Everything is decided today not by presidents, not by autocrats, not by dictators, but by money. People don’t think they have the flu, but they do care about their health. Because today, every person is God. Everyone thinks they are God because they have money. No one recognizes any authority. Because the elite has disappeared. Nationalism is the first egalitarian idea, to people dream of being oligarchs and stop respecting real nobility. How to get back the real elite?
Nationalists and socialists throughout the 20th century lived like a cat with a dog. Accusing each other of incompetence and sabotage and how to better equip society. Today, a third person appeared on the scene, and the situation has changed. Democracy dominates the world. And some nationalists and socialists have joined the decorative democracy in the Third World, and they feel good under the new autocracies. Selfishness, populism, and ignorance lead to a battle with the shadow.
Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly since 1967, and spending all of 2005 and 2006 there, Guy Sorman saw it all, and in this jaw-dropping book, he documents the horrifying stories of China through the 21st century. He shows how the Party's primary concern is not improving the...
Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is aimed at understanding how violent conflicts can be brought to a close through intervention, mediation and political negotiation. The simple premise underlying the book is that wars between states and wars within states are generally fought by rational people for particular political goals or perceived interests. War is better understood as a...
