Onze honger naar fossiele brandstoffen ligt aan de basis van de klimaatcrisis, (koloniale) oorlogen, economische recessies en zoveel meer. Vandaag staan we echter aan het begin van een wereldwijde energietransformatie. Terwijl we onze afhankelijkheid van olie, steenkool en gas afbouwen, wordt hernieuwbare energie de ruggengraat van een nieuw systeem.

Zal deze transformatie van de wereld een veiligere plek maken? Dat is de vraag die Mathieu Blondeel en Moniek de Jong willen beantwoorden in dit...

Waarom kost het Alexander De Croo (Open Vld) tien maanden van aarzelen, draaien en keren, voor hij uiteindelijk premier wordt van een Vivaldi-regering? Wat hing hem boven het hoofd? En hoever precies gingen Bart De Wever (N-VA) en Paul Magnette (PS) in het sluiten van hun ‘grote deal’ voor België?

‘De doodgravers van België’ geeft een unieke inkijk in de machinekamer van de Belgische politiek. Op basis van tientallen achtergrondgesprekken vertelt journalist Wouter Verschelden het ...

Bernie Sanders en Donald Trump vormen op hun oude dag de eerste generatie van een slag politici dat via social media het establishment effectief weet te bestrijden. Beiden organiseren events waar tienduizenden fans op af komen. Logisch want 70 procent van de Amerikanen zegt dat het land op een verkeerd spoor zit.

Donald Trump blies met een ongekend botte campagne zestien tegenkandidaten omver. Kroonprins Jeb Bush werd als futloos ontmaskerd. De miljardair durfde het zelfs aan om de geruchten...

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...

Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main Currents of Marxism: "A prophetic work," according to the Library of Congress, that provides "the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the 20th century."

'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns.

How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, ...

'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017

Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump

Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers, how they work, an...

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the design of an interpretive research project.

Such an approach to design starts with the recognition ...

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing--one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social ...