De ziekte van Europa' is het genadeloze relaas over een eens zo ambitieus Europees project dat aftakelde tot een institutionele modderpoel. Het boek is rijkelijk voorzien van politieke anekdotiek en persoonlijke verhalen die de lezer meenemen achter de schermen van de Europese macht. Europa waant zichzelf nog steeds het morele centrum van de wereld terwijl de Middellandse Zee uitgroeit tot een migrantenkerkhof en we er maar niet in slagen de economische crisis te overwinnen. De wereld kijkt ons meewarig aan: 'Europa, dat is kleingeestigheid in achtentwintig verschillende schakeringen," schamperde The New York Times. Guy Verhofstadt ziet een oplossing in een grote sprong voorwaarts in de Europese integratie. Die hoeft niet te resulteren in de creatie van een superstaat, maar wel in een efficiënter en democratischer Europa. Hij grijpt terug op de wijze woorden van de 'founding fathers' hij diept de vergeten Europese grondwet van 1952 op en geeft haar een opknapbeurt.

Over de Soviet Unie in de tijd van Gorbachev. In Amsterdam uitgegeven.

Describes the life of the English American author and journalist who was a prominent public intellectual who wrote about his theophobia and how he was equally fascinated and repulsed by both the Left and the Right as revolutionary forces. Original. 15,000 first printing.

An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character

"The Women's Cause is One"--a slogan from a 1919 lobbying pamphlet in support of women's trade unionism--sums up the crusading spirit of this exciting period in women's history. This book shows how the women's movement, through its network of organization and its powerful and widespread campaigning, was transformed and developed into a formidable fighting force. It continued its assault on entrenched positions to secure women's full and equal participation in society--in politics, commerce, industry and the professions, education, welfare, politics and for franchise extension. This study confounds the myth of the movement's post-war decline.

A story of oil and gas, corruption and naked power, this book traces the rise of the Russian oil economy from its origins in the nineteenth century right through to Vladimir Putin's determined efforts to rein in the oil oligarchs, re-nationalize Russia's industries, and pay off its international debt

International Comparative Studies Volume II. ISSN 1568-4474.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210. Twenty two days later, he was dead. And the mystery behind his murder would be revealed as more baffling and more labyrinthine than any John Le Carré plot. Litvinenko had sought asylum in London and from there had become a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin's government. His is the most high profile of a string of mysterious deaths of a number of Russian dissenters, which heralds a new era of KGB-style authoritarianism and terror. It quickly became known as one of the most mysterious and audacious crimes of the post-Cold War era, and triggered an international investigation led by London's top counterterrorism officials. Blending the pace of a thriller with original reportage and research,The Terminal Spydocuments Litvinenko's life and death, the ensuing police investigation, the reaction from Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow, the Russian émigré set in London, and the implications of this case for nuclear proliferation and international terrorism in the future. It is a shocking endictment of how contemptuous of the rule of law certain governments are and an chilling reminder of the power - in every respect - of the New Russia.