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6/21 Who is Călin Georgescu, what are his visions and why is he a danger for Romania, Ukraine and EU stability? This independent candidate is an individual with Putinist visions assumed through public statements ("Romania needs Russia's wisdom"), close to Aleksandr Dughin, who visited Romania at his invitation several years ago. His political back... See more

Radu Hossu

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and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

En même temps, l’art politique, celui qui se donne pour mission non seulement de réaliser un idéal humain de liberté, d’égalité, de fraternité, mais aussi d’ouvrir la Voie qui sauverait l’humanité du désastre, doit composer avec le réel pour le modifier. Il doit se garder du rêve utopique d’harmonie sur terre, mais aussi du réalisme qui ignore que

Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)

decline into a mere rationalization of political interests.

Heinrich A. Rommen • The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy (NONE)

After being elected to a second term in 2010, Orbán slowly replaced civil servants with loyalists; used economic pressure and regulation to destroy the free press; robbed universities of their independence, and shut one of them down; politicized the court system; and repeatedly changed the constitution to give himself electoral advantages. During t... See more

Anne Applebaum • The Hungarian Model

The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump

Geraldo L. Cadava

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Cover of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump

On further reflection, however, it seemed to me that it was perhaps a conceit to think that modern societies had progressed so far beyond Melanesia, since Big Men—that is, politicians who distribute resources to their relatives and supporters—are ubiquitous in the contemporary world, including the U.S. Congress.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

Moro’s decision to accept the job of justice minister in the new Bolsonaro government badly damaged his credibility. But it was perhaps not a surprising one. Certainly not to Janot, the chief federal prosecutor and the man who had set up the Curitiba task force in the first place. In his memoir, Janot said that he had been sceptical of the Curitiba

Richard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro

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