De España, ni hablar: alarmas separatistas y unión plural

(Revista Claves de Razón Práctica, Nº 230, año 2013)

SUMARIO: POLÍTICA · La primera experiencia federal española. J. Varela Suanzes-Carpegna. · ¿Es un capricho el deseo de secesión?. Jorge Mínguez · Secesionismo académico de salón. M.T. Giménez Barbat / E. Robredo · Las bibliotecas públicas vascas y el independentismo. Pedro J. Chacón Delgado · El 'Affaire' de los papeles ...

Nacionalismo versus colonialismo

problemas en la construcción nacional de Filipinas, India y Vietnam

En este libro se analizan distintos factores que contribuyeron a forjar la nación en Filipinas, India y Vietnam, tres espacios pertenecientes a un mismo ámbito geográfico, pero con culturas, sociedades, modelos políticos y tradiciones muy diferentes. Los tres vivieron experiencias coloniales intensas –aunque muy distintas ...

Crisis of authority

politics, trust, and truth-telling in Freud an Foucault

Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust and truthfulness in contemporary theory and politics. Drawing ...

The modern Middle East

a political history since the First World War

From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava's classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better ...

God's instruments

political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the ...

Eminent victorians on american democracy

the view from Albion

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century. It highlights the views of John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Sir Henry Maine, and James Bryce, who wrote extensively on American government and society. America ...

Causation

a very short introduction

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor ...

Reading HLA Hart's

the concept of Law

More than 50 years after it was first published, The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this volume, written for both students and specialists, 13 leading scholars look afresh at Hart's great book. Unique ...

Out of the cold

the Cold War and its legacy

Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the "iron ...

Vulnerability

reflections on a new ethical foundation for Law and politics

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her 'vulnerability thesis' represents the evolution of ...

Eminent victorians on american democracy

the view from Albion

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century. It highlights the views of John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Sir Henry Maine, and James Bryce, who wrote extensively on American government and society. America ...

Justice as welfare

equity and solidarity

Justice as Welfare provides an egalitarian account of distributive justice by rethinking notions of welfare. It first considers possible forms of decentered welfare to promote communal and individual autonomy rather than the bureaucratic, centralized market-oriented control. Next, it uses theoretical resources to rethink the conventional ...

Shadow nations

tribal sovereignty and the limits of legal pluralism

American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "domestic, dependent nations" within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories. Yet over the years, Congress and the Supreme Court have steadily eroded these tribal powers. In some respects, the ...

OIC, the UN, and counter-terrorism Law-making

conflicting or cooperative legal orders?

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations. This unique, timely, and carefully researched monograph examines one such important yet generally under-researched and ...

Out of the cold

the Cold War and its legacy

Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the "iron ...

No one's world

the west, the rising rest, and the coming global turn

The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence ...

Dicionário de História da I República e do Republicanismo

Volume I: A-E

Adam Smith

The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the ...

The Complete works of Rosa Luxemburg

Vol.1: Economic writings, 1

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg's most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition ...

An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His version of voluntarist natural law theory had a major influence both on the European continent and in the English speaking world, particularly ...