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A obra analisa a viabilidade jurídico-política da implementação do Voto Destituinte no Brasil, dentro do contexto de promessas não cumpridas da modernidade, sob o ângulo do sistema político represent

Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.First published in 2009 under the title Whats so eastern about Eastern Europe?, this book is much more than a revised and updated version of the first edition. Its presentation of the political and cultural history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, written in an accessible language is now complemented with recent developments in the region. The new edition digs into the reasons behind the illiberal turn in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere, putting the alleged democratic backslide into the wider context of European populism. Leon Marc offers a new and fresh perspective in explaining the roots of populism and social conservatism in the region, which the book sees in a mixture of historical factors, economic conditions, the heavy burden of Communist legacy, as well as a reaction to contemporary social developments in the West. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book calls for more sensibility to these underlying causes, critical examination of the true European values, and for a coalition of defenders of Humanism and Judeo-Christian tradition as key pillars of its identity, in order to save Europe and its liberal democracy.This updated and expanded edition contains a brand new chapter bringing this book up to date with recent events, including Covid-19 and the Ukrainian conflict.

One of the worlds most seasoned international relations experts updates and revises his far-sighted 1999 book arguing that the Cold War did not, in fact, end with the collapse of the USSR and that the US, Russia and China today are locked anew in a spiral of hostilities.

Um relato inspirador de uma mulher que teve de desafiar as suas expectativas para defender o seu paísQuando Tracy Walder se matriculou na universidade, nunca pensou que de lá sairia para a CIA, ou que iria voar ate ao Medio Oriente sob uma identidade falsa para caçar terroristas.A Espia Inesperada e a historia fascinante da entrada de Walder na CIA e, mais tarde, no FBI. Em salas de alta segurança, ela analisou as movimentaçes de membros da al-Qaeda enquanto o presidente Bush observava por cima do seu ombro e o diretor da CIA lhe trazia donuts.A manipulaço dos graficos por ela criados sobre terroristas levou a invaso do Iraque. Guiada pela luta contra o terror, Walder interrogou extremistas homens que haviam jurado nunca falar com uma mulher e seguiu os seus rastos atraves da Africa, Europa e Medio Oriente, impedindo multiplos ataques.Posteriormente transferiu-se para o departamento de contrainformaço do FBI, onde ajudou a prender um dos espies mais importantes alguma vez detido nos EUA. Apanhar os maus da fita no era um problema no FBI, mas o sexismo generalizado era. Walder deixou o FBI para ensinar jovens, encorajando-as a encontrarem um lugar no FBI, CIA, Departamento de Estado ou Senado e assim transformarem o mundo.

"Em Dois impeachments, dois roteiros: os casos Collor e Dilma, [Antonio] Capuzzo traz um olhar atento não apenas sobre o movimento protagonista do STF, mas também das ausências, idiossincrasias e inc

In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for the rest of his life. Fianna Fail endured decades of splits, turmoil and leadership heaves. Until now, no one has revealed the pivotal role of an IRA informer in the affair. The part he played became the best-kept State secret of the last half-century. The book also reveals a dirty tricks campaign by Britains Foreign Office to conceal the ancillary role of a British agent called Capt. Markham-Randall in the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on the eve of the eruption of the Arms Crisis.

Cultura e sociedade em Portugal, dos anos 80 a actualidadeComeçando por retratar a cultura de direita portuguesa dos anos 80 aos nossos dias, o autor debruça-se sobre os grandes pontos de clivagem que, pelo menos a superficie, continuam a dividir as culturas de esquerda e de direita em Portugal.Percorrendo diversas tendencias contemporaneas como a proliferaço do lifestyle e do trendy, a revisitaço light do salazarismo, os livros de auto-ajuda e outras taras actuais, a sociedade portuguesa e apresentada como adversa a extremismos, realçando-se as muitas afinidades ocultas entre direita e esquerda mais numerosas e profundas do que costumamos julgar.

Os leitores encontrarão neste manual uma análise geral do conceito constitucional, administrativo e político usado no dia-a-dia das Câmaras Municipais do pais, divididos em vinte e sente partes, onde

Este é um livro de bolso sobre eneagrama e persuasão O Eneagrama refere-se a um símbolo de nove pontas que, como modelo estrutural gráfico, distingue, ordena e correlaciona nove qualidades que são as

O livro definitivo sobre o declínio da diplomacia americana por um dos grandes repórteres atuais.Em uma investigação fascinante pelos corredores do poder em Washington, passando por lugares como Afeg

In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britains doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense of foreboding that would soon erupt into full-blown rioting. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles approaches, Ken Wharton takes a thorough look at the start of the Troubles, the precursors and the explosion of violence in 1969 that would last until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In all, the Troubles cost 50,000 casualties and nearly 2,000 civilians lives across Northern Ireland, the Republic and England. Utterly condemnatory of the paramilitaries, Wharton pulls no punches in his assessment of the situation then and seeks to dismiss apologists today. His sympathy lies first with those tasked with keeping order in the province, but also with the innocent civilians caught up in thirty years of bloodshed. Torn Apart is an in-depth look at the start of the Troubles, looking at the seminal moments and Northern Ireland today using the powerful testimony of those who were there at the time.

Discover the Inspiring Story of a Revolutionary: Mick Ryans memoir of growing up in Dublins East Wall and his journey as former IRA Director of Operations. Explore his commitment to the cause, despite suffering, hardship, and disappointment in My Life in the IRA. Understand why these volunteers persisted against all odds, driven by a deep sense of obligation to the ideals of 1916. Immerse yourself in the journey of a man who saw his involvement as a calling, a way to give meaning to his life. Get a unique perspective on the Irish struggle for independence and be moved by this tale of bravery, conviction and regret.

Dando prosseguimento à coleção Lições Esquematizadas, REIS FRIEDE une-se novamente à Freitas Bastos, agora para o lançamento da obra Lições Esquematizadas de Ciência Política e Teoria Geral do Estado

Geoffrey Prime was a Soviet spy throughout the most intense years of the Cold War. The linguist served his paymasters for almost fourteen years and became the most important Russian mole in British signals intelligence since German Enigma decryptions were leaked from Bletchley Park during World War Two. Recruited while serving in Berlin with the Royal Air Force, he became uniquely placed to betray his countrys innermost secrets when he later obtained employment at the nerve-centre of government communications, GCHQ. By various clandestine methods of transcription and meetings overseas with his controllers, Prime divulged information on a massive scale until shortly before his arrest. His eventual downfall lay in an inability to control his lust for pre-pubescent girls and the conscience of a wife unable to live with the knowledge that her husband was not only a child molester but also an espionage agent. This is an involved story of debased morality and dishonour, siezed upon by an unscrupulous regime to its own advantage, and unearthed by unsuspecting provincial detectives in a tale of a police investigation on an unprecedented scale.

Glyphosate is everywhere. The worlds most widely sold pesticide is present in farmland, fields and rivers. We eat it in bread, drink it in beer and carry it in our bodies. No problem, say the authorities responsible for its approval and the manufacturers, the weed killer has been thoroughly examined and is safe. Not true, says the WHOs own cancer research agency which classified the pesticide as a "probable human carcinogen" in 2015. But if the WHO cancer researchers found "sufficient evidence" of a carcinogenic effect, how could the licensing authorities fail for decades to find "any signs" in the same animal studies?The search for answers leads the author of this investigative and enthralling book into official U.S. archives from the 1970s and 80s, and on to the documents being used in the current European approvals process. The details of the secret studies by Monsanto & Co. which this research brings to light provide unsettling insights into the entanglements between industry, private testing institutions and the regulatory authorities. They expose a system which allows the chemical manufacturers to downplay the risks of their products. In the end the question remains: do our governments offer greater protection to commercial interests, or to our health?

This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and intelligence services with loyalist paramilitaries of the UDA & UVF throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Covert British Army units, mass sectarian screening, propaganda dirty tricks, arming sectarian killers and a point-blank refusal over the worst two decades of the conflict, to outlaw the largest loyalist killer gang in Northern Ireland. It shows how tactics such as curfew and internment were imposed on the nationalist population in Northern Ireland and how London misled the European Commission over internments one-sided nature. It focuses particularly on the British Governments refusal to proscribe the UDA for two decades probably the most serious abdication of the rule of law in the entire conflict. Previously classified documents show a clear pattern of official denial, at the highest levels of government, of the extent and impact of the loyalist assassination campaign.

In the 1940s and 1950s Ernie OMalley interviewed survivors of Irelands struggle for independence. These interviews, now being made available to the public for the first time, give a fascinating insight into the times and the people who fought.The West Cork interviews detail IRA intervention in Ulster, as well as giving prominence to the Cork No. 5 Brigade. Of eight interview subjects, five participated in the IRAs invasion of Northern Ireland. The interviewees talk about the Republican rifle exchange with the National Army which occurred secretly in May 1922, as Free State rifles supplied by Britain were swapped with IRA rifles, which were then sent to arm the IRA in Ulster. They also document the gruesome torture of Brigade Commander Ted OSullivan.

Conor Cruise OBriens brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.OBrien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.Foreign Affairs[Passion and Cunning] displays once again [OBriens] wonderful range of talents: a beautiful command of the language, gentle wit and coruscating satire, shrewd political judgment and a raking critical power. OBrien is, moreover, a critic against all-comers, his spiky guns pointing in all directions: woe betide anyone incautious enough to presume that OBrien is on their side. . . OBrien believes in all manner of good causes, but his own independence is finally what he cares about most. R. W. Johnson, London Review of Books

Arguably Conor Cruise OBriens most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965. I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library in Devonshire thirty years ago. Nobody who tries to write about either of those subjects, or about "the bloody crossroads" where they have so often met, can disown a debt to the Cruiser. Christopher Hitchens, London Review of BooksWhen a liberal can write such pieces as "Mercy and Mercenaries", "Journal de Combat", "Varieties of Anti-Communism", "A New Yorker Critic", and "Generation of Saints", an important voice has returned to our culture. Raymond Williams,Guardian

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise OBriens searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic.If The Great Melody (1992) is OBriens major academic work, States of Ireland is the one that will endure as a vital moment in Irish intellectual and political history. Roy Foster, StandpointStates of Ireland [is] a book which influenced a generation. [OBrien] saw that partition, while scarcely desirable in itself, recognized the reality of two different communities in the island, and that the Dublin states formal irredentist claim on Northern Ireland was undemocratic and even imperialistic, as well as insincere. The republican ideology to which most Irish people paid lip service was a shirt of Nessus, he later wrote: "it clings to us and burns". Geoffrey Wheatcroft,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography