Politisk struktur

Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt.The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology.The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work.

Der findes en magtelite i Danmark. Denne bog fortæller, hvem den består af, og hvem det dermed er, der styrer Danmark.De 423 mest magtfulde danskere træffer de tungeste beslutninger i politik, erhvervsliv, fagforeninger og kulturliv. Til sammen danner de et lukket netværk i toppen af det danske samfund.Sociologerne Christoph Houman Ellersgaard og Anton Grau Larsen har brugt fire år på at kortlægge mere end tusind bestyrelser, fonde, udvalg, vl-grupper og andre steder, hvor magtfulde mennesker mødes, og de kan nu sætte navn og ansigt på en inderkreds af erhvervsdirektører, fagforeningsbosser, toppolitikere og universitetsfolk m.fl., som kender hinanden på kryds og tværs og ved fælles hjælp sætter kursen for alle os andre. Denne bog er en fascinerende rejse ind i magtens inderste cirkler, og den afliver myten om, at vi lever i et egalitært samfund, hvor den brede befolkning bestemmer det meste. Læs også, hvorfor Jørgen Mads Clausen, Bente Sorgenfrey og Dronning Margrethe er med i inderkredsen, mens folk som Lars Larsen, Asger Aamund, Dennis Kristensen og Pia Kjærsgaard er ude i kulden. Om forfatterne: Anton Grau Larsen (f. 1983) og Christoph Ellersgaard (f.1981) er begge sociologer og ph.d. ved Københavns Universitet. De har tidligere udgivet en række videnskabelige artikler om danske topdirektører og arbejdet medudvikling af videnskabelige metoder.Markus Bernsen (f. 1980) er journalist på Weekendavisen, hvor han skriver om videnskab og samfund. BA i filosofi fra Syddansk Universitet og uddannet journalist fra Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole og Hong Kong University.

The world is going to hell in a handcart; at least with this book by bestselling author of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, you get to choose how it ends. The perfect stocking filler

Yuval Noah Harari udforsker i denne nervepirrende bog 21 aktuelle emner. Han undersøger, hvordan man som kollektiv og som individ kan forstå og håndtere nutidens konstante og forvirrende forandringer. Hvordan kan vi beskytte os mod atomkrig, naturkatastrofer og ny teknologi? Hvad kan vi gøre ved fake news-epidemien eller terrortruslen? Hvad bør vi lære vores børn? Er vi overhovedet stadig i stand til at forstå den verden, vi har skabt? 21 ting du bør vide om det 21. århundrede er en udforskning af, hvad det betyder at være menneske i en forvirrende tidsalder.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic.

A how-to guide that inspired the Arab Spring.

Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book is the story of the life of Mao. It is full of revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing completely unknown Mao.

Offentlige ledere skal være i stand til at se sig selv som en del af noget, der er større end dem selv. For meningen med deres arbejde er, at de skal bidrage til kritisk at vedligeholde, udvikle og tilpasse det, som er større end dem selv, nemlig samtidens forestillinger om det gode samfund. Det er i denne kontekst, der dagligt skal bedrives ledelse.Gyldendal Business Singler er korte og koncentrerede tekster, som du kan læse for hurtigt at sætte dig ind i et emne. Efterfølgende kan man opsøge mere viden, hvis man vil have emnet uddybet.Denne single er en udvidet udgave af kapitel 2 i Kurt Klaudi Klausen Strategisk ledelse i det offentlige, Gyldendal Public 2014.

Lene Andersen er mig bekendt den første danske debattør, der har lavet en systemisk analyse af, hvor vi er på vej hen; både som borgere og som danskere, der er en del af en global sammenhæng.Lene Andersen ser de sammenhænge, der dominerer de dybe forandringer i vores tid. Hun har både en kritisk og en kompetent teknologisk fantasi, og desuden har hun tænksomme bud på, hvordan vi selv kan være med til at forme den fremtid, vi gerne vil have.Professor Steen Rasmussen, SDU Center for Fundamental Living Technologyfra bogens forord

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it so good, with more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes, and the vast majority struggle to survive. Where a decent standard of living for all seems like an impossible dream.How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super-rich to buy elections and politicians? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? How can we let it happen any longer? We must demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins.It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision of what would be possible if the political revolution took place. If we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and work to create a society that provides them. This isn't some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it. Is it really too much to ask?

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land.For Graeber, Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, merchants and traders, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom.

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

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A powerful and grippingly readable intervention into the 2020 US presidential election campaign, by the Newsweek and Guardian columnist, The System argues that the USA has become an oligarchy, run by and for the benefit of a tiny minority of the super-rich, with consequences that impact on the entire world.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, persuasive manner exactly what the West knew and when, and what it chose to do, and what not to do, with that knowledge.

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This tenth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and sees the addition of a new co-author. Retaining its characteristic clarity of expression and breadth of coverage, it provides a lively account and explanation of the variety of political systems around the world.

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his later years in office, his larger-than-life and complex personality has continued to fascinate writers and historians.In this comprehensive biography, Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Weaving together in-depth analysis and brilliant historical research, Jenkins has succeeded in crafting this magnificent one-volume account packed with insights that only a fellow politician can convey. Bringing to life the statesman, writer, speaker and leader, Churchill is packed with insights into one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.

Et politisk jordskælv har ramt den historisk gode relation mellem Danmark og Amerikas Forenede Stater. Dramaet bliver talt ned i offentligheden, imens bekymringen vokser bag lukkede døre i Udenrigsministeriet, Forsvarsministeriet og Statsministeriet. I august 2019 ramte et større efterskælv, der gav genlyd verden over. Præsident Trump kaldte en udtalelse fra den danske statsminister for "uforskammet", fordi hun betegnede hans plan om at købe Grønland som "absurd". I samme forbindelse aflyste han sit officielle besøg i Danmark. Det vil sikkert overraske mange, at tendensen begyndte allerede under præsident Obama. Han mente, at forholdet til Kina var vigtigere for Amerika end relationen til Europa. Med Storbritannien ude af EU er Danmark kastet ud i den største identitetskrise siden 1945. Kongeriget er tvunget til at genoverveje kursen på det kompas, vi har navigeret efter de sidste 70 år. Sprækker tager læserne med på en rejse mod denne nye virkelighed og forholder sig både til de historiske perspektiver og den aktuelle situation. Bogen bygger på tidligere USA-korrespondent for DR og forhenværende diplomat i Washington Torsten Jansens samtaler med topdiplomater og politikere som eksempelvis Poul Schlüter, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Per Stig Møller, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Connie Hedegaard, Mogens Lykketoft, Lene Espersen, Martin Lidegaard og Jeppe Kofod.

Europas nyere intellektuelle historie fortalt af en af Europas førende intellektuelle.Jan-Werner Müller blander både intellektuel, politisk og kulturel historie og kaster lys over de ideer, der formede perioden kendetegnet af ideologiske ekstremer før 1945. En periode som vi i lyset af nutidens samfundsudvikling i den grad kan lære af. Hvilke personer, kulturelle strømninger, ideologiske nybrud og generelle samfundstanker prægede Europa op til, under og efter de to store krige, som rystede Europa, og som vi indtil for nylig aldrig troede, vi skulle frygte igen? ANMELDELSER"Jan Werner Müller tegner et fabelagtigt panorama over de intellektuelle og magtgriske kræfter, der formede den styreform, der i dag hævder sig som den mest retfærdige." ♥♥♥♥♥♥ – Politiken "Den hidtil bedste bog om moderne europæisk politisk idehistorie er udkommet på dansk. " – Dagbladet Information "En interessant og oplysende gennemgang af demokratiets udfordringer og kriser i det 20. århundrede" – Per Stig Møller, Flensborg Avis "En beundringsværdig, grundig og vidtfavnende bog" - Jürgen Habermas "Et imponerende overblik over det 20. århundredes europæiske politiske tænkning" - Financial Times "Der er ikke et eneste kapitel af det 20. århundredes europæiske politiske tænkning, der ikke er oplysende analyseret i denne overlegent skrevne, klart argumenterede og usigeligt engagerende bog." - International Affairs OM FORFATTERENTysk idehistoriker og professor i politisk teori på Princeton University. Han er en af Europas førende intellektuelle og forfatter til en lang række politiske og idéhistoriske bøger, senest Hvad er populisme? (2016).

She tells of her numerous run-ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa, and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages.

Classic, Renaissance-era guide to acquiring and maintaining political power. Today, nearly 500 years after it was written, this calculating prescription for autocratic rule continues to be much read and studied.