#Reading. La Rabbia: connessioni tra estrema destra e fondamentalismo islamista
Julia Ebner è una ricercatrice austriaca che vive a Londra dove si occupa di terrorismo ed estremismo. In questo libro
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#Readings
#Reading: On Grand Strategy
The way the author effortlessly balances literature, history and theory makes “On Grand Strategy” a great primer on strategic thinking.
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#Reading Civilizing the Enemy
Jackson asks vital questions and encourage us to question what we came to take as granted over the years: he claims that the notion of Western Civilization is a recent development and the rhetoric was used to justify the rehabilitation and the remilitarization of West Germany after 1945.
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#Reading The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The beauty of social sciences is in the diversity of approaches on which they’re built. Although not an explicit incursion
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#Reading Orientalism
‘Orientalism’ is a strong tradition with a vast literature that has had a great impact on the mentality of countless people. These paradigms determine the relations between former colonizers and the descendants of the formerly oppressed nations. .
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#Reading Zionism: A Brief History
Zionism: A Brief History is a vivid illustration of a movement which is much older than the goal it achieved in 1949.
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#Reading Easternisation
The West is in decline, Asia on the rise. So much so good: this common knowledge has been repeated again
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#Reading War in 140 Characters
People looking for an entry point in the world of cyberthreats and open-source intelligence will find in War in 140 Characters a sober guide with a sense of the big questions that will affect peace and war in the next decades.
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#Reading: Why Nations Fail
Acemoglu and Robinson up dry econometrics and empirical data with numerous historical and political examples, composing an entertaining read and defending an interesting thesis.
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#Reading The Invention of Russia
Through this tale of television pundit and audacious editors Ostrovsky has written one of the best introductions to the birth of the Russian Federation.
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