In this third edition of Globalization in World History, Peter Stearns explores the roots of contemporary globalization, examining shifts in the global flow of people, goods, and ideas as early as 1000 CE. Exploring how four moments in history have accelerated the process of globalization, Stearns's narrative details how factors such as economics, migration, disease transmission, culture, the environment, and politics have influenced the nature of globalization as we understand it today. This...

De verbijsterende ervaringen van een succesvol innovatief ondernemer die de afgelopen 15 jaar ook politiek maatschappelijk actief was.

Maurits Falkenreck (6 februari 1974) stelt begin 2000 vast dat het verval van de verzorgingsstaat steeds meer vorm krijgt om vervolgens innovaties te lanceren als tegenwicht voor het verval van de verzorgingsstaat. In dit proces ontdekt hij de falende innovatiecultuur en de werking van Het Politiek Ecosysteem op essentiële politiek maatschappelijke vraagstukk...

Politicians employ a wide range of strategies to achieve their goals - and language is one of them. What impact does their language have on us, on their opponents, on the public opinion?

If language matters, then the interesting question naturally arises how politicians use language to their advantage? How do they use it to convince us of the truth of their views? These questions take us into the world of political framing, which has attracted a lot of attention in recent times and forms the...

The third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective. Completely revised and updated throughout, the third edition offers up-to-date examples engaging with the latest developments in gl...

Een waarschuwing (de Nederlandse vertaling van A Warning) laat de lezer aanschuiven aan de vergadertafel van Trump. Geschreven door een anoniem en prominent staflid van het Witte Huis.

Een waarschuwing biedt een kijkje achter de schermen van Trumps regering en zorgde al voor verschijning voor veel opschudding in de Verenigde Staten. De anonieme klokkenluider publiceerde eerder in The New York Times het beruchte artikel ‘I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration’ dat de ...

The People’s Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China’s role in the world while simultaneously showcasing the leadership’s policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication strategy have been networked spectacles: elaborate mass event, designed to reconfigure organisations, ideas, and the relations between people.

In "Staging China", Florian Schneider analyses large-scale projec...

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline's foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from elections and voting to security and global governance. Systematically revised and updated throughout, it also uses a range...