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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 societies divided by ethnic conflict for decades. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! I allow everyone to use (reupload/clip etc.) my content as long as they @ me in the Description or Title.

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. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! I allow everyone to use (reupload/clip etc.) my content as long as they @ me in the Description or Title.

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 Experimental Social Psychology from Stanford University and has also taught at Cornell and UCSB. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University, and has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of five books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines. She work on a wide variety of different topics. Current projects include a large series of survey experiments examining nine types of attitudes toward gender inequality in over 20 countries. She is participating in several projects related to nuclear weapons, leadership and the stability of deterrence. More broadly, she works on topics including international relations, American Foreign and Defense policy, nuclear strategy, experimentation, leadership, ethics, gender, identity, intelligence, cybersecurity, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! I allow everyone to use (reupload/clip etc.) my content as long as they @ me in the Description or Title.

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 content, psychology, and effects of political information, satire, and misinformation. Her book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laugher in the U.S. examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her new book, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation was published in Oct 2023 with JHU Press. Dr. Young's 2020 TED Talk explaining how our psychology shapes our politics, and how media exploit these relationships, has been viewed over 1.9 Million times. She publishes extensively in the popular press with essays and Op-eds in outlets including Vox.com, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC News, NPR, and various national and international podcasts. As of 2020, her research has been cited in over 70 popular press articles, news stories, and interviews at such outlets as The Washington Post, USA Today, Politico, Christian Science Monitor, Variety, the New York Times, the Atlantic, PBS, Slate, and Vox. Her popular University of Delaware course "Propaganda and Persuasion" was released by The Great Courses in 2023. In recognition of her public facing work, in 2021, Dr. Young became the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Robert M. Entman Award in Democracy and Political Communication from the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 slavery. He is the author of The Blacks of Premodern China, the past editor of the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, and the former concurrent president of its Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies. During successive sabbaticals in 2004 and 2010, he was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his most recent publications are chapter essays in the medieval volumes of both the Cambridge World History of Violence and the Cambridge World History of Slavery as well as in Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900. Articles have recently appeared the Journal of Religion and Violence and in Mediaevalia as well as in Itinerario and China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. His latest books are the Cambridge Element in the Global Middle Ages series, Slavery in East Asia, and the shortly forthcoming, Song China and the World. He is co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, chair of the newly established Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies, and a mentor of early career award recipients for the Luce/ACLS China Studies Mentoring Project. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 prehistory, and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of global inequality. He also pioneered the exploration of the impact of human evolution, population diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

. 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 for International and Public Affairs. His research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 of Law. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Stasavage earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995. He subsequently went to Europe, working successively for the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the Bank of England. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 Senior Advisor for Humanity Forward, and also serves on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and as the editor of Basic Income Today — a daily UBI news hub. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 has served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice. Dr. Abramson has appeared on more than 65 national television shows. He was written op-ed pieces in the New York Times LA Times and others. He is the author of the national best-selling book Overdo$ed America. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 00:00 🌐 Overview of Pharmaceutical Industry 04:54 🌍 Differences in U.S. Healthcare System 11:22 💊 Challenges and Solutions 26:19 🏥 Issues in Prescription Recommendations 27:39 📚Challenges with Evidence-Based Medicine 28:49 💊Issues with Drug Recommendations 29:16 🔄Sociological Impact on Medical Education 31:38 🔄Paradigm Shift and Commercial Influence 34:17 🌐Addressing the Systemic Issue 38:39 🛑 Potential Challenges in Reform 39:08 🤝 Alternative Information Sources 41:49💡 Journal Practices and Financial Interests 44:59 🌍 Science in Service of Humanity 46:19 🎯 Rapid Fire Questions 52:49 💸 Healthcare Investment and Transparency 55:46 💉 Booster Shots and Lack of Information Keywords (please ignore): John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263 The Troubling Story of Vioxx

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 International Service at American University. Additionally he has written several books on foreign policy. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 Reconstruction and Development. He was a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a rector at Moscow's New Economic School (NES) until he resigned on 30 April 2013 and fled to France. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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 and has been an active part of the public debate for the past 25 years. She is currently working on a new book on democracy where she asks the basic question of whether Europe can survive without counter-majoritarian courts to defend human rights as several writers in recent years increasingly claim. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:08: 🌍 rising tribalism 12:37: 📰 Controlling Narratives 24:47: 📈 Reasons for Populism 30:42: 📚 Majoritarian Thinking 36:36: 🗳️ Institutions to protect democracy 42:35: 🔍 manipulating public opinion 48:47: 🗳️ defining democracy 54:45: 🔍 corruption in the EU 1:00:24: 📰 Where to get information from? / News 1:06:53: ⚖️ Rapid Fire Questions

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! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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: 🌍 Energy Basics 6:13: 🔒 Geopolitics/Energy security 12:23: 🔥 1. Phase 18:22: 💡 Nuclear 24:01: 🌍 Anti-Nuclear movement 42:02: 🌍 Nuclear De-Transitioning 47:32: ⚡️ Renewables 59:27: 💡 Rapid Fire Questions

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 Axel Springer Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

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 Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 124 and i10-index of 582) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe.

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: 💼 Ownership structure of stock exchanges 23:12: 📊 Stock exchanges around the world 27:30: 📉 Unfair-Markets 32:13: 💡 Valuating Stock Exchanges 36:48: 💰 Building successful markets 41:52: 📺 problems with finance 47:14: 🔍 Rapid-Fire Questions

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: paulhansbury1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hansbury/ 0:35: 📚 Belarus the last dictatorship in Europe 8:02: ! Lukashenkos Rise 15:44: 🗳️ Fair Elections?! 22:33: 🗳️ Massive Protests 30:33: 🔮 The future of Belarus! 37:54: 🌍 Belarussian allies 45:22: 💼 Economy 52:23: 🗒️ Paul's Research Process 58:59: 🗳️ Rapid Fire Questions

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 Guardian, and other publications. Erica has received the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award, Friends of the River’s California River Award, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award, and was a finalist for the Berlin-based Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Award. She has given keynote talks at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, scientific and water industry conferences, and to government agencies, community organizations, NGOs, and classrooms. Media appearances include CBC’s What on Earth; National Public Radio's Morning Edition; CNN International; and many public radio broadcasts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States.

Buy Michael's Book: Korea at War - https://amzn.to/46L1i8a Michael J Seth is a professor of history at James Madison University where he teaches World and East Asian history. His research has focused mostly, although not exclusively, on Korea. He has lived, worked and travels frequently to the country. Before becoming an academic he spent fourteen years working in developing countries in Africa and Asia and was initially attracted to the study of Korea by trying to understand how South Korea became a successful example of economic, social and political modernization. His published works include: Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (2002), North Korea: A History (2018), A Concise History of Korea (Third Edition, 2020), Korea: A Very Short Introduction (2020), and Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States (2021), Korea at War (2023).

Buy Sam's Book: Iraq Against the World - https://amzn.to/49l9NJ5 Samuel Helfont is an Associate Professor in the Naval War College program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research focuses on international history in the Middle East. https://www.samuelhelfont.com/ Twitter/X: @HelfontSamuel Bluesky: @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Email: [email protected]

Buy Ajay's Book: Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’ - https://amzn.to/3seGMOa Ajay Gudavarthy is a political theorist, analyst and columnist in India. He is an associate professor in political science at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Gudavarthy https://www.outlookindia.com/national/the-current-regime-has-subverted-democratic-and-federal-principles-ajay-gudavarthy-news-315781 https://www.e-ir.info/2021/06/06/interview-ajay-gudavarthy/

Buy Martin's Book: Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War - https://amzn.to/474KUzm Martin Plaut is a journalist and academic specializing in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London.

Bradley Schurman is the author of THE SUPER AGE: DECODING OUR DEMOGRAPHIC DESTINY (Harper Collins) and the founder and CEO of the demographic strategy firm "The Super Age", which helps public and private-sector organizations navigate disruptive population change and improve organizational resilience. Book (The Super Age): https://amzn.to/406Mj5Y The Super Age: https://www.thesuperage.com LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyschurman/ X Profile: @bradleyschurman Keywords (ignore): Tim Ferriss; Peter Zeihan; Valuetainment; Patrick Bet-David; Joe Rogan; Joe Carr; Lex Friedman; Podcast; Geopolitics; Macroeconomics; Investing; World; Global Relations; Public Relations; Demographics; World Order; Jordan Harbinger; Demographic Collapse; Overpopulation