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We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest att...

Jan Werts brings a unique perspective to the European Council. As a journalist, he has reported on the spot from virtually every European Council meeting since 1975, a witness to countless episodes of last-minute arm-twisting and creative compromise. As a scholar, he wrote the first ever doctoral dissertation on the European Council, published in 1992. In 2008 he carried the story forward to the verge of the start of the permanent presidency. In this latest book, against the background of the...

A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change.

"Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how difficult it is to form governments, how little they can do and how harshly they are punish...

All political systems come to an end, even democracies - David Runciman shows us how to recognise the signs and how to think about what might come next.

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.

What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Libya, Iran and more to reveal how modern-day diplomacy really works.

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.