Branko Milanovic

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad

It is a quick read, an excellent book whose main virtue is not, in my opinion, direct analogy with the World War I, but a treatment of how in a multipolar world relatively small international events, misunderstandings, idiosyncratic fits of leaders, “hubris and fear” (as Westad often writes), resentment of the elite and of the public prodded by the media, can produce colossal miscalculations which then produce even more colossal wars and, in the era of the weapons of mass destruction, may end the civilization.

on branko2f7.substack.com · 31 Aug 202612d

Peace and War by Raymond Aron

I am quoting Raymond Aron, who wrote a very important book published in the 1960s called Peace and War

on branko2f7.substack.com · 11 Apr 20265mo

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian

As Quinn Slobodian documents in his excellent book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

on branko2f7.substack.com · 29 Aug 202512mo

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

However, after reading a few pages my original inhibitions were overturned and I bought the book.

on branko2f7.substack.com · 9 Aug 202513mo

Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army Victory that Shaped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman

Perhaps that Goldman makes, at times, too strong a case for the importune of the Nomonhan war, but the conflict surely deserves much more that the oblivion into which it seems to have been consigned by political historians.

on branko2f7.substack.com · 5 Jul 202514mo

The Rebel's Clinic by Adam Shatz

Shatz brings this Plutarch-like exemplary life to the reader with adroitness and skillful attention to detail as well as awareness of Fanon’s uniqueness, both in terms of personality, and places: centers of the new world that he was trying to create.

on branko2f7.substack.com · 3 Jun 202515mo

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 by E. H. Carr

There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39

on branko2f7.substack.com · 5 Dec 202421mo

The social and political thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri

There Avineri draws on his excellent book published in 1968

on branko2f7.substack.com · 20 Jun 20242yr