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Buy Donald''s Book: Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment - https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Donald-L-Horowitz/dp/0300254369 Donald Horowitz is Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University. He was involved in the Constitution-Making of multiple Countries. And has studied the formation of constitutions in a variety of contexts and situations, particularly in soc...

Buy Manfred's Book: Globalization: A Very Short Introduction - https://www.amazon.de/Globalization-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0198779550 Manfred B. Steger is a Professor of ⁠Sociology⁠ at the ⁠University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa⁠.⁠ He is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily discourses of ⁠globalization⁠. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich....

Buy Rose's latest Book: Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor - https://www.amazon.de/Intelligence-Success-Failure-Human-Factor/dp/0199341745 Rose McDermott is Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She works in the areas of political psychology. She received her Ph. D. in Political Science and M.A. in Ex...

Buy Dannagal's Book: Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation - https://amzn.to/3wx7GTl Dannagal G. Young is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over sixty academic articles and book chapters on the co...

Buy Don's Book: Slavery in East Asia - https://amzn.to/3I9BVCk History Professor Don Wyatt (A.B. Beloit; A.M., Ph. D. Harvard) has taught at Middlebury College since 1986. Most of his courses are cross-listed with Philosophy. He specializes in the intellectual history of China, with research most currently focused on the intersections of identity and violence and the nexuses of ethnicity and s...

Buy Tom's Book: The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins - https://amzn.to/49hOaZC Thomas Higham is Professor of Scientific Archaeology at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna. He was, until August 2021, the Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford, where he was based for 20 years. He is best known for his...

Buy Oded's Book: The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality - https://amzn.to/3w4ZSIc Oded Galor (born 1953) is an Israeli-American economist who is currently Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is the founder of unified growth theory. Galor has contributed to the understanding of development over the entire course of human history and prehis...

. Get Mark's Book: Angrynomics - https://amzn.to/3u8NZ3A Mark McGann Blyth is a Scottish-American political economist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute f...

Buy David's Book: The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today - https://amzn.to/49gWrfX David Stasavage is an American political scientist known for his work on democracy and political economy. He is the Dean for the Social Sciences and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University's Department of Politics and an affiliated professor in NYU's School...

Buy Matthews Book: Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right - https://amzn.to/48XiM1J Matthew Dallek is a historian and professor of political management at George Washington University. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century U.S. politics, extremism, and the conservative movement. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscr...

Buy Scott's Book: Let There Be Money - https://amzn.to/3RJP9ez Scott Santens has been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013. Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking. He is the founder and president of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA Foundation), the S...

Buy John's Book: Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It - https://amzn.to/4a9x15j John Abramson MD, MS, has served as a family physician for 22 years. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 16 years, where he currently teaches health care policy. He currently consults as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry and h...

Buy Matthew's Book: Belarus under Lukashenka - https://amzn.to/49UnwGU Dr. Frear is Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Leiden University. He researches the politics the region and his book Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism was published in 2019. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Ayşe's Book: Before the West - https://amzn.to/47JjIq6 Ayşe Zarakol is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Prof. Goldgeier's Book: Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War - https://amzn.to/3sPU30b Prof. James Goldgeier is a member of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Professor at the School of Interna...

Buy Sergei's Book: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century - https://amzn.to/46tDswQ Sergey Maratovich Guriyev is a Russian economist, who is provost and a professor of economics at the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). He is a former member of the Russian government. From 2016 to 2019, he was the chief economist at the European Bank for Reconst...

Buy Marlene's Book: The Tribalization of Europe - https://amzn.to/3N5CD6x Dr. Marlene Wind is a Danish professor of Political science and law at the University of Copenhagen. She is educated at the EUI in Florence and works on the interplay between law and politics. She is also Special Advisor to the EU’s Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell. She has published 8 books and many academic articles...

Buy Chrisanthi's Book: Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War - https://amzn.to/3GdPlfJ Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis lectures in journalism at the University of South Australia. She researches decolonized journalism which connects marginalised communities to public discourse and connects local realities with global currents. Chrisanthi's Twitter/X handle: @chrisanthi_g Thank you for watching!...

Buy Manfred's Book: Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction - https://amzn.to/49QTYtN Manfred B. Steger is a Professor of ⁠Sociology⁠ at the ⁠University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa⁠.⁠ He is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily discourses of ⁠globalization⁠. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Stephen's Book: Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change - https://amzn.to/47ErvW6 Stephen Gross is an assistant professor in the department of history and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:21: 🌍...

Buy Martin's Book: Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China - https://amzn.to/3ulaq52 Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2004. In 2012, he received the Berlin Prize and...

Buy Avi's Book: Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars - https://amzn.to/4788dsd Loeb's Essays: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/Loeb's Professional website: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science (Astrophysics) at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Tim...

Buy Philip's Book: How to Build a Stock Exchange - https://amzn.to/3SxL2mM Dr. Philip Roscoe is an Academic, Podcaster, and Author of several Books on the Economy. Website: https://philiproscoe.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Philip_Roscoe 0:00: Intro 0:27: 💼 Why is Finance Important 4:22: 💰 History I : Joint-Stock Companies 9:04: 📊 History II : RealTime Trading 13:43: 📈 Brokers 18:11:...

Buy Paul's Book: Belarus in Crisis - https://amzn.to/3MglZkp Paul Hansbury is a UK-based consulting political analyst and the author of the book Belarus in Crisis. Educated at Birkbeck, University of London, and St Antony's College Oxford, his doctoral research was into the foreign policies of small powers - using Belarus as his primary case study. Website: www.paulhansbury.com Twitter: pa...

Buy Erica's Book: Water Always Wins - https://amzn.to/3tUTPEU Erica Gies is an independent journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, published in the U.S., the U.K., and China. Her reporting on water, climate change, plants and critters appears in Scientific American, Nature, The New York Times, bioGraphic, The Guar...