En las prisiones de lo posible

'En las prisiones de lo posible es otro tipo de apuesta: utilizar la filosofía para hacer saltar una paradoja. La paradoja ya anunciaba la tragedia irresoluble que nos ha traído hasta aquí: la de un mundo en el que todo era posible, menos transformarlo'. Las ...

Dios, armas y sedición

Terrorismo de extrema derecha en Estados Unidos

En los últimos años se han producido brutales actos terroristas cometidos por violentos fanáticos estadounidenses de extrema derecha, como el asesinato en masa de 2015 en una histórica iglesia afroamericana de Charleston o el ataque del 6 de enero de 2021 al Capitolio de Estados ...

Juan Donoso Cortés

Louis Veuillot nació en 1813 en Boynes (Loiret), en el Gatinés. Hijo de un tonelero, abandonó la escuela con trece años. Pronto se fue a París, donde trabajó para un abogado y entró en contacto con un ambiente de literatos. Autodidacta, dedicó su tiempo libre ...

Circle of stars

a history of the EU and the people who made it

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it-from Maastricht to today The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of ...

The Great Transformation

China's road from revolution to reform

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "A superb history of China's transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Chen and Westad-two of the best archival historians of Communist China writing today-coolly but vividly recount the ...

How States Die

Membership and Survival in the International System

When states die, there are massive consequences for neighboring states and sometimes for the entire international system. Somalia's death in 1991 created a safe haven for criminal non-state actors and has unsettled the Horn of Africa for decades. When the Iraqi state was dismantled ...

Unfrozen

the fight for the future of the Arctic

A vital account of the state of the Arctic today-emphasising the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is declining rapidly, wildfires are burning ...

The great reversal

Britain, China and the 400-year contest for power

A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British ...

Coercing Syria on chemical weapons

a case study of deterrence and coercive diplomacy

In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that Syrian government usage of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would require the US government to reconsider its approach to the civil war then underway in Syria. Syria subsequently used such weapons ...

Siria en perspectiva

De una crisis internacionalmente mediatizada a la reestructuración del Estado

Esta nueva edición de Siria en perspectiva incluye y analiza todos los acontecimientos que desde finales de 2024 están impulsando un complejo cambio de régimen estatal en la República Árabe Siria. Modificaciones que van del cambio de su bandera y escudo a la legislación y ...

Lessons from the new Cold War

America confronts the China challenge

How the US-China rivalry is reshaping global power, democracy, and the international order. A new cold war is unfolding-one that will define the future of the international order. In Lessons from the New Cold War, editor Hal Brands assembles an all-star cast of the most ...

Comunismo de los espíritus

Hacia 1794, el poeta alemán Friedrich Hölderlin fue el primero en acuñar, en un sentido específicamente moderno, el vocablo 'comunismo' (Communismus). Lo hace en un breve, desconocido e ignorado texto –titulado precisamente Comunismo de los espíritus– donde el poeta, quizá el más grande de todos ...

Return of tyranny

why counterrevolutions emerge and succeed

Why do some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, whereas others go on to establish durable rule? Marshalling original data on counterrevolutions worldwide since 1900 and new evidence from the reversal of Egypt's 2011 revolution, Killian Clarke explains both why counterrevolutions emerge and when ...

Nationalism and the transformation of the state

border change and political violence in the modern world

Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, the recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East signals the return of geopolitics. This book challenges conventional approaches that ignore border change, arguing that geopolitics is driven by nationalism and focusing on how nationalism transforms the ...

Anatomía de un instante

23-F, el libro definitivo

EL CLÁSICO DE JAVIER CERCAS QUE INSPIRÓ LA ADAPTACIÓN DE MOVISTAR+. Un relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza leyéndose como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror. 'Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en ...

Can Europe survive?

the story of a continent in a fractured world

A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarised world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember ...

Slow poison

Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the making of the Ugandan State

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the ...

Distant friends and intimate enemies

a history of American-Russian relations

This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to ...

La historia olvidada del liberalismo

desde la antigua Roma hasta el siglo XXI

La historia olvidada del liberalismo desafía nuestras suposiciones más básicas sobre un credo político que se ha convertido, a la vez, en un grito de guerra y un término despectivo del debate político. Helena Rosenblatt traza la evolución de las palabras «liberal» y «liberalismo» desde ...

Political neoliberalism

order and rupture

In recent years, the concept of neoliberalism has been discarded as shrill and overspent. In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke argues that it is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phenomena--those pertaining to the order and governing of advanced Western ...