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Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present
From Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Tiananmen Square to the Orange Revolution, non-violent action against the forces of oppression has played a key role in world history. This book tells the compelling story of each of the major campaigns of civil resistance that have shaped our world over the last century.
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Free Speech and the Defense of an Open Society
The Hungarian chocolate is a little bittersweet for me, because the great privilege of my life was to be allowed to chronicle the emancipation and then liberation of Central and Eastern Europe, the transition from a post-totalitarian dictatorship to what we hoped would be a durable liberal democracy, from a closed society to an open society. Now we are witnessing something of a-I hope temporary-transition in the opposite direction from what we hoped would be a stable, liberal democracy to something which might most kindly be called an illiberal democracy, and perhaps more accurately in the language of political science, electoral authoritarianism, from an open society to a more closed society. The defense of an open society and free speech is therefore more important than ever.
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Is Britain European?
To ask `Is Britain European?' is to engage in a particularly difficult area of the always elusive business of Identity Studies. The very nature and future viability of Britain have recently been subject to extensive questioning. Meanwhile, one can distinguish at least six politically relevant senses of the term `European'. Britain was never as exceptional as was suggested by the traditional story of British exceptionalism told by the `Island Story' school of historians. Moreover, it has become much less insular over the past sixty years. The question is whether the process has been Europeanization, Americanization or simply globalization. There is considerable evidence that the country's ties to what Churchill called `the English-speaking peoples' are still as strong as those to continental Europe. In fact, both sets of ties have become stronger. But these identities are not exclusive. Britain has always been a place of multiple over-lapping identities: English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish, as well as British, European and transoceanic. That Britain's European identity is bound to remain only a partial identity does not mean it has to be a shallow one. If Britain is to be a full and effective participant in Europe it has to deepen its European identity, to develop something of the normative, idealistic sense of being European which is second nature to most continental Europeans engaged in these debates.
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Free speech : ten principles for a connected world
\"Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree. He draws on a thirteen-language global online project freespeechdebate.com conducted out of Oxford University and devoted to doing just that. With vivid examples, from his personal experience of China's Orwellian censorship apparatus to the controversy around Charlie Hebdo to a very English court case involving food writer Nigella Lawson, he proposes a framework for \"civilized\" conflict in a world where we are all becoming neighbors.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Two spirits of liberty: the world could use more of Christopher Hitchens's courage and Isaiah Berlin's tolerance
Shortly after Isaiah Berlin died, Christopher Hitchens launched an attack on him in the London Review of Books. Hitchens and Berlin personified two spirits of liberty. The distinction be tween these two spirits is not a philosophical one, like that between two conc epts. Rather, it is a matter of temperament, character, habits of the heart. Put most simply, Hitchens exemplified courage; Berlin, tolerance
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Europa se desintegra?
Hace una década y media, sin duda podía verse el horizonte de Europa con más optimismo que hoy. El «Brexit» fue un balde de agua fría para quienes buscan un continente más integrado y cooperativo. Pero ya antes emergieron problemas en la zona euro, en parte debido a un diseño inadecuado. Lo que se veía originalmente como una posibilidad de convergencia entre el centro y la periferia europeos no se concretó, el antieuropeísmo creció en el propio centro y la ola populista se desarrolló en varios países.
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