The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions. Tech companies gather...

"This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.”—Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of...

A collection of essays from the leading scholars in the field dealing with various dimensions of legal negotiations. The contributions concern the logical structure of legal negotiations, as well as the possible philosophical assumptions behind the process of negotiating. The collection covers also the problem of the economic mechanisms and the psychological underpinnings of negotiationg in...

The idea of democracy which emerged in the Athenian polis constitutes a major determinant of social and political life at the and of the 20th and the begining of the 21st century. Both indirect and direct democracy find followers in defferent civilisational areas. It should be emphasised that in fact there are many different democracies and, depending on the actual conditions, different...

The first and second volumes of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China have received an enthusiastic response from China and other parts of the world. Since the 19th CPC National Congress, Xi Jinping has put forward many original ideas drawn from his experiences in state governance in the new era, charting the course in line with the times and further enriching the theoretical base of the...

Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines,...

Dr. Agnieszka Bieńczyk - Missala is a lecturer at the Institutei of International Relations of the Warsaw University and an analist at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. She is engaged in problems of human rights and democracy, primarily in the context of security and foreign policy, and has written articles that have appeared in: Rocznik Strategiczny, Sprawy Międzynarodowe,...

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights education. Different intellectual, legal, political and philosophical traditions and views are brought together to explore some of the issues challenging standard justification. Widely accessible also to non experts, contributors aim at opening new perspective on the state of the art of...

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a “reward” mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of “punishment” in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in...

Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded on three vital principles: liberty, equality, and also uncertainty. The latter, he argues, is crucial for ensuring...

Poland has been building its market economy for slightly more than a quarter of a century and has been a member of the European Union for thirteen years. Currently, Poland can feel the results of the international crisis, but with some delay compared to the other European countries. Despite its stable economic development and relatively low unemployment, a deterioration in the quality of...

Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few decades. But this pair of opposites was central to the history of the twentieth century. This book covers topics such as socialism, capitalism, democracy, and change of system.

Publikacja w języku angielskim stanowi wybór artykułów z dwóch książek poświęconych trudnym problemom w stosunkach polsko-niemieckich po II wojnie światowej: Problem reparacji, odszkodowań i świadczeń w stosunkach polsko-niemieckich 1944–2004 oraz Transfer - obywatelstwo - majątek....

Należy przede wszystkim pozytywnie ocenić wybór i sposób ujęcia problematyki będącej przedmiotem książki, gdyż jest to z jednej strony istotny przyczynek do badań nad rolą retoryki w marketingu politycznym, z drugiej zaś zarówno diagnoza jak i wnioski sformułowane przez Autora są niezwykle cenne z punktu widzenia praktyki politycznej i powinny stać się przedmiotem refleksji nad przebiegiem...

This monograph is the result of the research programme “Crises of the European integration process and the methods of overcoming them” financed by National Science Centre. This project was completed in September 2015 and realised between 2013 and 2015. The research team consisted of 28 members mainly from the Institute of European Studies at the University of Warsaw but also from the...

Publikacja anglojęzyczna – księga jubileuszowa z okazji 70. urodzin prof. dr. hab. Jana. J. Milewskiego. Professor Jan J. Milewski is and economic historian and one of the Nestors of African studies in Poland. Professor Milewski`s seventieth birthday falls in this year of 2007. The articles we are offering to readers in honour of this occasion have been provided by his friends, students,...

Publikacja anglojęzyczna zawiera zbiór artykułów przygotowanych przez zespół ekspertów i naukowców pochodzących z państwa kandydujących do Unii Europejskiej. Ukazuje proces przygotowań oraz samych negocjacji prowadzonych do 2001 roku. Publikacja powstała we współpracy z Uniwersytetem Warszawskim, Kancelarią Prezydenta RP oraz Agencją Własności Rolnej Skarbu Państwa.

This book is a collaborative effort of scholars from Australian universities and prominent international researchers. It comes at a time when Central and Eastern European countries are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It examines the political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in the post-communist era. In particular, it...

Compiled by the State Council Information Office of China, the CCCPC Party Literature Research Office and China International Publishing Group, Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is published by Foreign Languages Press in Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese, distributed worldwide. This book is a compilation of Xi Jinping's major works from...

There is constant debate around the questions of what constitutes the 'just' distribution of goods and how we can assess existing distribution patterns. Some commentators mistakenly believe that there can be one simple, all-encompassing governing principle that automatically yields the 'fairest' results. In this book Grzegorz Lissowski argues that three types of principles need to be...