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Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis
______________________________________ 'An impressive polemic
arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's
Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times
'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and
stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding
book' - Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard
______________________________________ While most of the world was
lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's
ex-KGB regime had brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm
bells. First published in 2008 and since revised, The New Cold War
remains the most insightful and informative account of Russia
today. It depicts the regime's crushing of independent institutions
and silencing of critics, taking Russia far away from the European
mainstream. It highlights the Kremlin's use of the energy weapon in
Europe, the bullying of countries in the former Soviet empire, such
as Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine - and the way that Russian money
weakens the West's will to resist. Now updated with an incisive
analysis of Russia's seizure of Crimea and its destabilisation of
Ukraine, The New Cold War unpicks the roots of the Kremlin's
ideology and exposes the West's naive belief that Putin's sinister
and authoritarian regime might ever be a friend or partner.
An interdisciplanary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on
the concept of community. The concept of community plays a central
role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy,
his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in
many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced
in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason; the
community of substances in the third analogy; the realm of ends as
an ethical community; the state and the public sphere as political
communities; the sensus communis of the Critique of Judgment; and
the idea of the church as a religious community in Religion within
the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Given Kant's status as a systematic
philosopher, volume editorsPayne and Thorpe maintain that any
examination of the concept of community in one area of his work can
be understood only in relation to the others. In this volume, then,
scholars from different disciplines -- specializing in various
aspects of and approaches to Kant's work -- offer their
interpretations of Kant on the concept of community. The various
essays further illustrate the central relevance and importance of
Kant's conception of community to contemporary debates in various
fields. Charlton Payne is postdoctoral fellow at Plattform
Weltregionen und Interaktionen, Universitat Erfurt, Germany. Lucas
Thorpe is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy
atBogazici University, Turkey. Contributors: Ronald Beiner, Jeffrey
Edwards, Michael Feola, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Beatrice
Longuenesse, Jan Mieszkowski, Onora O'Neill, Charlton Payne, Susan
M. Shell, Lucas Thorpe, Eric Watkins, Allen W. Wood
This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in
early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly
interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as
anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that
Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature of ‘religion’ as
advanced through knowledge of the natural and social world, as a
prospective source of solidarity which could serve as the unifying
bond for communities, and as constituted by ethical conduct. It
shows how this re-conception was formed through a sincere and
considered reflection upon the problem of religious truth and was
shaped by the particular religious context of
early-nineteenth-century Britain. It then demonstrates the
importance of this reimagination of religion to their understanding
of socialism. Their religious interests were not an eccentric
adornment to their socialism, an outdated residue yet to be shed
and encumbering the development of a mature socialism, or merely
instrumental to their temporal goals. Instead, Owenite ambitions of
religious reform were grounded in the philosophical preoccupations
which animated their socialism.
________________________________ 'Putin [and] his friends ... are
gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem
small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating
all this so lightly.' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'This important
book is a sequel to the author's last indictment of the Putin
regime, The New Cold War, which came out four years ago. Deception
is, if anything, even more devastating.' - Standpoint 'Urgent and
heartfelt.' - The Times _____________________________________ From
the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's
Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna
Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western
spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In
Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her
colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine
missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals
unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold
War, providing the background to the new world of industrial and
political espionage. To tell the story of post-Soviet espionage,
Lucas draws on exclusive interviews with Russia's top NATO spy,
Herman Simm, and unveils the horrific treatment of a Moscow lawyer
who dared to challenge the ruling criminal syndicate there. Once
the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes
from the siloviki, Russia's ruthless 'men of power'.
The first edition of "The New Cold War" was published to great
critical acclaim. Edward Lucas has established himself as a top
expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou
Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR.
Since "The""New Cold War" was first published in February 2008,
Russia has become more authoritarian and corrupt, its institutions
are weaker, and reforms have fizzled. In this revised and updated
third edition, Lucas includes a new preface on the Crimean crisis,
including analysis of the dismemberment of Ukraine, and a look at
the devastating effects it may have from bloodshed to economic
losses. Lucas reveals the asymmetrical relationship between Russia
and the West, a result of the fact that Russia is prepared to use
armed force whenever necessary, while the West is not. Hard-hitting
and powerful, "The New Cold War" is a sobering look at Russia's
current aggression and what it means for the world.
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