Meest populaire boeken in Nederland●Internationale politiek

'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... electrifying.' The Times I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. A true-life thriller by one of Putin's Most Wanted. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight ...

Releasedatum: 2015-02-05 € 9,49

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it. Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows h...

Releasedatum: 2011-08-11 € 9,49

The Quest continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No.1 International Bestseller The Prize , revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs - and the power and riches that come with it. A master story teller as well as our most expert analyst, Yergin proves that energy is truly the engine of global political and economic change. From the jammed streets of Beijing, the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the conflicts in the Middle East, to Capitol Hill...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-20 € 10,99

Omdat we dagelijks te maken hebben met de gevolgen van politieke besluiten is het belangrijk om van de politieke ontwikkelingen op de hoogte te zijn. Hoe is ons politieke bestel ontstaan? Wat doen Kamerleden precies? Hoe komen besluiten tot stand? In dit boek komen alle onderdelen van de staatsinrichting aan bod, zoals de regering en het parlement. Ook lees je over de politieke partijen, de grondwet, verkiezingen, de gemeentepolitiek en de relatie met de Europese Unie. Bovendien krijg je uitgele...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-10 € 12,99

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship-and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen. The ascension of Vladimir Putin-a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB-to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years-as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him-Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast res...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-27 € 10,99

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger , Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom, stabil...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-26 € 9,49

*A Telegraph Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russ...

Releasedatum: 2022-11-10 € 27,99

The Sunday Times number one bestseller Chosen as a Waterstones Politics Paperback of the Year, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of demographic and politica...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-04 € 10,99

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun. America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.America values strategic decisiveness; China values patience.America ...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-31 € 10,99

Waarom is Poetin geobsedeerd door de Krim? Welke rol speelden watervallen in de ontwikkeling van het Afrikaanse continent? Waarom is China een marinevloot aan het opbouwen? Wat voor conflict broeit er tussen Egypte en Ethiopië? Of het nu gaat om machtige bergketens of begeerlijke zeehavens, de geografische kenmerken van een land beïnvloeden het handelen van zijn leiders. Om de wereldpolitiek te kunnen volgen moet je mensen, ideeën en bewegingen begrijpen, maar zonder kennis van de geografie k...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-28 € 9,99

Niemand schrijft zo intelligent over Europa als Caroline de Gruyter. De NRC Handelsblad -correspondent, onderscheiden met onder meer de Anne Vondelingsprijs voor de journalist die het helderst over politieke onderwerpen schrijft, weet de problemen waarmee de Europese Unie kampt te beschrijven en te duiden. In haar columns gebundeld in dit boek, komen de grote thema’s scherp en ongeborneerd voorbij: de bankencrisis, globaliseren en de teokomst van de democratie, migratie, Grexit en Brexit. Het ...

Releasedatum: 2016-11-16 € 7,99

Steeds meer drukt China zijn stempel op de wereld. Machthebber Xi Jinping heeft zich ten doel gesteld China wereldleider te maken en is hard op weg die ambitie te verwezenlijken. Voor de Chinezen is dat niets nieuws: hun heerser zwaait sinds een paar duizend jaar de scepter over ‘alles onder de hemel’ en China vormt het centrum van de wereld. Het wereldleiderschap is als een natuurwet: de oudste beschaving, de meeste inwoners en weldra de grootste economie. Het Westen heeft lang gedacht dat ...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-11 € 9,99

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government.LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect's connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads; money and sex.WASHINGTON, January 2017. Steele's explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, supporting, and assisting' Trump for years and that they have compromising in...

Releasedatum: 2017-11-16 € 9,99

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards "(Lev Lurie). All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolve...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-06 € 10,99

A gripping and shocking insight into Russia's most influential oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires. To understand the state of Russia today, one must understand the oligarchs who have shaped it. Once Upon a Time in Russia is the true and untold story of the larger-than-life oligarchs who reaped the riches of privatisation after the fall of the Soviet regime: "Godfather of the Kremlin" Boris Berezovsky, ...

Releasedatum: 2015-06-04 € 8,49

Al bijna twee decennia beweert China dat zijn groeiende economie de groei, export en tewerkstelling in Europa bevorderen. De realiteit is echter niet zo zwart-wit: onevenwichtige handel met China heeft Europa de afgelopen tien jaar meer dan 1.4 biljoen euro gekost en haar politieke invloed ondermijnd. China's grootste infrastructuurproject, de Nieuwe Zijderoute, zal de situatie alleen maar erger maken. Holslag stelt dat Europa minder afhankelijk moet worden van China en moet werken aan een sterk...

Releasedatum: 2019-11-07 € 9,99

'Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The Times Meet the world's most dangerous man. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very heart of our daily lives. In ...

Releasedatum: 2019-02-21 € 9,49

The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced mobile phones are now all being made outside Europe and the United States. Countries that previously lacked polotical confidence and national pride are finding them. Is this an opportunity, or a threat? Fareed Zakaria's acclaimed bestseller, now expanded with a new afterword and throroughly updated throu...

Releasedatum: 2009-06-04 € 9,49

In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever. During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a secret diary. He recorded his private hopes and fears, and gave a blow-by-blow account as the negotiations oscillated betwe...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-22 € 15,99

Opmerkingen

1. Een gedetailleerd verslag van de brexit onderhandelingen - Het verslag beschrijft het samenspel tussen het onderhandelingsteam, de Europese Raad en het Europees Parlement. Michel Barnier geeft een persoonlijk verslag van het moeizame traject van de brexit onderhandelingen. Daarbij verwijst hij regelmatig naar zijn team en geeft hij zichzelf niet alle credits van de succesvolle afronding van het terugtrekkingsverdrag en het handelsakkoord van het VK.
2022-07-27

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS ’ CHOICE • A gripping, behind-the-scenes portrait of the rise of Saudi Arabia’s secretive and mercurial new ruler “Revelatory . . . a vivid portrait of how MBS has altered the kingdom during his half-decade of rule.”— The Washington Post   Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-10 € 11,99

Opmerkingen

1. Interesting but missing depth and breadth - Slightly better than the recent “Blood and Oil” book by fellow journalists, but Ben Hubbard’s book also has limited value as it merely scratches the surface of the Saudi regime without mentioning the revolutionary shift in government King Salman has heralded. Better to read “Vision or Mirage” by David Rundell, which does provide the breadth and depth required to understand the what/why/how/and where behind the Crown Prince.
2020-12-19

A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump. In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the ...

Releasedatum: 2018-06-26 € 2,99

In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to...

Releasedatum: 2017-10-05 € 8,99

Wie Libanon begrijpt, weet hoe het Midden-Oosten in elkaar zit. Alle belangrijke partijen die in de regio met elkaar in conflict zijn, wonen in dit kleine Mediterrane land. Een op de drie inwoners is vluchteling. Het land staat onder hoogspanning. In een serie meeslepende reportages schetst Martijn van der Kooij een modern, sensueel en vooral verwarrend land. Hij gaat op de thee bij Hezbollah, duikt in het nachtleven van mondain en gay Beiroet, beleeft een spannend avontuur in 'tricky' Tripoli e...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-17 € 9,49

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs —and one of our pre-eminent historians—comes “a meticulously researched, authoritative biography” ( The New York Times ), the companion volume to the prize-winning Stalin , and essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.  This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power—from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.   Based on ten years of r...

Releasedatum: 2007-10-16 € 11,99

In 'Kaaskop tussen de kalasjnikovs' vertelt William Immink aan de hand van bijzondere levensverhalen en nieuwsgebeurtenissen over zijn eigen ervaringen met het grootste land ter wereld: Rusland. In ‘Kaaskop tussen de kalasjnikovs’ gaat Rusland-correspondent William Immink op zoek naar bijzondere levensverhalen en onderbelichte nieuwsgebeurtenissen in Rusland. Verhalen over grote thema’s als religie, politiek, cultuur en economie gezien vanuit de gewone Rus. Ook vertelt William over zijn ei...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-15 € 9,99

Fully updated to include the migrant crisis, the UK's decision to leave the Union, and the state of the Euro currency, this accessible Very Short Introduction shows how and why the EU has developed, how its institutions works, and what it does - from the single market to the Euro, and from agriculture to peace-keeping and the environment.

Releasedatum: 2018-01-12 € 11,99

Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration into the global economy through its vast energy reserves. Yet the close attention paid to Iran in recent decades stems from the impact of the 1979 revolution, which unleashed ideological shock waves throughout the Middle East that reverberate to thi...

Releasedatum: 2016-12-01 € 14,99

' Breaking Bad meets City of God ' Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah HUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil’s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, while everyone around him drew guns and partied. DRUG LORD. It’s a story of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, politicians and d...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-17 € 9,49

A landmark manifesto issuing a bold call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.   The reigning consensus in elite and academic circles is that the United States must seek to resolve the Palestinians' conflict with Israel by implementing the so-called two-state solution. Establishing a Palestinian state, so the thinking goes, would be a panacea for all the region’s ills. In a time of partisan gridlock, the two-state solution stands out for its ability to attract s...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-04 € 11,99

A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots stretching back well beyond that. Brexit has a history. O'Rourke, one of the leading economic historians of his generation, explains not only how British attitudes to Europe have evolved, but also ho...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-31 € 9,49

Hoe kunnen we de populistische golf die onze democratieën bedreigt een halt toeroepen? Hoe kunnen we het uiteenvallen van de Europese Unie voorkomen? Sinds de eurocrisis is Europa in de greep van bezuinigingen. Maar wie heeft dat beleid bepaald? Het is dringend nodig om de eurozone te democratiseren. In Naar een democratischer Europa doen Thomas Piketty en zijn collega's een voorstel voor een nieuw verdrag waarin burgers vertegenwoordigd worden en betrokken zijn, zodat Europa weer doet wat het ...

Releasedatum: 2017-08-31 € 7,99

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NPR Great Read of 2015 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet,...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-08 € 10,99

" Wake Up America is a HUGE book. It will help to Make America Great Again." --Donald J. Trump The Instant New York Times Bestseller, by President-elect Donald Trump's National Security Adviser. A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave dan...

Releasedatum: 2016-07-12 Genre:Politiek en nieuws € 10,99

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them. Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worl...

Releasedatum: 2022-01-06 € 12,99

The Wall Street Journal : "Engrossing...[Dychtwald]writes with an infectious energy." The Washington Post: "Enlightening...we learn that Chinese millennials, unlike their jaded American counterparts, are still dreamers and strivers, and have faith that they can achieve their dreams." Christian Science Monitor: "Fascinating... a remarkably revealing portrait of China's youngest generations." Randall Stross, author of Bulls in the China Shop and Other Sino-American Business Encounters: " A rarity ...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-13 € 12,99

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper. Will China be successful in implementing a new wave of transformational reforms that could last decades and make it the ...

Releasedatum: 2016-03-11 € 15,99

'One of the most provocative and startling books ever written by a British commander ... an update of the two great thinkers on war and peace, Clausewitz and Sun Tsu, for our time ... it is for anyone interested in the well-being of our world' Robert Fox, Evening Standard Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks utility. From Iraq to the Balkan...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-29 € 10,99

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border ...

Releasedatum: 2022-09-06 € 12,99

The story of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and 200,000 Shia militias fighting to establish an arc of influence across the Middle East.

Releasedatum: 2018-11-09 € 43,99

Heute existieren zwei große Ansichten zu Mitteleuropa. Für die einen ist es die größte europäische Erfolgsgeschichte der letzten Jahrzehnte, weil eine friedliche, vollständige Transformation zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft und die Eingliederung in die westeuropäischen Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitsstrukturen gelungen sind. Für die anderen ist Mitteleuropa zu einer fragmentierten und teilweise marginalisierten Region geworden, aus der keine Vorschläge für Europas Zukunft kommen, die sic...

Releasedatum: 2018-03-05 € 9,99

In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza. Robert Serry shares his reflections on walking the tight rope of diplomacy between Israel and Palestine and his analysis of what has gone wrong and why a “one-state reality” may be around the corner. Offering fresh thinking on how to preserve prospects for a two-state solution, this book examines the UN...

Releasedatum: 2016-12-07 € 87,99

A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece’s dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe’s decades-old project of forging a clo...

Releasedatum: 2015-06-02 € 5,49

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Written by the team of former Special Operations warriors who run SOFREP.com, here is the definitive account of what happened before, during, and after the deadly Benghazi attack that claimed the lives of four Americans. On September 12th, 2012, Brandon Webb learned Glen Doherty, one of his closest friends and his former Navy SEAL teammate, was killed alongside Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and two other Americans when the U.S. State Department and CIA headquar...

Releasedatum: 2014-05-06 € 5,99

No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the elections of November 2010 have profoundly altered the internal mood of the society, and have surpri...

Releasedatum: 2013-05-15 € 14,99

An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight’s Children. In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange...

Releasedatum: 2011-08-31 € 9,49

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles...

Releasedatum: 2001-04-17 € 9,49

Comprehensive and unique information with professional analysis of Nigeria politics and history, economic, social, military, and national security systems and institutions, written by the experts at the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This Country Study and Country Profile is an exceptional review of Nigeria and its history. Books in the Country Studies series describe and analyze "political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examin[e] th...

Releasedatum: 2011-02-05 € 7,99

Comprehensive and unique information with professional analysis of Afghanistan, politics and history, economic, social, military, and national security systems and institutions, written by the experts at the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This Country Study and Country Profile is an exceptional review of Afghanistan and its history. Books in the Country Studies series describe and analyze "political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and exa...

Releasedatum: 2011-02-01 € 7,99

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (...

Releasedatum: 2022-02-01 € 12,99

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.  The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectual property, intellig...

Releasedatum: 2022-03-22 € 17,99