Enrique Krauze and Anders Åslund for PS Book Recommendations

Your weekly reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. The PS Book Recommendations newsletter. [View this message in a web browser.]( [PS Book Recommendations]( Welcome to PS Book Recommendations, your weekly source of reading inspiration. This week’s edition features a recommendation from Enrique Krauze, a historian, essayist, publisher, and the editor of the cultural magazine Letras Libres. We also share a recent work by Anders Åslund, a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. [Happy Holiday De Gruyter Brill]( [Enjoy 30% off on a wide selection of titles]( exclusively from De Gruyter, Brill, and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Use the code DGBHOLIDAY on degruyter.com and brill.com from now until Christmas. Sponsored by De Gruyter Brill Enrique Krauze Recommends... [In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism]( By Michael Brenner Krauze says: "Perhaps because of the troubling state of democracy, I have been studying the fleeting Bavarian Revolution that took place in Munich in 1918-19, which proved to be a harbinger of the fall of the Weimar Republic – rich, dense, and highly politically and culturally significant. Brenner’s book on the topic is a painful but important read today, given the global resurgence of anti-Semitism." "While the world remains a sad spectacle, and the power of reason remains limited, reason remains our best means of understanding the passions and hatreds that are shaping our lives, thereby weakening their hold over us." Read our recent PS Say More interview with Krauze on Baruch Spinoza, the US election, Mexican democracy, and more. [Read the interview](. By a PS Contributor Reform, and EU Accession for Ukraine]( By Anders Åslund and Andrius Kubilius Åslund says: "Ukraine needs, first and foremost, international security, and that will require an invitation to join NATO, substantial financial support, and sufficient weapons. This book is about what Ukraine needs after that: reconstruction, reform, and accession to the European Union. We believe that this is the most important project the EU will undertake in the 2020s, and completing it depend, first, on money: Ukraine needs sufficient support not only to defeat Russia, but also to rebuild its infrastructure and economy. This money should come from Russia itself, with the West effectively claiming reparations from Russia by seizing the $300 billion in Russian central-bank reserves that are currently frozen in Europe and the United States. Moreover, the West should introduce a kind of Marshall Plan for Ukraine – which would support not only its economic recovery, but also the reforms required for EU membership – to be managed by a newly created Ukraine Reconstruction Agency. The details of such a project, and Ukraine's broader reform process, are explored in this book." [Read more from Åslund](. [Subscribe now to access our forthcoming magazine, PS Quarterly: The Year Ahead 2025.]( [Holiday 2024 Reading List]( An editor-curated selection of recent recommendations by PS contributors, including Diane Coyle, James K. Galbraith, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and others. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. Secure exclusive rights to PS content [here](. Interested in advertising opportunities? Email sponsorship@project-syndicate.org. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.