"During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term "globalization," they identified a shift t…
Contemporary scenes of human conflict, cruelty and catastrophe have prompted calls for the international community to intervene in defence of our common humanity. At the same time, the 2003 US-led military intervention in Iraq to oust a domestic tyrant, Saddam Hussein, has gener…
2020: China erlebt eine gravierende Krise, ausgelöst durch Konflikte zwischen armer und reicher Bevölkerung, und verschwindet von der Weltbühne. 2050: Polen überflügelt Deutschland wirtschaftlich und politisch. 2080: Solarstrom aus dem All sichert die globale Energieversorgung. …
"In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric is to miss the bigger, more impo…
In this book, the author argues that citizenship rights will have to extend beyond nationality and state territory if liberal democracies are to remain true to their own principles of inclusive membership and equal basic rights. Definition and extension of citizenship rights are…
"2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lo…
This title offers a rigorous overview of 23 of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population.
