"The Modern Social Conflict" offers a concise, authoritative, and accessible account of where the Western democracies stand today, how they got there, and where they must go if they are to retain their political and social freedom. Part history, part social analysis, part deeply committed prescription, this "essay on the Politics of Liberty" is a ...
This is an assessment of the Central and East European Publishing Project, an initiative designed to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations. The nine years of its existence straddle the largest watershed in European history since 1945, ...
The London School of Economics and Political Science -- the LSE -- is one of the most famous academic institutions in the world. This history provides a lively account of the fist century of a university which, form its beginnings has captured not only the minds of social scientists but also the imagination of a wider public. It is the biography ...
Revolutions are melancholy moments in history - brief gasps of hope that remain submerged in misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions, like 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, but applies to lesser political upheavals as well. They are preceded by years of repression, arrogant power, and malign neglect of people's needs. A ...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended the division of Europe into East and West, and the features of our world that have resulted bear little resemblance to those of the forty years that preceded the Wall's fall. The rise of a new Europe prompts many questions, most of which remain to be answered. What does it all mean? Where is it ...
En este libro, Ralf Dahrendorf analiza los peligros que amenazan el orden liberal en los Estados democraticos y los obstaculos para el establecimiento de ese orden en aquellos paises que apenas lo conocen o que nunca lo han conocido. En las democracias occidentales, la libertad esta amenazada por una globalizacion sustraida a la formacion de la ...
'1989 was as important a date as 1945; it was a watershed.' - Lord Dahrendorf. The essays assembled in this volume are a thoughtful and lively commentary on Europe after the revolution of 1989. Must revolutions fail? Certainly, the open society has its own problems, not least that of citizens in search of meaning. The Good Society has to square ...
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