Internationale relationer

"Behovet for at forstå Kinas intentioner har aldrig været større. Om vi vil det eller ej, kommer Kina til at præge det 21. århundrede mere end nogen anden nation" – fra forordet Tiden, hvor kinesiske ledere holdt lav profil, er forbi. Xi Jinping har med stor kraft sat Kina tilbage på verdenskortet og indledt, hvad han selv kalder en ny æra. Men hvad er det for en verden, den kinesiske præsident og partichef ser for sig, og hvad får det af betydning for os i Vesten? I "Kina i verden" tager journalist og Asien-korrespondent Lasse Karner læserne med på en rejse langs Kinas storstilede Silkevejsprojekt, rundt om teknologiske nybrud, ideologiske kampe og stormagtsrivalisering og langt ind i den kinesiske selvforståelse. Bogen giver et unikt indblik i Kinas nationale identitet og globale ambitioner under Xi Jinping.

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve?In this book, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine - and what it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.

Håbets politik fører læseren på en spændende rejse gennem Europas stormfyldte historie og den viser, hvordan en række muterende megakriser i de sidste årtier har skabt dybe rystelser i samfundet, der helt ændrer spillereglerne for europæisk politik og økonomi. I en dybtgående og levende journalistisk analyse på 826 sider undersøger den fhv. direktør for Tænketanken EUROPA, Bjarke Møller, hvordan frygten og vredens psykologi overvindes, og hvordan der kan skabes nyt håb med en offensiv europæisk politik: EU kan i 2020´erne forandres til en grøn supermagt og en demokratisk styret netværksstat med egne skattekilder, der kan sikre velfærdssamfundet i en æra med hård global konkurrence. Bogen rummer opdaterede analyser af coronakrisen, finanskrisen, terrorkrigene, migrationskrisen, nationalismens nye nostalgi og tillidskrisen mellem politikere og borgere. Samtidig er den fyldt med referencer til filosofi, historie, psykologi, populære film, musik og kulturliv, der kaster nyt lys ind over europæernes brydningsfyldte jagt efter en ny identitet i det 21. århundrede.Det siger eksperterne om bogen:"Bjarke Møllers mammutværk er en kraftpræstation. Som modvægt til Danmarks indadskuende debat er det forfriskende med Møllers ukuelige tro på det europæiske samarbejdes potentiale.” Connie Hedegaard, fhv. EU-klimakommissær (K)"Bjarke Møller har skrevet en fantastisk bog. Med passion, direkte til ungdommen. Både en vældig lærd analyse, baseret på facts og meget stor viden og samtidig både letlæst og aktuel. Bogen er et markant vendepunkt i vores alt for snævre og vitaminfattige diskussion om Europa." Steen Gade, initiativtager til foreningen Nyt Europa og fhv. MF for SF"Bjarke Møller har gravet dybere end de fleste og viser sammenhængen i tingene – historisk og kulturelt. Mere end otte hundrede sider er en stor mundfuld, men man bliver inspireret af læsningen og grebet af Bjarkes vision – håbet som drivkraft. Han har leveret et uvurderligt bidrag til den kommende Europadebat”. Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Danmarks fhv. EU-ambassadør"Bjarke Møller har forfattet en velskrevet mursten af en Europabog - meget personlig, modig og hæsblæsende. Den forsvarer håbet og troen på Europa trods splittelse og demokratisk tilbagegang." Marlene Wind, professor, Københavns Universitet."Jeg blev fuldstændig opslugt af bogen. Jeg fik mindelser om Thomas Pikettys metodik ift. den brede og dybdegående brug af filosofi, historie, politik og økonomi for til sidst at fremføre nogle konkrete løsningsforslag på skuldrene heraf. Sjældent man ser en så ambitiøs bog på dansk. Det fortjener debatten om EU." Johannes Sartou, i chefredaktionen for Ræsons historiemagasin, ÆRA

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) er mest kendt for sine teser om det politiske som et ven-fjende-forhold og om suveræn autoritet eller ”decisionisme”, samt for sin kritik af vestlig liberalisme og vestligt demokrati – alt sammen teser, der er blevet til i de kaotiske år under Weimarrepublikken, og som nødvendigvis må forstås på denne baggrund. Mindre opmærksomhed har der været om hans senere arbejder, der klart adskiller sig fra Weimartidens, og som fokuserer på international ret og global geopolitik. En særlig plads blandt disse arbejder indtager Land og hav, skrevet under Anden Verdenskrig som en fortælling til datteren Anima, da Schmitt levede isoleret og marginaliseret i det krigshærgede Berlin. Bogen er blevet kaldt hans ”måske mest betydningsfulde og bestemt smukkeste” og præsenterer sig som en brillant, holistisk fortolkning af menneskehedens historie som historien om de rum, den har eksisteret i. I centrum står den fundamentale modsætning mellem ”elementerne” land og hav. I hurtige rids skitseres århundreders verdenshistorie med ”rummet” som den røde og næsten hemmelighedsfulde tråd, der binder de mest forskelligartede fænomener sammen: Politiske institutioner, krigskunst, videnskabelige gennembrud, tekniske opfindelser, retsopfattelser, kunstarter, mentalitetsformer. Af disse to elementers rum er Jordens nomos eller grundordning opstået og med den klodens to basale civilisationer – landets og havets. Schmitts geopolitiske teorier om en multipolær verdensorden bestående af ”storrum” har i de senere år tiltrukket sig stadig større international opmærksomhed, og i et Efterord gives der et indblik i deres tilblivelse og nutidige relevans, set i et internationalt politisk perspektiv.Nysgerrig efter at vide mere? Så prøv AI (kunstig intelligens). Brug: bing.com - Tryk øverst: Copilot - Spørg om: Fritz Wolder Carl Schmitt Helikon

David Gress leverer en sønderlemmende kritik af den udvikling, EU nu er inde i. Han dokumenterer med sin betydelige viden om hele forløbet, hvordan noget, der skulle være så godt, er ved at køre af sporet, drevet af EU-bureaukratiets ønske om at blande sig i alting og stræbe efter Europas Forenede Stater. Bogens forord er skrevet af Saxo Banks adm. direktør, Lars Seier Christensen, der forklarer, hvordan han fra stærk tilhænger efterhånden er blevet stærkt kritisk over for EU.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous cold wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Valdimir Putin's Russia.New Cold Wars - the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger - tells the riveting story of America at a crossroads. At the turn of the millennium, the United States was confident that a democratic Russia and a newly wealthy China could gradually be pulled into the Western-led order. That proved a fantasy. By the time Washington emerged from the age of terrorism, the three nuclear powers were engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, and technological supremacy - with nations around the world forced to take sides.Interviewing a remarkable array of top officials in the United States, world leaders, and tech companies thrust onto the front lines, Sanger unfolds a riveting narrative spun around the era's critical questions. Will Putin's ill-considered invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing, and will he reach for his nuclear arsenal? Will China strike back at the US chip embargo, or seize Taiwan, the world's semiconductor capital?Taking readers from the battlefields of Ukraine - where trench warfare and cyberwarfare are fought side by side - to the back rooms and boardrooms where diplomats, spies, and tech executives jockey for geopolitical advantage, New Cold Wars is an astonishing first-draft history chronicling America's return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024**From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader - a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of many more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia, resentments and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were incredibly high.Using unpublished and underreported sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance, it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of diplomacy and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change our political landscape.

"The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called 'The End of History.' Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a '1939 moment.' History never ended-it barely paused-and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across the globe. Peace has been shattered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but in reality, this affects every corner of our world-from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: on the Arctic floor, in the oceans and across the skies, and in cyberspace. Sciutto argues that we are witnessing the return of great power conflict, 'a definitive break between the post-Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.' The world order that marked the last thirty years is shifting, and Sciutto details the realities of this new post-post-Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. With savvy, thorough reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict. The Return of Great Powers is an analysis of a historic and visible shift in real time. And it poses a question: that as we consider uncertain outcomes, we ask whether the West and Russia and China can prevent a new World War"--

"A conversation between public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire"--

"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have been greater. Around the world, adversaries were consolidating power, allies were drifting away, wars were raging, and climate change was accelerating, all while Russia was disrupting democracies and China was seeking to replace the U.S. as the world's preeminent power. Now for the first time since World War II, the United States risked falling from its unrivaled position. If Biden and his team failed, it would likely mark the end of an American era and the rise of a fractured and autocratic world order. In The Internationalists, acclaimed national security reporter Alexander Ward takes us behind the scenes to reveal the struggle to enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global crisis. Against the failure of Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden's all-star team-of-rivals must band together against incredible odds. Their successes, and their failures, will decide not just Biden's presidency. They will decide the very course of America's global future. As The Best and The Brightest chronicled the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy Administration, and The Rise of The Vulcans detailed the inner workings of George Bush's war machine, The Internationalists takes readers behind the scenes as Joe Biden and his cabinet embark on some of the most ambitious foreign policy initiatives of any president since Richard M. Nixon. Thanks to rigorous reporting and sources in the rooms where it happened, Ward delivers the first draft of history, the first definitive, unvarnished account of the Biden Doctrine, from the Fall of Kabul to the Rise of Kiev"--

In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics in India to the prospects for a new Cold War. Ever attentive to moments where the bizarre and the epic join forces, among the questions Žižek considers here are: Is the giant orgy, planned to take place in Ukraine in the event of a Russian nuclear attack, really all that morbid? And what should society do, whether on the big screen or the battlefield, in preparation for the end of the world?Agree with him or not, Žižek rarely fails to provoke in a productive fashion. By examining matters through a lens that is bold and original, and often joyfully outlandish, Žižek helps us to better grasp a world in which, increasingly, the dominant motif is one of madness.

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today?With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian affairs, Thomas Graham deftly traces the evolution of opposing ideas of national purpose that created an inherent tension in relations. Getting Russia Right identifies the blind spots that prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response. Distilling the Putin factor to reveal the contours of the Russia challenge facing the United States whenever he departs the scene, Graham lays out a compelling way to deal with it so that the United States can continue to advance its interests in a rapidly changing world.

“Generelt en af de bedste og mest grundige aktuelle globale analyser […] Bør anskaffes i de fleste biblioteker der ønsker aktuel litteratur” – Dansk Biblioteks Center om den første udgave af Verdens Magter i 2014I 2014 lancerede RÆSON bogen “Verdens Magter”, der løbende opdateres og genudgives (senest i 2017). Den nye udgave – som udkom fredag 24. marts 2023 – er skrevet af 7 eksperter, der på bogens 352 sider giver et fuldstændigt overblik over verdens syv mest magtfulde stater. Formatet er nyt: 155 x 230 mm. Ny på forfatterholdet er Flemming Splidsboel Hansen (f.1968), hvis kapitel om Rusland afslutter bogen.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on ';ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian ';A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind ';A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simultaneously so realistic and so optimistic, and always so damn readable well that is a miracle for which he should be greatly applauded.' Stephen Fry Humanity is in its infancy. Our future could last for millions of years or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. As we approach a critical juncture in our history, we can make profound moral decisions about how humanity's course plays out. We can create positive change on behalf of future generations, to prevent the use of catastrophic weapons and maintain peace between the world's great powers. We can improve our moral values, navigating the rise of AI and climate change more fairly for generations to come. The challenges we face are enormous. But so is the influence we have. If we choose wisely, our distant descendants will look back on us fondly, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world that is beautiful and just.

Kinas fremgang virker ustoppelig, det samme gør, trods protester, landets leder Xi Jinping. Som generalsekretær for kommunistpartiet og præsident for Kina regerer han over 1,4 milliard mennesker. Hvem er denne mand, der effektivt har opbygget sin magt, og hvad vil han bruge den til? Reformere Kina inden for kommunismens rammer og bringe økonomisk velstand til hele landets befolkning? Udfordre amerikansk overherredømme og gøre Kina til verdens dominerende magt? Hvad betyder hans planer for Vesten? Xi Jinpings officielle biografi er velkendt i Kina, men i denne biografi går Stefan Aust & Adrian Geiges bag om den officielle historie om hans liv, fra tidlig barndom til hans opstigning til partiets og statens højeste tinder, og afdækker, hvordan han blev den mest magtfulde mand i verden. Stefan Aust er tidligere chefredaktør for Tysklands førende nyhedsmagasin Der Spiegel og forfatter til adskillige velrenommerede bøger om politik og historie. Bl.a. det dokumentariske storværk om Rote Armee Fraktion, Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex (1985), som også er filmatiseret. Adrian Geiges er den mangeårige Beijing-korrespondent for ugemagasinet Stern, og har tidligere arbejdet som tv-reporter for Spiegel TV og RTL i Moskva og New York.

Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West.From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature of China's current situation - its treatment of dissent, of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see themselves.There are obstacles to the West accepting a more prominent place for China in the world - but just because this will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not how the West thought it would.

Det faktum, at de herskende idéer vedrørende vildnis er den herskende klasses idéer, er lige så lidt grund til ikke at beskæftige sig med begrebet, som det samme faktum gør sig gældende vedrørende demokrati eller frihed eller retfærdighed for den sags skyld. Selvfølgelig kan vi have en marxistisk teori om vildnis: Hvis marxismen er almægtig, fordi den er sand, så bør den også kunne indeholde denne del af verden. Kan der også være en kosmopolitisk teori vedrørende vildnis? Kan der være en vildnis-dyrkelse for fattige? Kan vi forestille os et sted, hvor vildnis og retfærdighed mødes? Er det muligt at redde en vildnis-politik og -æstetik fra de forgangene århundreders eller måske endda årtusinders klassekamp? Jeg mener, vi kan svare ja til alle ovenstående spørgsmål.

"This book examines the one state reality in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The two state solution remains the dominant frame for discussing the present and future relationship between Israel and the Palestinians. In this book we start not with hopes but the reality of an Israel that controls Palestine and the Palestinians and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Starting with the one state reality reshapes how we see the conflict, consider acceptable and unacceptable solutions, and discuss difficult normative questions"--

We need to act five times faster to tackle climate change before it is too late. A policy insider, Simon Sharpe provides compelling ideas on how to rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, diplomacy, and economics to speed up progress in addressing climate change.

"Witnesses were mysteriously murdered, and the FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on a rampage. It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power. ... Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, ... Risen presents [an] untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power--and winning"--Dust jacket flap.