Editorial Polity
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How the West Lost the Peace
The Great Transformation Since the Cold War
- Polity, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-5060-9
EAN 9781509550609
When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his award-winning history of neoliberal Europe, the renowned historian Philipp Ther searches ...
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- Polity, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 44,10 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-5830-8
EAN 9781509558308
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you're one you must be the other.That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. ...
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My Secret Brexit Diary
A Glorious Illusion
- Polity, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 450 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-5086-9
EAN 9781509550869
In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU's chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what 'Brexit' would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever.During the 1600 days of complex ...
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- Polity, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3684-9
EAN 9781509536849
The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world's largest democracies - Brazil, India, and the United States - now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe
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In today's world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings, scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of our lives. From annual university rankings, ratings agencies and fitness tracking technologies to our credit score and health status, everything and everybody is measured and evaluated. ...
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- Polity, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 140 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-4646-6
EAN 9781509546466
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China.? ...
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- Polity, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3172-1
EAN 9781509531721
Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati ...
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- Polity, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3457-9
EAN 9781509534579
From the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is one of the most urgent issues facing the West today. At the same time, viable solutions seem ever more remote, with the increasing polarization of public attitudes and political positions. In ...
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- Polity, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3408-1
EAN 9781509534081
The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos. The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellectual property, along with regular cyberattacks, threaten the fabric of modern societies. All the while, the Internet of Things increases the vulnerability of computer systems, including those controlling critical infrastructure.What can be done to ...
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- Polity, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3463-0
EAN 9781509534630
In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In this pioneering book, the renowned political ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3106-6
EAN 9781509531066
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view.He contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-3204-9
EAN 9781509532049
UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain's alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK's key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen has lent added urgency to the debate. What lies behind the British government's decision to ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-2457-0
EAN 9781509524570
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that matter, what the Party itself stands for.China's Dream is ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-2860-8
EAN 9781509528608
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today.Richard J. Bernstein argues ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1615-5
EAN 9781509516155
Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Putin's armed forces during both operations signaled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on the international stage. In this cutting-edge study, Bettina Renz provides an in-depth ...
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- Polity, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 100 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-2306-1
EAN 9781509523061
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is ...
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- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-0930-0
EAN 9781509509300
The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo, the recent crisis has been used to realize the politically impossible and to re-align ...
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Defiant Earth
The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1975-0
EAN 9781509519750
Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene - one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.The emergence of a conscious creature ...
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- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1775-6
EAN 9781509517756
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