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The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Av Alastair Smith, Bruce de Mesquita
Häftad, 2022
250 kr
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"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." -Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do …
The Invention of Power
Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Inbunden, 2022
285 kr
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Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others.Yet in The Invention of Power, Bruce Bueno de …
The Invention of Power
Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Häftad, 2024
185 kr
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In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political …
Spoils of War
Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents
Av Alastair Smith, Bruce de Mesquita
Inbunden, 2016
429 kr
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Why are America's most beloved presidents also our most dangerous?It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate- Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few- oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps they were driven by …
