Wenceslao, J. Gonzalez. (2015). Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics. New York:...
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Chantal Mouffe, “Agonistics. Thinking the World Politically,” London and New York, Verso...
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Valdai Discussion Club Grantees Analytical Report, Russian Elite – 2020 (Moscow,...
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Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice (Oxford University Press,...
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Bahgat Korany, Rabab El-Mahdi, Arab Spring in Egypt. Revolution and Beyond (Cairo & New York: The American University in Cairo Press,...
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Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio (eds.), International Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan,...
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In “Making democratic governance work: how regimes shape prosperity, welfare, and peace”, Harvard Professor Pippa Norris tries to untangle the intricate relationship between liberal democracy, state capacity and human security. Norris’s objective is to explain why liberal democracy should be valued as intrinsically good for prosperity, welfare and peace, the core components of human...
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Book review Professor Douglas A. Irwin’s Third Edition “Free Trade Under Fire” is a striking proof that mercantilism still rules the minds of people. The book is a sound and clear exposition of all important problems of modern international trade (environmental and labour standards, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, antidumping issues etc.), in an obvious...
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On the opposite extreme, Manent finds a secular Europe, ignorant towards its religious past. Again, fearful of differences and separations, accepting only humanitarianism and universalism, Europe renounces religion and only accepts the “European point of view” (p 106) as guiding principle. Consequently, the European identity becomes an ambiguous concept that leaves any effort of defining and limiting the integration process in a permanent state of...
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“Spare no one!” – seems to yell between the lines one of Tom Gallagher’s most recent books. Written in 2008 and published one year later, “Romania and the European Union – How the Weak Vanquished the Strong” is undesirably relevant for 2010’s Romania. Skilful national politics managed to drive an underprepared Eastern country into the...
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