales circunstancias que se están dando en el presente y las que padeceremos en el futuro inmediato en nuestro mundo hiperconectado, sino que va mucho más allá y propone soluciones que sirvan a todas las personas, en cualquier país, convirtiéndose en un manual práctico imprescindible.

Las fórmulas del siglo pasado ya no son válidas. Hemos entrado de lleno en la era digital, una verdadera revolución industrial...

Por qué en España estamos perdiendo la batalla contra la violencia y el crimen.

"España no está preparada para afrontar la nueva delincuencia que se ha impuesto en buena parte de Europa".

"Todo va bien. Nada discute el mensaje. Nadie discute el mensaje. Pobre del que discuta el mensaje".

En la era digital y globalizada, la delincuencia se ha extendido y profesionalizado con una fuerza y velocidad desconocidas, pero el modelo policial encargado de combatirla permanece desfasado, paralizado por el miedo y la corrección política...

What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we're no longer the only major player? In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power.