Vigilància permanent — Edward Snowden
L’any 2013, Edward Snowden, responsable de la filtració d’intel·ligència més gran de la història, va sacsejar el món revelant que el govern dels Estats Units tenia la capacitat de llegir cada correu electrònic, escoltar cada trucada i entrar fins als racons més secrets de la vida privada de tots els ciutadans del món. De l’editor . . .
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict — Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent . . .
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on . . .