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1.Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda by: Michael Burleigh October 01, 2007
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Gave up on this book after a few chapters. Found the author to be a narrow minded arse quite frankly. I had to laugh at many of his opinions that were not backed by any facts but only his right wing bias. I skipped a few chapters to see if it would get any better but it just got more ridiculous. I am glad I didnt buy this book I only borrowed it from the local library and I couldnt take it back soon enough.

2.Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century by: Philip Bobbitt May 29, 2008
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This book is a really interesting look at 21st-century terrorism, from its evolution in history to its current aims and capabilities and to future predictions as to how society will live with terrorism in the future. Central to the argument of the book is the paradigm shift that a globalised and decentralised terrorist network represents to 20th-century thinking over state provision of security to its citizens. Where terrorist networks adopt the tools of a globalised world. The Internet as a tool for the dissemination of propaganda, the recruitment of supporters, and creation of a virtual "ummah" (Muslim brotherhood). The franchise model of market capitalism for the outsourcing of terrorist attacks, motivated by disparate grievances and perpetrated ... Read More:

3.Earthly Powers: The Conflict Between Religion & Politics from the French Revolution to the Great War by: Michael Burleigh October 02, 2006
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Michael Burleig is a historian of some re-known and brings his undoubted abilities in the creation of this book. His central theses

4.Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane History) by: Mark Mazower June 05, 2008
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This is an excellent book, with a qualifying 'but'. If you want to understand the dynamic of 'Hitlers Empire', how it developed and collapsed, and the details of its particular favour of genocidal gangsterism, then this will satisfy all the curiosity you have, and then some. My only complain about the main content is that it is a bit short on personalities (though this may be an unavoidable problem - the focus of the book is, after all, on process and governance). You get little real feel for the _people_ who did all this. Mazower does not mention anyone having nightmares, or developing a drink problem (lots of people are mentioned as having drinking problems, but only for the usual, soap-opera sort of reasons, not because of a day job in the mass murder business), ... Read More:

5.Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by: Adam Zamoyski February 04, 2008
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Warsaw 1920 is an easily available book on an important topic. As an introductory narrative it's OK. There's little exploration of major themes, the presumptions behind what analysis there is are unexplored. Quite why (other than a 'miracle') the Poles reversed their early defeats remains unexplained. The wider context of the Russian Civil War isn't really integrated. The pro-Polish bias grates after a while. Much richer, if you can still get it, is Norman Davies' 'White Eagle, Red Star'. Plenty wrong with that as well, but it provides a deeper exploration that makes it useful even if you don't share Davies' viewpoint.

6.McMafia: Crime without Frontiers: Crime Without Frontiers by: Misha Glenny April 03, 2008
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I bought this book after reading a serialisation in a paper, and found it a really fascinating read. Everything from prostitution to guns to drugs to cyber crime to diamonds to people trafficking is covered in a wide ranging examination of the globalised nature of the black market, and its enormous influence on society and politics.

7.The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by: Martin Amis January 31, 2008
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THE SECOND PLANE is made up of 12 essays and two short stories, all exploring the issue of Islamism. To paraphrase Wikipedia, this is the belief that "...Islam is not only a religion but a political system. Its proponents believe that western military, economic, political, social, and cultural influences in the Muslim world are un-Islamic and should be replaced by purely Islamic influences." For Amis, Islamism has these features. But its primary characteristic is violent extremism. The subtitle for this book, September 11: 2001-2007, explains what Amis is up to. In his own words, he is presenting a "narrative of misery, and also of desperate fascination" on the currents flowing into and out of 9/11. What was surprising to me is that his essays don't read like yesterday's news. ... Read More:

8.The Return of History and the End of Dreams by: Robert Kagan May 01, 2008
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The fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union led to many optimistic pronouncements on global politics: we had the peace dividend, the new world order and, in the title of Francis Fukuyama's book alluded to here, the end of history. Maybe the big wake-up call from this reverie came on 11 September 2001, when the world realised that history red in tooth and claw still prowled the earth, but the asymmetric struggles those events represented are not the only ingredients of the dangerous geopolitical brew now cooking, and in this work Robert Kagan sounds a wake up call to the "democracies", summarising the potential perils of, amongst other things, the new-found power of Russia under Putin, of the growing economic clout of China, and the potential ... Read More:

9.Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by: Nick Davies February 07, 2008
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The cover of this book is splattered with quotes saying how important this book is, and they're sort of right. Davies looks with a piercing insiders eye at why the news reported to us -- even from "heavyweight" sources -- is even less dependable than even cynics think. The book clearly shows how commercial factors have all but eliminated any checking of stories, so the media are almost completely at the mercy of PR generated by vested interests. The problem -- and it's a big one -- is that the book risks being tarred with the same brush (because of carelessness, I hope, and not because Davies sources really are poor). Davies repeatedly quotes the figure of only 12% original input from newsrooms, but only once mentions that there's another 8% that's uncertain so the actual figure is somewhere betweeen ... Read More:

10.Worlds at War: The 2,500 - Year Struggle Between East and West by: Anthony Pagden March 13, 2008
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I thoroughly enjoyed Pagden's book. His emphasis on the age-old conflict between east and west may be slightly simplistic at times but, as far as I can see, it rings true. Greeks vs. Persians, Romans vs. Parthians, Latin vs. Greek and so on. Of most interest to me was the part wherer he covers the conflict between Islam and the West. Having recently read Bernard Lewis' excellent book on the same subject, "What went wrong?", what struck me most was the similarities between the main conclusions of Pagden and Lewis. All in all a thought-provoking and entertaining, but also very topical, account. Between them, Lewis and Pagden have caused me to reconsider my view of Islam and its future in modern society.

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