ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Summer Readings

ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Summer Readings

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR experts Vessela Tcherneva, Silvia Francescon, Ulrike Franke, Borja Lasheras, and board member Ivan Krastev, about summer readings. The list includes foreign policy books, wider readings to understand the world we live in, and finally what to read to get away from it all. The podcast was recorded on 28 July 2016.Books discussed:The force of reason by Oriana FallaciSenza la Guerra by Massimo Cacciari, Lucio Caracciolo, Ernesto Galli della Lggia and Elisabetta RasyLa febbre di Trump: Un fenomeno Americano by Mattia FerraresiLiberta a migrare: Perche ci spostiamo da sempre ed e bene cosi by Valerio Calzano and Telmo PievaniEn immersion a Molenbeek by Hind FraihiReichtum ohne Gier by Sahra WagenknechtWunschdenken: Europa, Währung, Bildung, Einwanderung – warum Politik so häufig scheitert by Thilo Sarrazin1913: The year before the storm by Florian IlliesLa France pour la vie by Nikolas Sarkozy Expert political judgement: How good is it? How can we know? By Philip E. TetlockGlobal inequality: A new approch for the age of globalisation by Branko MilanovicEl retorno de los chamanes by Victor LapuenteSiria, el país de las almas rotas by Javier Espinosa and Monica G. PrietoEsodo: Storia del nuovo millennio by Domenico Quirico The search for Europe: Contrasting approaches, published by BBVA1917: Razgadka “russkoj” revolyutsii by Nikolaj StarikovThe Silk Road: A new history of the world by Peter FrankopanPolitical epistemics: The secret police, the opposition, and the end of east German socialism by Andreas GlaeserThinking in time: The uses of history for decision makers by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. MayDiplomat i gradinar by Ivan D. StanchovIll fares the land by Tony JudtWhen facts change by Tony JudtBloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy SnyderThe responsible company: What we’ve learned from Patagonia’s first 40 years by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent StanleyDrone warfare by John Kaag and Sarah KrepsSwarm troopers: How small drones will conquer the world by David HamblingSternstunden der Menschheit by Stefan ZweigThe Star Rover by Jack LondonThe Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston De WaltDeath at La Fenice by Donna LeonAmerican Pastoral by Philip Roth

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