The following books as far as I know have not been translated to Greek yet, but they should.
Geopolitics and Foreign Policy
John Joseph Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago:
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer (Yale University Press, 2018)
How states think : the rationality of foreign policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato (Yale University Press 2023)
An Endgame for the Ukrainian War ~80min Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) and Alexander Mercouris (@amercouris) talk with John Mearsheimer - Sep 9, 2023.
Glenn Diesen is Professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty by Glenn Diesen (I.B. Tauris 2021)
Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics by Glenn Diesen (Palgrave Macmillan 2022)
The Think Tank Racket: Managing the Information War with Russia by Glenn Diesen (Clarity Press 2023)
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order by Glenn Diesen (Clarity Press 2023)
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
A new foreign policy : beyond American exceptionalism (Columbia University Press 2018)
The ages of globalization : geography, technology, and institutions (Columbia University Press 2020)
US Efforts to Strangle China & Reassert Hegemony ~68 min Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) and Alexander Mercouris (@amercouris) talk with Jeffrey D. Sachs - September 15, 2023
History and Culture
The West: A New History In Fourteen Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney (Dutton 2023)
Note It develops a critical attitude towards our perceptions of the past, important as global geopolitical changes will force us to reconsider our place in the Western world.
Technology and Society
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (Penguin 2017)
Note Very useful as quantifiction and algorithms are starting to play a role in Greece too.
One of the most vocal proponents of quantification is Niki Kerameus, currently Minister of Interior, and previously Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of Greece (2019–2023). She was also member of the Class of 2020 of the Forum of Young Global Leaders which is an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
There is recently opposition for the new digital IDs in Greece because people assumed they will be used for tracking while the real issue is single number identification which simplifies database operations and data analysis among other things. The much bigger issue is the use of algorithms in society decisions. The books examines these issues and is needed if the opposition to government is to be more focused.
- Third version: Tue, Nov 14
- First version: Tue, Sep 12, 2023
