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The robber barons of the tech revolution - Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk and others - have led the way to wealth inequality nearly as extreme as at the turn of the nineteenth century, with damaging implications for democracy. How has this happened and what can we do about it?

Puppenspieler in der Ukraine und TaiwanWer auf die Landkarte blickt, sieht, dass die USA Russland und China einkreisen. Sie spielen mit dem Feuer und gefährden die europäische Sicherheit durch die beabsichtige Aufstellung von landgestützten Atomraketen und Anti-Raketenbasen in Polen und Rumänien. Der Tribut, den die USA von ihren europäischen Vasallen verlangen, ist die Erhöhung der Militärausgaben auf zwei Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes, der Ersatz russischer Erdgas-Lieferungen durch umweltschädliches US-Fracking-Gas und die vorbehaltlose Unterstützung der US-Handelskriege mit China, Russland und dem Iran. Europa muss sich von der amerikanischen Vorherrschaft befreien. Die USA (700 Milliarden Dollar Militärausgaben) brauchen die europäischen Staaten (rund 300 Milliarden Dollar Rüstungsausgaben) für ihre Sicherheit nicht. Sie brauchen sie nur als Vasallen, um ihre Weltherrschaft auszuüben. Europa ist wirtschaftlich und militärisch in der Lage, sein Schicksal selbst zu bestimmen. Es muss sich vom Schlepptau der USA lösen. Es gelten die Worte Helmut Schmidts: Europa muss Russland als Partner sehen, nicht als Gegner Für den Frieden in der Welt geht von Russland heute viel weniger Gefahr aus, als etwa von Amerika.

'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasionOn 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their country. This anthology brings together writing from inside Ukraine, by Ukrainians, available in English for the first time. Here they document everyday life, ponder the role of culture amid conflict, denounce Russian imperialism and revisit their relations with the world, especially Europe and its ideals, as they try to comprehend the horrors of war.From tearing-downs of Russia's use of culture as justification of the war to moving descriptions of nights spent sheltering in corridors, poignant snatched moments with a husband on his single night away from the army, to descriptions of the eerie weather in the months leading up to the invasion, as if nature was trying to warn Ukraine, these essays reveal the texture, rawness and reality of life in Ukraine under war as never before.

How a war in Ukraine precipitated an international economic conflict affecting us all.

A powerful graphic novel exploring the struggle for survival of displacedpeople.

How did the Ukrainian oligarchy survive the institutional disruption of the Euromaidan revolt of 2013/2014? How did it manage to continue its extractive political and economic practices, amid deep changes in Ukraine¿s society and polity? To answer these questions, this book analyzes the evolution of the Ukrainian super-rich in 2006-2017, tracing the process of conversion of wealth into political influence through vote-buying in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) and of the transformation of political influence back into wealth via elite rent-extraction schemes within the Ukrainian gas sector. A key argument is that continuity in informal practices between the Yanukovych and Poroshenko presidencies, and of the networks that conduct them, meant a prolongation of the dominant political economy regime. The study conceptualizes the processes of the recreation of Ukrainian oligarchy as a ¿currency flow,¿ or circuit, of wealth and power. It adds to the literature on the dynamics of informally dominated post-communist political economy regimes a detailed, integrated, and internally comparative case study of Ukraine."This book is ambitious in its scope ... a thoroughgoing empirical study of one of the defining features of politics in Ukraine.¿¿Dr Sarah Whitmore, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University"A successful attempt to combine usage of theories of oligarchy and national prosperity."¿Dr Rasmus Nilsson, Lecturer in Russian Politics, SSEES, University College London

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews.In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on Krakowiec as refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland.At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

A powerful record of the first four months of the Russian-Ukrainian war, this book is at once the testimony of one man entering a new reality as he writes and the story of a society unified in its fight for the right to exist.

A momentous human and sporting story of our times - a nation at war and the fight of a football club to play on.

Uncover the history of Ukraine, from the ancient past until the presentday.

På operationsbordet lå en lille pige på bare 7 år med et stort hul i brystkassen, kun fordi Nataliya rent fysisk klemte forsigtigt om barnets lille hjertet, holdt hun pigen i live. Helt bogstaveligt stod hun med det lille liv i sin hånd, imens lægen desperat forsøgte at stoppe blødningerne efter den granatsplint, som i første omgang havde revet brystet op på pigen. En dump eksplosion i nærheden fik bygningen til at ryste, kalk og betonstøv dryssede ned fra loftet, lyset blinkede, men Nataliya lænede sig blot skærmende ind over barnet, ikke et eneste sekund stoppede hun med at holde det lille hjerte i gang. I denne dokumentarroman bliver livet og vilkårene for ukrainerne sat sammen til et samlet billede af den krig, Putin og Rusland har påført Ukraine, Europa og hele verden. Igennem 5 fiktive ukrainske borger opleves virkeligheden på nært hold gennem krigens første 3 måneder, sådan som den udspiller sig i al sin gru ved både fronten og i de civile områder. Alle hændelser gennem denne dokumentarroman har virkelig fundet sted i en eller anden form, her 10. juli 2022 regner missiler og granater stadig ned over den ukrainske civilbefolkning. Efterfølgende denne dokumentarroman er 6 afsnit omhandlende de spørgsmål, mange stiller sig selv?

Civil society in Eastern Europe has long been labeled weak based on a lack of participation in formal organizations. However, this fails to recognize the impact of informality where it permeates economic, political, and social spheres. Below the Radar convincingly shows that informal engagement constitutes an essential component of civil society.

Neste quinto volume da Colectânea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária, apresentamos o segundo livro de contos da mul- tifacetada escritora Ucraniana Kateryna Babkina.

The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State.'An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.' ANNE APPLEBAUM'Compelling, important and heartbreaking.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Essential reading.' ELIOT HIGGINS, founder of Bellingcat'Brilliant.' ANDREY KURKOVFor months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was stunned by the epochal scale of the assault that began in February 2022. It was an attempt by one nation to devour another.Invasion is Luke Harding's compelling chronicle of the war that changed everything. For this breathtaking work of reportage he spent months reporting on the ground during the build up to the conflict and afterward; his book tells of the initial days of shock and panic, the grim reality of this ongoing war, and the unheard human stories behind the headlines. Invasion also offers insightful portraits of the the war's two great personalities. One, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is an actor-turned-president who rallied support on a global stage. The other, Vladimir Putin, is a dictator who dwells in a strange and unreachable realm. Harding examines the ideological, religious and personal reasons behind Putin's decision to invade. And he confronts a crucial question: which side will prevail in this terrible war?With the ripple effects of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945 already being felt beyond Ukraine and Russia's borders, it is more vital than ever to understand how the situation on the front line will have profound effects for us all. Written in Luke Harding's starkly transfixing style, Invasion makes for essential reading.'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.'ROBERTO SAVIANO, author of Gomorrah***Author royalties from this edition will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building. It will be of interest to researchers of European studies, as well as to those working on global cooperation and international relations more broadly.