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 ...

Marx

Una aproximación

Este libro ofrece una guía necesaria para entender por qué Marx no está muerto y por qué el muro de Berlín no cayó, sino que se reconstruyó de otro modo: porque Marx no es un pensador económico, es un filósofo, un crítico de la religión ...

Sobre el imperio de la ley

'El imperio de la ley es la única alternativa al imperio de la fuerza. Sólo bajo el gobierno de las leyes, el ser humano puede vivir en libertad y en paz. Si no nos sometemos al Derecho, la ley del más fuerte, las fauces del ...

La opinión pública digital

Retos éticos y políticos

El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías ha impactado de un modo determinante sobre la opinión pública. Sin embargo, la bibliografía académica ha dado un curioso giro en el análisis de esa conexión entre nuevas tecnologías y opinión pública. Frente al tecnooptimismo imperante desde finales del ...

Fragilidad de la democracia

Este ensayo se inicia con una reflexión sobre los límites estructurales y funcionales de la Democracia, sobre las claves del Estado de Derecho, y la tendencia de los partidos políticos a eludirlos con la finalidad de acceder y luego ampliar su poder y permanecer en ...

Dream states

a lurking nightmare for world order

Around the world, numerous communities seek the protections of sovereignty--a "dream state" of their own--to preserve their traditional way of life. However, these secessionist movements create risk of prolonged conflict in countries of every size and location, from tiny statelets in the Caribbean or Pacific ...

Political conflict in Pakistan

Political conflict is endemic to a postcolonial state such as Pakistan. Reformulation of the political system after independence draws on a gradual encroachment of tradition defined in terms of identity and ideology over modernity represented by institutional design and citizen orientations. Partition led to structural ...

Constitutional ambiguity and the interpretation of presidential power

Examines the role of constitutional ambiguity across the entire spectrum of American history and how it impacts our interpretation of presidential power. While the rise of autocratic presidential powers has been widely noted by scholars in recent years, with calls by some for a stronger ...

Japón en 100 preguntas

¿Un modelo en decadencia?

¿Sigue siendo Japón una potencia innovadora? ¿Sus tradiciones frenan su desarrollo social? ¿Su relación con China está condenada al conflicto? ¿Puede ser un actor importante en el escenario internacional? ¿Son sólidas sus relaciones con Estados Unidos? Tras dominar el panorama económico mundial a finales del ...

People v. the court

the next revolution in constitutional law

The Constitution divides power between the government and We the People. It grants We the People an affirmative, collective right to exercise control over the government through our elected representatives. The Supreme Court has abused its power of judicial review and subverted popular control of ...

SIPRI Yearbook 2025

armaments, disarmament and international security

The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, weapons and technology, and armed conflict and conflict management, along with ...