The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their...
The work was prepared in 2009-2010 during the first term of President Barack Obama. The book describes the political mines that laid the system under the American system.In connection with harsh statements to the us intelligence services, the book...
Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in...
**“The ultimate takedown.” –** ***New York Times Book Review***
**Award-winning *New York Times* reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive...
After the gradual slowing down of the "third wave of democratization," electoral authoritarianism is rapidly emerging as a dominant form of contemporary autocracy. Political parties play a key role within the political and institutional structures...
Babel Inc. is an essential primer on the politics of globalisation and multiculturalism. Bolton demonstrates that conventional distinctions between the political left and right have been transcended by transnational corporations who regard the...
The words and pages and chapters of this book are not written to shock the reader. But they do. Here, for the first time inmany decades, is a view of the forces that act on our lives as Americans. Here is a case, complete with impeccable...