Assignée à résidence depuis les années 1990, persécutée par la junte militaire au pouvoir en Birmanie, Aung San Suu Kyi, prix Nobel de la paix en 1991, continue de prôner la non-violence.
C'est dans les fondements du bouddhisme qu'elle puise son énergie politique : pour elle, la libération du peuple passe par une révolution des esprits. Moins d'un siècle plus tôt, en 1906, Trotsky justifiait la nécessité d'une insurrection armée pour lutter contre un Etat par nature violent. Ainsi s'opposent deux visions de la révolution, deux stratégies pour servir un même but : l'émancipation des peuples.
''A political epic'' - Guardian
''This is the book Trump fears most.'' - Axios
Few journalists have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few better understand the polarizing 45th president or his motivations. In this astonishing, illuminating book, Haberman reveals all about Trump the man, the president and the phenomenon.
Interviews with hundreds of sources and with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture for decades, laying the groundwork to galvanize support for a successful run for high office.
Chronicling Trump''s entire career, from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and potential comeback, Confidence Man is a magnificent, disturbing reckoning of the president who pushed American democracy to the brink.
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and explains why promises made under force ought not to be kept.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
"Helmut Schmid is one of the finest typographers worldwide." - Designculture.
The Austrian typographer and graphic designer Helmut Schmid (1942-2018) was acknowledged globally as a master of his craft. Schmid put his own spin on Emil Ruder's teachings while remaining faithful to his principles of clarity, simplicity and elegance. Living in Osaka, Vancouver and Germany (where he worked for the German Social Democratic Party and the German chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt), Schmid merged Eastern and Western influences in his editorial design, product packaging, political and corporate visual identity. This bilingual monograph explores the typographer's oeuvre in its entirety. The book's generous design allows each image to breathe; accompanying texts narrate Schmid's life and career in an informative but pleasant manner. Complementing the publications Weingart: Typography and Ruder Typography, Ruder Philosophy, Schmid Typography completes Lars Müller Publishers' surveys of the Basel school of typographic thought.
Cette édition bilingue du Prince, précédée des textes brefs et variés que Machiavel a rédigés lorsqu'il était impliqué dans la vie politique, permet de remettre l'un des traités les plus importants et les plus commentés de l'histoire dans son contexte historique et politique.
Par-delà l'idée d'un chemin électoral vers la démocratie et des muta- tions institutionnelles mises en place depuis les années 1900, on constate que les logiques familiales dans l'accès aux positions et ressources du pouvoir font toujours sens et restent logées au coeur des trajectoires socio-historiques de l'État et des modes de transfert du pouvoir dans les sociétés africaines. Elles continuent d'alimenter les relations de loyautés et d'allégeances politiques, ainsi que le renouvellement du personnel politique.
Ce dossier interroge les registres émotionnels dans lesquels s'expriment les rapports de domination dans les sociétés africaines contemporaines. Cette politique des affects permet de voir comment l'univers politique est dominé par un langage de séduction mobilisant et manipulant les registres émotionnels de la famille et de la parenté.
Ce numéro entend donc restituer les logiques originales de production de la famille comme lieu du politique que ce soit en termes d'énonciation, de représentations ou de pratiques. Les contributions soulignent combien l'imbrication entre famille et politique prévaut dans de nombreuses régions, tant en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, en Europe, en Asie, que dans les États arabes ou qu'en Afrique, afin d'aban- donner les préjugés concernant les sociétés perçues comme ayant des familles « archaïques » ou des politiques « exotiques ».
From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move and inspire today. 'Impeccable. MacArthur prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that sets the scene perfectly. An attractive volume' Andrew Roberts, Sunday Times 'Works well not just as an anthology but as a history' Independent on Sunday
Ouvrage collectif multilingue publié par Jean-Jacques M'U avec les contributions de Mikis Theodorakis, Marie-Laure Veillan, Marie-Caroline Porteu, Okeanos, et des traducteurs espérantistes d'AMIKARO.
Résultat inespéré des solidarités de toutes sortes (techniques, intellectuelles, financières...), cette édition regroupe les textes fondamentaux du mouvement d'occupation espagnol 15M né avec les printemps arabes. Acte politique intervenant dans la campagne électorale de 2012 il reconnaît que nos actuels élus ne représentent pas les intérêts du peuple. Sur le modèle de l'éducation populaire, il envisage la mise en oeuvre méthodologique d'une démocratie réelle maintenant fondée sur l'horizontalité, l'apartidisme et les volontés exprimées au sein des assemblées populaires où les représentants mandatés de manière impérative et révocable seront tirés au sort pour poser les termes d'une Constituante au bénéfice de l'intérêt commun. L'ensemble interroge à travers la langue espéranto le caractère sans frontière de la communication des « Indignés ».
Le général José Maria Mendes Norton de Mattos (1867-1955), militant républicain et responsable militaire pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, a été l'organisateur du Corps expéditionnaire portugais allié à la France. Opposant au gouvernement de Sidonio Pais (1917), il a été exilé à Londres. De retour au Portugal, il devint ambassadeur du Portugal à Londres. Candidat aux élections présidentielles de 1948, alors que le pays comptait déjà vingt-deux ans de dictature salazariste, Norton de Mattos a été le plus grand combattant électoral et le plus ferme contre Salazar et l'Etat Nouveau.
Afin de sortir des politiques d'exploitation maritime néfastes engagées par la mondialisation, Ingo Nierman élabore différents scénarios pour renouer cette relation perdue entre l'homme et la mer.
L'intérêt pour les savoirs locaux est récent.
Pendant longtemps, il était admis que la modernité impliquait la destruction de ces savoirs et que le progrès dépendait de transferts scientifiques et techniques. Les échecs de l'aide ont remis en cause ces idées reçues et contraint à repenser les rapports entre sciences et savoirs. Entre la crainte d'une disparition et l'illusion d'une dynamique endogène des savoirs, leur rencontre avec la modernité peut susciter le changement.
Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans ces débats à propos de sociétés du Sud et du Nord qui entretiennent des rapports étroits avec leurs environnements naturels.
Il rassemble des contributions sur le rôle du savoir dans le développement régional, présentés à une conférence qui s'est tenue à Tromso, en Norvège du Nord. Événement symbolique, un pasteur mbororo du Nord-Cameroun, éleveur de zébus, a rencontré à cette occasion des pasteurs sami, éleveurs de rennes.
Au-delà de cette rencontre, des points communs sont apparus entre les régions arctiques et tropicales : rudesse d'environnements peu favorables à l'agriculture, éloignement par rapport aux capitales donc aux centres de décisions, contradictions entre les populations et les administrations, irrégularités et inégalités dans l'accès aux ressources naturelles.
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today''s fossil fuel-driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next ''Star Wars'' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History , he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans'' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. --Bill Gates, Gates Notes , Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows--ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity--for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today''s fossil fuel-driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts--from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity''s energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil''s Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Following an unrivalled political career that spanned a remarkable sixty years and reached both the heights and the depths of political fortune, Sir Winston Churchill undoubtedly became the world's most caricatured politician of all time. From entering Parliament in 1900 through to his retirement in 1964, Winston Churchill in Cartoons will chart Churchill's illustrious and tumultuous political career through the work of leading cartoonists from around the world.
Through these cartoons there developed very contrary views of Churchill; the glorious cigar-chomping wartime leader and the flawed politician. In America he was adored by cartoonists, while in Nazi Germany and in the post-war Soviet Union he was, unsurprisingly, painted as a bumbling buffoon. After his passing in 1965, great contemporary cartoonists including Peter Brookes, Steve Bell, Matt and Gerald Scarfe, continued to use him as a benchmark for the world leaders that followed.
Featuring the work of the some of the greatest cartoonists of all time and providing a new perspective of an iconic figure, Winston Churchill in Cartoons will include the very best and wittiest portrayals of Churchill the glorious wartime leader, controversial politician, and emblematic British statesman.
Quelles sont les conditions de possibilité de l'agir politique et d'une démocratie radicale? Proposant une lecture empirique et théorique de l'oeuvre de Judith Butler, ce livre discute l'actualité - parfois brûlante - des politiques de coalition dans différents contextes culturels. Bilingue, et rédigé par des auteures issues des quatre coins de l'Europe, il s'adresse à un large public intéressé par la pensée critique et les récents développements dans les études féministes, queer, postcoloniales et transnationales.
What are the conditions of possibility for political agency and a radical democracy? This book offers empirical and theoretical contributions engaging with Judith Butler's work and addressing the urgency of coalition politics in different cultural contexts. Written by researchers from all over Europe, the texts are available in French and English. The book is designed for a wide audience interested in critical thinking and the recent developments in feminist, queer, postcolonial and transnational studies.
En Afrique s'est installée la culture du pouvoir personnel et égoïste. Ainsi des groupes d'intérêt s'imposent, fondant l'autorité de l'Etat sur la force, abandonnant les nobles objectifs républicains, cultivant la corruption. Avec le Contrat républicain on va vivre et revivre les comportements républicains et démocratiques ; mettre en avant, par les institutions et les individus, les objectifs communs, d'intérêt général, en vue du bonheur de chaque personne et de tout le monde.
Depuis la résolution des Nations unies sur le partage de la Palestine et la proclamation de la création d'un Etat juif par David Ben Gourion en 1948, le Proche-Orient n'a jamais trouvé la paix.
Pourtant, au début des années 1990, la main tendue de Yasser Arafat, qui reconnaît, de fait, l'existence de l'État d'Israël, et la réponse d'Itzhak Rabin laissent entrevoir la possibilité d'un accord de paix. L'espoir est de courte durée : le discours de paix de Rabin sera son dernier, et l'Autorité palestinienne représentée par Arafat sera affaiblie par les luttes internes et les pressions politico-militaires israéliennes.
The inspiring story of the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee, told in the new Who HQ NOW format for trending topics.
On August 22, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first African-American and South Asian-American woman to be selected as the vice presidential running mate on a major party's ticket. While her nomination was not unexpected, her rise to national prominence was one filled with unexpected turns and obstacles. After failing her first bar exam to become a lawyer, she tried again and passed. From there, she quickly rose through the legal ranks, serving as district attorney of San Francisco, then California's attorney general, and soon, senator. As a politician, Kamala Harris has been a vocal champion of progressive reforms and women's rights. This exciting story details the defining moments of what led to her nomination and all the monumental ones since that have shaped her career and the future of America.
The first 50 years of the human rights movement were hindered by the Cold War. With that hindrance removed, the 1990's were a period of growth and improvement in human rights law and institutions. Since 2001, the period has been marked by preoccupations regarding terrorism: the latter has taken much attention and energy away from other human rights problems. We live a world order in which some sovereign states beat primary powers and responsibilities in the life of their populations. Success in promoting human rights requires hard-to-achieve success in other areas including building more capable, responsive, effi cient, and non-corrupt governments, dealing with failed states, increasing economic productivity, improving the power and status of women, improving education, and managing international tensions and confl icts. Even if there are some grounds for optimism, making sure that human rights are respected worldwide will take centuries, not decades. How to think through and implement human rights and individual sovereignty imperatives? How to address the demands of international justice and the rights associated with them? How to implement a multilateral culture without having it become a tool of Western extension and colonization? How to handle the effects of the paradox of contemporary democratic culture? Dealing with such Human rights and State responsibility problematics, Nasser Zammit signs a major refl exion about the globalized post-2001 world. Nasser Zammit holds a Ph.D in International Relations and Diplomacy, he is Doctor in Political Science, graduated with a Master in Strategic Studies and Defense Policy, he was a former airline pilot. He is currently special Advisor and International Consultant.
Organisation De Cooperation Et De Developpement Economiques
Les Essentiels De L'ocde
23 Mai 2009
9789264053632
The Western Balkan region benefits from a cost-competitive labour force and geographic and cultural proximity to EU markets. However, cost competitiveness as a source of differentiation is not sustainable. Cost levels are increasing gradually in some sectors, reducing firms´ profitability. In order to sustain competitiveness, the Western Balkans needs to move up the value chain, from investing in automated technology to producing higher-quality goods and enhancing its human capital. This report examines the apparel manufacturing, automotive components and business process and technology outsourcing sectors, focusing on market competitiveness factors, industry key success factors and policy recommendations.
Organisation De Cooperation Et De Developpement Economiques
20 Mai 2009
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The OECD's PISA 2006 assessment of the science competencies of 15-year-olds offers the first comprehensive and internationally comparative knowledge base of students' knowledge about the environment and environment-related issues. Green at Fifteen? presents an analysis of this knowledge base, including information on the sources of students' awareness of environmental science, their attitudes towards the environment and how these attitudes interrelate with their performance in environmental science.
Tables des matières:
Foreword Overview Readers's Guide Chapter 1. PISA 2006 and Students' Performance in Environmental Science and Geoscience Chapter 2. Profile of Student Performance in Environmental Science and Geoscience Chapter 3. Making Connections and Taking Responsibility Chapter 4. Learning about Environmental Science and Geoscience References Appendix A. Data Tables Appendix B. Technical Notes
Organisation De Cooperation Et De Developpement Economiques
4 Juillet 2008
9789264043732
The key strategic task ahead for the Norwegian government is to maintain high, sustainable growth even after the depletion of oil and gas reserves. Any foreseeable restructuring of the Norwegian economy compatible with this goal will entail a shift towards knowledge-based activities for which innovation is the key determinant of competitiveness. This report assesses the current status of Norway's innovation system and policies, and identifies where and how the government should focus its efforts to improve the country's innovation capabilities.
