https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-Billionaire-Philanthropy-in-World-Politics https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-Billionaire-Philanthropy-in-World-Politics 2021-05-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Peter Hägel International power health foreign policy philanthropy vaccine <p>At a time when billionaires are being targeted by conspiracy theories, what is the actual power of philanthropic billionaires such as Soros in the Georgian Revolution in 2003, or Gates in the global health ecosystem?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Caught-in-a-Bad-Romance-What-America-Means-to-Russia https://booksandideas.net/Caught-in-a-Bad-Romance-What-America-Means-to-Russia 2015-10-15T06:50:20Z text/html en Eliot Borenstein United States of America Russia psychoanalysis sexuality foreign policy Public Books <p>As pundits in the West comment on the rise of “anti-Americanism” in Russia, Americans wonder about the origins of this anti- <span class="caps">US</span> sentiment. In this essay, Eliot Borenstein explains that, against all odds, the hostility towards America comes from a place of love.</p> https://booksandideas.net/American-Elections-The https://booksandideas.net/American-Elections-The 2012-10-22T05:57:45Z text/html en Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz Politics United States of America conservatism elections foreign policy American Elections: The Conservative Temptation <p>Our <i>Books and Ideas</i> dossier on the American presidential elections will make no forecasts - instead it will look back on four years of Democratic leadership at the White House and four years of right-wing radicalization inside and outside of the <span class="caps">G.O.P.</span> Whoever wins will have to deal with the Tea Party, and the record shows it will not be easy for anyone.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Formation-of-a-Leader https://booksandideas.net/The-Formation-of-a-Leader 2012-10-19T07:09:18Z text/html en Marc Aymes & Clélia Delbarre & Erdal Kaynar History Turkey foreign policy biography modernism ideology <p>Can historians create a critical portrait of Mustafa Kemal, the first President of the Turkish Republic? This is no easy task, even with historical distance, because a personality cult and research theories borrowed from Kemalist ideology have had a strong impact on this field of study. Nevertheless, Şükrü Hanioğlu has undertaken to do so.</p>