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Globalization and nationalism

the cases of Georgia and the Basque country

This book argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. It acknowledges that nationalism does react ...

From black gold to frozen gas

how Qatar became an energy superpower

Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its large and powerful neighbors. Drawing ...

The worth of art

financial tools for the art market

The market for art can be as eye-catching as artworks themselves. Works by artists from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Picasso and Modigliani have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. The world's ultrawealthy increasingly treat art as part of their portfolios. Since artworks ...

The golden passport

global mobility for millionaires

The first comprehensive on-the-ground investigation of the global market for citizenship, examining the wealthy elites who buy passports, the states and brokers who sell them, and the normalization of a once shadowy practice. Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country ...

Of law and the world

critical conversations on power, history, and political economy

A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law's power in global life? What does all this legality have to do ...

From zero to millionaire

a simple, effective and stress-free way to invest in the stock market

"Investing is a simple activity, which an entire industry strives to make complicated to justify its existence." At a time when a record number of people are investing in the stock market, this book by award-winning financial writer Nicolas Bérubé reveals how any investor can ...

Unknown market wizards

the best traders you've never heard of

REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION WITH NEW MATERIAL IN EVERY CHAPTER Jack D. Schwager has returned to the traders to ask them how they navigated the unprecedented markets of 2020-2022, including the pandemic bear market, an abrupt reversal to new highs, rising inflation, and the emergence of ...

Oil and the political economy in the Middle East

post-2014 adjustment policies of the Arab gulf and beyond

The downhill slide in the global price of crude oil in 2014 had major repercussions across the Middle East. Following the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, the oil price decline represented a second major shock for the region in the early twenty-first century - one ...

United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory

United Nations peace operations have undergone multiple transformations over the more than seventy years of their existence. Multidimensional peace operations have organised elections, helped deliver humanitarian assistance, advised on army and police reform, and fought rebel groups. Such operations not only represent a core pillar ...

Precision

A History of American Warfare

We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history. As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve precision in war began in ...

Critical theory and human rights

from compassion to coercion

This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving ...

Ley de vagos y maleantes

Texto íntegro

La Ley de Vagos y Maleantes, fue una ley de Orden Penal español aprobada el 4 de agosto de 1933 por las Cortes de la Segunda República referente al tratamiento de vagabundos, nómadas, proxenetas y otros comportamientos considerados antisociales. Conocida popularmente como 'La Gandula', la ...

Adolescencia, Redes Sociales y violencia de género digital

Esta obra colectiva pretende dar respuesta a uno de los principales desafíos de la sociedad digital: la detección y prevención de la violencia de género en la adolescencia a través de las redes sociales. Para ello reúne aportaciones de investigadoras de áreas de conocimiento diversas ...

Guía del Teletrabajo

PRESENTACIÓN Os presento el último número de las Guías elaboradas por el Servicio de Estudios de la Confederación. En esta ocasión, se aborda el teletrabajo, partiendo, como piedra angular, del análisis de uno de los frutos más relevantes del Diálogo Social, es decir, de la ...

Doctrina de los Consejos Consultivos de España

(año 2022)

La obra que el lector tiene en sus manos es más que un mero repertorio, más que una suma de dictámenes, más que un anuario que pretenda agotar la razón de ser de su existencia en una dación de cuentas de la función consultiva que ...

How to stay smart in a smart world

why human intelligence still beats algorithms

From dating apps and self-driving cars to facial recognition and the justice system, the increasing presence of AI has been widely championed - but there are limitations and risks too. In this book Gigerenzer shows how humans are often the greatest source of uncertainty and when ...

Lobbying the autocrat

the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocracies

Although authoritarian countries often repress independent citizen activity, lobbying by civil society organizations is actually a widespread phenomenon. Using case studies such as China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, Lobbying the Autocrat shows that citizen advocacy organizations carve out niches in the ...

Quantum governance

rewiring the foundation of public policy

Old systems of governance are struggling to cope with the pressures placed on them by the accelerating development of modern society. There is a desperate need for change. Quantum Governance offers a new way of thinking about policy implementation and has profound ramifications for policymakers ...

Tres cartas sobre la Revolución Francesa

Edmund Burke nació en Dublín el 12 de enero de 1729 y estudió en Trinity College Dublin (Irlanda) y en Middle Temple (Inglaterra). Murió en Beaconsfield, el 9 de julio de 1797. Entre sus primeras obras literarias destacan A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of ...

Fondos Next Generation. Retos y desafíos. Especial referencia a la gobernanza multinivel territorial

European Inklings (EUi), Nº 25, año 2023