Control civil y pretorianismo en Venezuela

Ilusiones y realidades históricas

La Constitución traicionada

de la imagen de la Transición a la embestida secesionista

En su nuevo libro, el político barcelonés analiza las claves que han permitido que el nacionalismo imponga sus tesis en La Moncloa, acusando al actual partido en el poder de estar pagando sus pactos electorales al famoso tripartito catalán que le dio la llave del ...

Development on the periphery

democratic transitions in southern and eastern Europe

In "Development on the Periphery", noted textbook author Howard J.Wiarda tackles the important question of development in Southern and Eastern Europe. Both areas have undergone impressive transitions to democracy, experienced vast social changes, embraced open markets, developed Western political party systems, and joined the ...

Nations in transit 2005

democratization from central Europe to Eurasia

"Nations in Transit 2005" measures progress and setbacks in democratization in 27 countries from Central Europe to the Eurasian region of the Former Soviet Union. A report on Kosovo appears as an addendum to the Serbia and Montenegro report. This volume, which covers events from ...

Una conspiración fallida y una Constitución nonnata (1819)

La revolución pendiente

el cambio político en el África negra

Desde hace más de un siglo, el África negra ha sido un campo de experimentación de los diseñadores sociales, primero de las metrópolis coloniales y, después, de los países desarrollados. Sin embargo, el continente vecino ha mostrado una espectacular resistencia a adoptar los modelos ajenos ...

500 preguntas al nacionalismo español

Desde la entrada en vigor de la Constitución, nunca la unidad de España había estado tan en entredicho. ¿Son por definición desleales al Estado los nacionalistas periféricos? ¿Aciertan en su estrategia los que dicen actuar en defensa de las esencias de España? En este libro ...

Patterns of regionalism and federalism

lessons for the UK

Federalism remains a highly contentious issue in the United Kingdom, but however suspect the 'F' word may be, a substantial amount of devolution has already become part of the local landscape and more may yet follow. With the competence for a number of policies thus ...

Cataluña y la España plural

discursos políticos del siglo XX

La memoria histórica es una herramienta imprescindible para comprender el presente y situar las discusiones actuales en una perspectiva adecuada. Los discursos y alocuciones reunidos en este libro, pronunciados por destacados personajes de la política y la cultura en diferentes y decisivos momentos históricos, desde ...

Nacionalismo y política lingüística

el caso de Cataluña

Cultura y nacionalismo

José Garnelo y la Academia en 1894

Indice: Introducción. El contexto cultural de una empresa artística. Los avatares de un proyecto. Los personajes de la cultura nacional.

Nations and nationalism

Ernest Gellner's "Nations and Nationalism" (1983) provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity. For this new ...

Identidades proscritas

el no nacionalismo en las sociedades nacionales

Identidades proscritas analiza el no nacionalismo, es decir, las tradiciones alternativas al nacionalismo en sociedades decididamente nacionalistas. Plantea, pues, una tesis sugestiva y polémica: que en las sociedades nacionalistas han existido siempre sentimientos de identidad no nacionalistas tan fuertes como el nacionalismo, y a veces ...

Nationalism and the mind

essays on modern culture

Professor Liah Greenfeld is one of the world's leading academics in the study of nationalism. Author of the influential books, "Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity" and "The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth", Greenfeld's ideas are both challenging and inspiring. In this ...

Negotiating nationalism

nation-building, federalism, and secession in the multinational State

There are at least three times as many nations as states in the world today. This book addresses some of the special challenges that arise when two or more national communities share the same (multinational) state. As a work in normative political philosophy, its principal ...

The endurance of nationalism

ancient roots and modern dilemmas

Aviel Roshwald directly challenges prevalent scholarly orthodoxies about the exclusively modern character of nationalism. He argues that nationalism's enduring power to shape the world we live in arises directly out of its position at the heart of inescapable social and political paradoxes that are ...

Comparative federalism

the European Union and the United States in comparative perspective

The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years ...

Sistemas federales comparados

La traducción al castellano de esta segunda edición actualizada dela obra de Ronald Watts, ofrece un claro análisis del diseño y funcionamiento de una serie de federaciones elegidas por su relevancia desde la perspectiva canadiense. El punto de partida es la constatación de la experiencia ...

Nationalism and ethnosymbolism

history, culture and ethnicity in the formation of nations

Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations. This book explores the different aspects ...

Parallel paths

the development of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec

In an innovative survey Garth Stevenson contrasts Irish and Quebec nationalism, from British conquest to the present-day struggles for unity in Ireland and sovereignty in Quebec. Predominantly Catholic societies subjected to British conquest and partial colonization, Ireland and Quebec rebelled unsuccessfully and entered the modern ...