Cómo Internet está matando la democracia

¿Qué mueve a las sociedades democráticas a alejarse de los principios e instituciones que las fundamentan? ¿No es acaso la democracia el destino de Occidente? Mauro Barberis nos advierte cómo la democracia —aquella liberal, constitucional y pluralista— se ve amenazada por aquel virus latente en ...

Política de cooperación internacional para el desarrollo

"La cooperación para el desarrollo es una parte importante de las relaciones internacionales, en sus dimensiones teórica y práctica. El objetivo de este libro es analizar su papel en la escena internacional, partiendo de sus orígenes y su evolución, además de sus claves interpretativas. Con ...

The politics of everybody

feminism, queer theory, and Marxism at the intersection

The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories; and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer ...

The vote

how it was won and how it was undermined

The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. Foot takes readers from the smoke-filled church of the ...

Why we vote

In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the Constitution is a commitment to democracy, and that over the ...

El andalucismo hoy

dimensiones políticas, cultural, económico-social y feminista

El andalucismo hoy explora y analiza la relevancia actual del andalucismo. Coordinado por Isidoro Moreno y con la colaboración de destacados investigadores -que son también actores en diversos ámbitos andalucistas- este libro incluye doce capítulos que ofrecen un panorama de las manifestaciones en nuestros días ...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps

defining Iran's military doctrine

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran ...

Using force to protect civilians

successes and failures of United Nations peace operations in Africa

Using Force to Protect Civilians offers the first comprehensive analysis of United Nations military protection operations across time and UN missions, drawing on a novel dataset that covers 200 operations from ten UN peacekeeping missions in Africa from 1999 to 2017. Employing a mixed-methods research ...

Hydrocarbon citizens

how oil transformed people and politics in the Middle East

Many nations that are rich in oil and natural resources are plagued by undemocratic politics, war and civil conflict, corrupt governments, and volatile economies. Scholars have pointed to a "resource curse" as a root of the problem: the notion that valuable natural resources are connected ...

The automatic fetish

the law of value in Marx's capital

he Automatic Fetish traces Marx's analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central through line of the entire work, Beverley Best elaborates a theory of movement through ...

Happy apocalypse

a history of technological risk

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for ...

The wannabe fascists

a guide to understanding the greatest threat to democracyhreat to Democracy

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political ...

Demos assembled

democracy and the international origins of the modern state, 1840-1880

An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century ...

Learning from the enemy

an intellectual history of Antifascism in interwar Europe

When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libert�, founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929, is one intriguing historical example. Operating both in exile and as part of a clandestine ...

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Capitalism created the climate crisis and capitalism will solve it

the market forces catalyzing a climate technology renaissance

Creative and practical free-market solutions to climate change In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change ...

Energy revolutions

profiteering versus democracy

'A vision of how, in the renewable era, shared ownership of energy could lead to a future of equality and economic security' - Molly Scott Cato This book exposes the energy crisis as an inevitable result of an industry run by and for corporate profit. Energy ...

The postmodern predicament

existential challenges of the twenty-first century

One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking-and liberating-perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The ...

Society despite the state

reimagining geographies of order

The logic of the state has come to define social and spatial relations, embedding itself into our understandings of the world and our place in it. Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre challenge this logic as the central pivot around which knowledge and ...

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say ...