Politics in Minutes (2016)
The evolution of politics
Government and leadership
Hierarchies
The Greeks and the city-state
Plato: Republic
Aristotle: Politics
Civil society
Human nature
Representation
Authority and legitimacy; power and accountability
Sovereignty
The role of religion
Political ideologies: left and right
Political ideologies: the political spectrum
Political concepts
Ancient Greek ideas of justice and liberty
Feudalism
Humanism and the rise of the nation state
Machiavelli and political realism
Enlightenment
Concept of liberty
Positive and negative freedom
Concept of justice
Equality: of outcome or opportunity?
The social contract
Political authority
Rights: civil and natural
Influencing politics
Freedom of speech
The right to protest
Peaceful protest and civil disobedience
Violent direct action
Revolution
Structures and institutions
Government by the few
Government by the people
Bureaucracy
Non-governmental organizations
Economic policy and taxation
Welfare and social policy
Constitutions and bills of rights
Laws and legislation
Law and order
Defence and foreign policy
Armed forces and intelligence services
Local and regional government
Decentralization and devolution
Federalism
Supranational institutions
Democracy and democratic institutions
Of, by and for the people
Suffrage
Elections and representation
Political parties
Electoral systems
Republic
Presidential government
Bicameral systems
Cabinet
Separation of powers
Conservatism
Tradition
A ruling class, the right to rule
Entitlement and property
Authoritarian conservatism
Paternalistic conservatism
One-nation conservatism
Christian democracy
Liberal and libertarian conservatism
The New Right
Liberalism
The individual
Natural rights
Utilitarianism
British liberalism
The harm principle
Toleration
US liberalism
Small government
Constitutionalism
Liberal democracy
Social Darwinism
Social liberalism
The ‘invisible hand’
Economic liberalism
Neoliberalism
Privatization
Socialism and communism
Equalityt
Rousseau: the general will
18th- and 19th-century revolutions
Utopian socialism
Social liberalism
Community, cooperation and common ownership
Marx: philosophy, history
Marx: economics, analysis of capitalism
Class struggle
Marx: politics and the inevitability of socialism
Neo-Marxism
The New Left
State ownership and nationalization
Central economic planning
Revolutionary socialism
Revisionism
Reformism, or evolutionary socialism
Communism
Libertarian socialism
Trades unions and the labour movement
Social democracy
The ‘Third Way’
Communitarianism
Anarchism
Anti-statism
Utopianism
Individualist anarchism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Collectivist anarchism
Anarcho-communism
Libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism
Anarchist revolution
Totalitarianism
Tyranny and police states
Dictatorship
One-party state
Fascism
Nazism
Communist totalitarianism
Religious totalitarianism
Coup d’état
Military juntas
Nation, race and religion
Nationalism
Patriotism
Ethnic nationalism
Civic nationalism
Expansionist nationalism
Imperialism and colonialism
Slavery
Anti-colonial and post-colonial nationalism
Independence and self-determination
Race and politics
Civil rights movement
Positive discrimination
Multiculturalism
Migration
Zionism
The role of religion
The laws of God and the laws of Man>
The divine right to rule
State religion
Secular states
Theocracy
Islam and sharia law
Religious fundamentalism
Anti-modernism
The Christian right
Islamic fundamentalism
Gender politics
Patriarchy
Feminism
The rights of women
The fight for the vote
Equality and difference
An unequal world
Women in power
Second- and third-wave feminism
Sex and gender
Sexuality and politics
Ecology
Feminism
Pollution, climate change and global warming
Sustainability and resources
Ecology vs development
Other eco-movements
Deep ecology
International politics
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Defence and national security
Expansionism
Alliances and neutrality
Just war theory
Pacifism and anti-war movements
Globalization
Transnational corporations
Anti-globalization
International law
International institutions
World government
The future
The future of the right
The power elite
The future of the left
Power to the people
A shrinking world
Religion in 21st-century politics
Brave New World
The ultimate challenge?