Beyond the water's edge

how partisanship corrupts U.S. foreign policy

Intense partisanship is a familiar part of the contemporary United States, but its consequences do not stop at the country's borders. The damage now extends to U.S. relations with the rest of the world. Too often, political leaders place their own party's ...

Autodestrucción woke

Auge y declive de los cultos posmodernos

¿Cómo hemos llegado a someternos, en una sociedad que se proclama racional y científica, a un pensamiento único disfrazado de virtud? Este libro no busca complacer ni incendiar, más bien comprender. Desde una mirada crítica -pero no cínica-, la autora desentraña los engranajes del paradigma ...

How progress ends

technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief ...

Sobre el capital natural

El valor del mundo que habitamos

Desde que existen, nuestros modelos económicos nos han ofrecido tan solo una visión incompleta de la realidad. Nos dicen que nuestras economías van bien porque están creciendo. Sin embargo, no tienen en cuenta que ese crecimiento descansa sobre un recurso que tomamos gratis y tratamos ...

The backsliders

why leaders undermine their own democracies

Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it Democracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their ...

The tech coup

how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and ...

Democracy, liberty, and judicial review

Contemporary democratic theory often posits that the will of the majority should resolve fundamental questions regarding rights, rather than the courts. However, this perspective misunderstands the essence of democracy, where the protection of basic liberties by the judiciary is, in fact, integral to democratic governance ...

The tech-media hybrid

Google's news ambition

Google is typically thought of as a tech giant and the world's largest search engine, but it was also among the first tech companies to invest in news. After 9/11, the company recognized the economic and social value of up-to-the-minute information and began ...

Dictating reality

the global battle to control news

From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a check on power or a source of objective information but a means by which governments and leaders ...

Informe sobre el proyecto de Intendencias en Nueva España

El “informe de Francisco Leandro de Viana, oidor de la Audiencia de México, donde Tepa desde 1775, fue redactado en 1773 a demanda del virrey de Nueva España. Constituye una crítica pormenorizada del proyecto de intendencias novohispanas forjado por el visitador general Gálvez en 1768 ...

A pie de calle

Discursos y prácticas de los movimientos sociales durante la transición a la democracia en España (1975-1982)

La obra se sitúa en el debate historiográfico, todavía vigente, sobre el proceso de transición a la democracia en España a partir de privilegiar la atención sobre los movimientos sociales que, desde la década de los sesenta, condicionaron la agenda política, social y económica de ...

Las periferias mudas

Anatomía de un centralismo que debilita a España y la fragilidad de las élites territoriales

La España contemporánea ha cristalizado en un modelo en el que un centro hegemónico, representado en la "idea de Madrid", concentra el poder político, económico, simbólico y mediático, mientras las periferias permanecen mudas, en un eterno segundo plano. No se trata de una coyuntura pasajera ...

Cuatro fronteras

Una reinterpretación de la geopolítica europea a través de cuatro puntos clave

Cuatro fronteras nos propone un recorrido geopolítico, histórico y humano por los orígenes de la Europa actual. A través de cuatro fronteras emblemáticas —los Pirineos, los Balcanes, el Danubio y los Alpes—, Sergi Lara explora cómo la geografía ha moldeado el destino de los pueblos ...

Scandal

why politicians survive controversy in a partisan era

Once, it was thought, a scandal was the kiss of death for a political career. Today, however, surviving scandal seems to be the norm. Donald Trump has weathered-and even perhaps benefited from-controversies that would have been unimaginable for virtually any other candidate. Prominent figures in ...

Securing peace in Europe

Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia after the Cold War

After the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies faced crucial questions. Could Russia, their old adversary, be integrated into the liberal international order? What roles should former Soviet republics and satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe play in the Euro-Atlantic security ...

Cuando el mundo duerme

Historias, palabras y heridas de Palestina

Si hay una voz lúcida, crítica, implacable, en contra de las políticas de apartheid que Israel ha aplicado a los palestinos en la Franja de Gaza y Cisjordania, si hay una voz que se ha oído y se oye en el mundo entero cuando se ...

Una amistad condenada

La conquista de Europa por los Estados Unidos. Primera etapa: De la Primera a la Segunda Guerra Mundial

El ascenso del capitalismo estadounidense se presentó al mundo bajo la bandera de la libertad, la democracia y la prosperidad. No obstante, las prácticas del 'América first', que incluían genocidios, explotación laboral y saqueo bélico de bienes ajenos, no desaparecieron, sino que fueron modernizadas. La ...

Beyond the water's edge

how partisanship corrupts U.S. foreign policy

Intense partisanship is a familiar part of the contemporary United States, but its consequences do not stop at the country's borders. The damage now extends to U.S. relations with the rest of the world. Too often, political leaders place their own party's ...

Vulgar Marxism

revolutionary politics and the dilemmas of worker education, 1891-1931

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, "vulgar Marxism" has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could ...

Revolution

modern uprisings in ancient time

A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in ...