Juicio político

el caso brasileño y otros ensayos

Los estudios de los profesores Juarez Tavares y Geraldo Prado, dos de los mayores intelectuales brasileños de la actualidad, presentados en esta oportunidad al público, surgen para romper con, parafraseando a Kant, el ?sueño dogmático? de las ciencias penales. En los ensayos de este libro ...

Toward democracy

the struggle for self-rule in european and american thought

The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Toward Democracy, James T. Kloppenberg explores this story of ideas, focusing on the evolution of democracy in Britain's North ...

Toward democracy

the struggle for self-rule in european and american thought

The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Toward Democracy, James T. Kloppenberg explores this story of ideas, focusing on the evolution of democracy in Britain's North ...

Europa

entre la incertidumbre y la esperanza

La crisis global de nuestro tiempo empaña los principios más nobles que han instituido la integración de Europa, es decir, aquella que ha garantizado a sus países miembros una elevada cota de paz y bienestar desde la segunda posguerra mundial. Y las consecuencias de ello ...

La accesibilidad universal y su gestión como elementos imprescindibles para el ejercicio de los Derechos Fundamentales

La accesibilidad, como requisito para que todas las personas puedan utilizar los espacios, equipamientos y servicios en igualdad de oportunidades, es un concepto comúnmente aceptado pero no siempre adecuadamente gestionado. De hecho, a pesar de los desarrollos normativos sobre la materia, con la Convención Internacional ...

Political institutions and party-directed corruption in South America

stealing for the team

An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how the structure of ...

Political institutions and party-directed corruption in South America

stealing for the team

An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how the structure of ...

La sumisión de las masas

Ensayo breve que repasa la historia con el nacimiento y evolución de la burguesía y su proletariado y termina en la realidad política de hoy en España.

¡Fronteras!

estados, naciones e identidades

¡Fronteras! es un recorrido por los laberintos de la identidad social e individual que se adentra en el significado actual de términos como «nación» o «estado». De la inevitabilidad de Europa a los nacionalismos postconstitucionales; de la emoción del paisaje a la economía y la ...

Politics and time

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge these key ...

Revista Viento Sur, Nº 146, año 2016

VIENTO SUR está comprometida en la lucha contra el capitalismo y es solidaria con todas las personas y organizaciones que participan en ella. En sus páginas se encuentran informes, opiniones y debates de diferentes corrientes de la izquierda alternativa y de los movimientos sociales.

El manantial

escritos reformadores

La obra de Henry David Thoreau suele dividirse en dos grandes categorías implícitas en «Walden»: la de los escritos de la naturaleza o «lo salvaje», que representan el documento de partida de la moderna ecología, y la de los textos políticos que, alrededor del ensayo ...

Conversación con Alberto Garzón

Este libro de conversaciones que el lector tiene entre manos abarca la coyuntura política que va desde el 20 de diciembre hasta la convocatoria de nuevas elecciones, pero va mucho más allá del análisis descriptivo. Las más de veinte horas de conversación que he mantenido ...

Should rich nations help the poor?

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs. But should rich nations continue ...

China's governance model

flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism

Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciate the surprising ability of China's government ...

China's evolving military strategy

Roughly once every generation, a powerful, highly influential organization within the Chinese People's Liberation Army releases a new edition of the Science of Military Strategy (SMS), a comprehensive and authoritative study which details the strategic approach that the Chinese military will take in the ...

Borderlands

towards an anthropology of the cosmopolitan condition

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we ...

La crisi dell'utopia

Aristofane contro Platone

"Nel corso delle feste Scire, un gruppo di donne, capeggiate da una di loro, Prassagora, particolarmente dotata di carisma e capace di pilotare un gruppo bene organizzato e proteso all'azione politico-assembleare, ha deciso di partecipare ai lavori dell'assemblea popolare. Naturalmente in quanto donne ...

Stato e avanguardie cosmopolitiche

Gli autori che si rifanno al cosmopolitismo iniziano la riflessione da una visione ideale di come le leggi dovrebbero essere, ma omettono di considerare gli individui come essi sono; per contro, gli autori statisti perlopiù partono da un’analisi realistica della società ma tralasciano di ...

In defence of Europe

can the european project be saved?

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets ...