El Estado en la encrucijada

retos y desafíos en la sociedad internacional del siglo XXI

Se trata de un análisis de la importancia de los diferentes actores de la sociedad internacional. En concreto, se estudia con objetividad y en un marco jurídico profundo los grandes problemas y cuestiones que rodean a los Estados, en particular los europeos de nuestro entorno ...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay ...

War by other means

geoeconomics and statecraft

Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America ...

The dynamic Welfare State

The Dynamic Welfare State explains the decline of the classic welfare state and documents the emergence of a third stage in the American welfare state, evident in corporations exploiting markets in healthcare, education, and financial services. Architects of the welfare state envisaged government as the ...

Drones

what everyone needs to know

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such ...

La imaginación socialista

el ciclo histórico de una tradición intelectual

La tradición socialista presenta los rasgos propios de un ciclo histórico cerrado. A lo largo del siglo XIX el socialismo exhibe el perfil de una tradición intelectual en la edad de la fuerza: se conforma un imaginario pletórico, caracterizado por su empuje juvenil, ilusionado, visionario ...

Blanqui y el blanquismo

Samuel Bernstein, el eminente historiador de los movimientos sociales, nos relata los detalles de la vida militante y romántica de Blanqui, modelo de revolucionario y generador de tumultos que cualquier autoridad civil temería en libertad. A pesar de que Blanqui, encerrado en la cárcel la ...

Las encuestas de opinión

Estamos rodeados de datos y de interpretaciones de los mismos, pero ¿debemos conceder el mismo valor a que 8 de cada 10 dentistas recomienden comer chicle después de cada comida que a la tasa de paro del 23,8% según datos de la EPA del ...

Medios democráticos

una revolución pendiente en la comunicación

Una de las revoluciones más significativas que se está dando en los países progresistas de América Latina es la de la comunicación. Mientras los grandes medios se han convertido allí en agentes de intervención política y en algunos casos de desestabilización, los gobiernos de Venezuela ...

La violación de Nanking

el holocausto olvidado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

En diciembre de 1937 tuvo lugar una de las masacres más brutales que se recuerdan en tiempos de guerra. El ejército japonés entró en Nanking, entonces capital de China, y en pocas semanas no sólo saqueó e incendió la antigua ciudad indefensa, sino que sistemáticamente ...

Un plan para Europa

Yanis Varoufakis, exministro de finanzas de Grecia y profesor de economía, y Gerardo Pisarello, teniente de alcalde del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y profesor de derecho constitucional nos proponen en este libro que pensemos otra Europa posible. Afortunadamente no proponen ideas abstractas y bienintencionadas sino que ...

The great departure

mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free" and yet more than a third returned home again ...

Coup d'État

a practical handbook

"Coup d Etat" astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968 because it showed, step by step, how governments could be overthrown. Translated into sixteen languages, it has inspired anti-coup precautions by regimes around the world. In addition to these detailed instructions, Edward Luttwak s ...

Predicting the presidency

the potential of persuasive leadership

Millions of Americans-including many experienced politicians-viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White ...

Suárez por Suárez

Adolfo Suárez, figura y fondo (1977-1982)

Adolfo Suárez fue uno de los grandes protagonistas de la Transición española, quizás la figura que mejor la representa, y el primer presidente del Gobierno elegido democráticamente después del Régimen de Franco. Su figura, los relevantes acontecimientos para la historia reciente de nuestro país de ...

Power and international relations

a conceptual approach

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 30s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars-especially in America. Power and International Relations explores how this changed in later decades ...

The crime of all crimes

toward a criminology of genocide

Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders-from the colonial ...

International negotiation

process and strategies

Negotiation has always been an important alternative to the use of force in managing international disputes. This textbook provides students with the insight and knowledge needed to evaluate how negotiation can produce effective conflict settlement, political change and international policy making. Students are guided through ...

Liberty or death

the French Revolution

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France ...

Politics against domination

Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a ...