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Foreign Policy, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy. For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, theyve not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but theyve secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, journalist Casey Michel contends some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous, repressive regimes in the process. These lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee, the inventor of the public relations industry - a man who whitewashed Mussolini, opened doors to the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it - and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing number of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies, among PR specialists and former lawmakers, and even within think tanks and universities. Many of these lobbyists have transformed into proxies for dictators and strongmen wherever they can be found. And for years, theyve escaped scrutiny. In Foreign Agents, Casey Michel shines a light on these foreign lobbyists, and all the damage and devastation they have caused in Washington and elsewhere. From Moscow to Beijing, from far-right nationalists to far-left communists, from anti-American autocrats to pro-Western authoritarians, these foreign lobbyists have helped any illiberal, anti-democratic government they can find. And after decades of success in installing dictator after dictator, and in tilting American policy in the process, some of these lobbyists have now begun trying to end Americas democratic experiment, once and for all.

Desde 2017, o mundo vem testemunhando o ressurgimento do Diálogo de Segurança Quadrilateral (Quad), um fórum de cooperação em defesa que reúne Estados Unidos, Japão, Índia e Austrália. Este livro inv

No dia 15 de agosto de 1974, no Palácio Itamaraty, em Brasília, o chanceler brasileiro Azeredo da Silveira e o vice-ministro do Comércio da China, Chen Chien, formalizaram o início de uma nova era das relaçes bilaterais. Portanto, em 2024, comemoram-se 50 anos da retomada das relaçes diplomaticas entre os dois paises. A publicaço de Montanhas e pescadores participa desse espirito de celebraço e pretende projetar um novo momento no dialogo transcultural Brasil-China.Este livro tem um traço original: a introduço e os 17 capitulos apresentam o pensamento chines contemporaneo no fluxo das principais preocupaçes que moldam a universidade chinesa. No campo dos estudos literarios e culturais, Montanhas e pescadores vale por uma fotografia panoramica do estado da arte da pesquisa de ponta na area das Humanidades.Uma vez que Brasil e China no se encontram no centro do mercado internacional de bens simbolicos, uma pergunta comum se impe: como reagir a hierarquizaço das relaçes internacionais? Ha obsesses estruturadoras da abordagem e da viso do mundo dos pesquisadores chineses que tambem constituem a nossa viso do mundo e abordagem. E fascinante perceber que respostas vizinhas foram desenvolvidas nas culturas chinesa e brasileira.Eis o caminho forjado como reaço a assimetria das trocas culturais: ampliar ao maximo o folego de leitura, estudar idiomas, familiarizar-se com o estrangeiro, desrespeitar deliberadamente limites e fronteiras; numa nota bem-humorada, andar a roda de uma biblioteca com um numero sempre crescente de estantes. No se trata de uma questo meramente quantitativa, porem da elaboraço de complexas sinteses criticas de um repertorio formado com base no transito entre o proprio e o alheio, o local e o global.Numa palavra: antropofagia - tanto chinesa quanto brasileira.Surpreender esse vinculo e a primeira pedra da ponte cuja construço e a tarefa historica decisiva dos dois paises. Um futuro comum sera tanto mais potente quanto mais solida e rapida for a sua edificaço.

El Sudeste Asiático y América Latina están separados por grandes distancias físicas, así como por culturas e idiomas muy diferentes. Desde un enfoque de "arriba hacia abajo", las relaciones comerciales entre ambas regiones se establecen por estrategias estatales y de organismos internacionales. Corrado G. M. Letta, respaldado por una rigurosa investigacion de campo, muestra en este libro que la conectividad entre America Latina y los paises del Sudeste Asiatico debe profundizarse, no a nivel institucional, sino a nivel personal para ser integral y sostenible. La clave del proceso es conocer y apreciar las culturas y mentalidades del "otro". En su obra Engineering East Asia-Latin America Economic Relations (2015), Letta se dedica a cubrir el deficit de informacion que tienen los empresarios del Sudeste Asiatico sobre los paises de America Latina. Este libro complementa el trabajo anterior presentando a los empresarios latinoamericanos los paises del Sudeste Asiatico: Brunei, Camboya, Indonesia, Laos, Malasia, Birmania, Filipinas, Singapur, Tailandia y Vietnam.Como enseña Lao-Tse, la prudencia aconseja proceder paso a paso, porque un viaje de mil millas comienza con un paso individual, ambicioso y humilde.

The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the publics relationship with the murky world of espionage and security. It lifted the lid on alleged Soviet infiltration of British services and revealed a culture of law-breaking, bugging and burgling. But how much do we know about the story behind the scandal? In To Catch a Spy, Tim Tate reveals the astonishing true story of the British governments attempts to silence whistleblower Peter Wright and hide the truth about Britains intelligence services and political elites. Its a story of state-sanctioned cover-up plots; of the government lying to Parliament and courts around the world; and of stories leaked with the intention to mislead and deceive. This is a tale of high treason and low farce. Drawing on thousands of pages of previously unpublished court transcripts, the contents of secret British government files, and original interviews with many of the key players in the Spycatcher trials, it draws back the curtain on a hidden world. A world where spies, politicians and Britains most senior civil servants conspired to ride roughshod over the law, prevented the public from hearing about their actions and mounted a cynical conspiracy to deceive the world. It is the story of Peter Wrights ruthless and often lawless obsession to uncover Russian spies, both real and imagined, his belated determination to reveal the truth and the lengths to which the British government would go to silence him.

Im Jahr 1952 bildeten Politiker aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien, Italien, den Niederlanden und Luxemburg die erste Ad-hoc-Versammlung mit dem Ziel, eine Verfassung fur eine kunftige europaische politische Gemeinschaft zu entwerfen. In ihren Uberlegungen, wie eine parlamentarische Regierung in einer supranationalen Gemeinschaft realisiert werden konnte, formulierten die Teilnehmer zentrale Aspekte der europaischen Politisierung.Das Buch entdeckt diesen bisher vernachlassigten Ursprung des parlamentarischen Europas neu und untersucht die Bedeutung der Ad-hoc-Versammlung fur die Politisierung der europaischen Integration. Es geht der Frage nach, wie die Versammlung als Projekt der europaischen Integration nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg funktionierte, und erklart sie als einen Moment in der politischen Theorie- und Begriffsgeschichte des Parlamentarismus, der Perspektiven fur spatere Phasen der Parlamentarisierung der EU eroffnet.