Comparativa

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document...

From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....

A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia....

This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....

In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....

No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....

Populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? Is it a threat to democracy? Find out....

Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who has been close to Chomsky for roughly half a century and talked with him many hundreds of times, spans a wide range of topics....

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today....

When historians want to find out about the ideas that motivated American foreign policy in the early years of the twenty-first century, they would do well to read this book...

From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....

Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....

The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is part of a broader pattern....

Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it.

The United States and China are locked in a “cold tech war", and the winner will end up dominating the 21st century. America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents....

Beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history, a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of current debate....

In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them....