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World At Risk
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adminUlrich Beck, now a Professor Emeritus at London School of Economics, is unlike other academics. His forays into sociology seek to make sociology real or as deeply connected as he can to lay people. In “Risk Society,” Ulrich Beck argued that the world has reached a stage where the “past…
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The Obamians
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adminThe amazing presidential victory of President Barack H Obama in 2008 is now coming to a close. But how did Obama gain the ballast to win the presidency in the first place? James Mann, a superb investigative journalist, argued that the seeds of Obama’s victory lay in the American aversion…
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The Origins of Alliances
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adminHow do states form their alliances, and when do they abandon them, if at all? Stephen M Walt began this book by asking how do states “make friends”? Indeed, when faced with a turbulent world, marked by diffused threats after the end of the Cold War, how do they…
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How The Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict
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adminHow the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict It has been reported by The New Yorker that President Elect Trump, like President George Bush, has not paid much attention to classified briefings. One can only hope that come January 20, 2017, when President Trump takes over the White…
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Man, the State and the War
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adminMan, the State and the War The late Kenneth N Waltz was a mathematician, who subsequently took to studying political science, eventually becoming a professor at University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. “Man, the State and the War” was written in the 1950s. It didn’t distinguish the differences be…
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The End of the Chinese Dream : Why Chinese People Fear The Future
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adminAs a well travelled author, Gerard Lemos, has has the privilege of understanding the failures of many countries across various continents. In suggesting that a substantial majority of the 1.4 billion strong Chinese population, will probably not be able to enjoy the benefits of secure employment, welfare benefits, pensions and…
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
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adminChris Miller is by far one of the most talented political scientists to have emerged from the United States (US) in the last ten years. The fact that he has chosen to teach in The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, which is barely a stone’s throw away…
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
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adminFedrick_deBoer is a talented writer with an eye for detail on all things that are wrong about the United States (US) albeit some things that have been overlooked by the usual scholars who want to cast their sight on the US. Although Frederick _deBoer is a self proclaimed Marxist, he…
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The World In 2050: How to Think about the Future
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adminFuture studies are often frowned upon. Somehow social sciences do not like to peer into the future. With the exception of thinkers such as Ziauddin Sardar, Heidi Toffler, her husband Alvin Toffler, invariably, John Naisbitts, author of the “Megatrends,” almost no one has systematically tried to appropriate the paradigm of…
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Xi: A Study in Power
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adminThose who come charging at this book “Xi: A Study in Power,” by Kerry Brown, a Sinologist at King’s College would be forewarned that the book has no salacious details. Thus one should forget any faction infightings and supports that President Xi Jin Ping (hereon Xi)—–may or may not rely…