Key concepts in political geography

Auts., Carolyn Gallaher...[et al.] Offers an introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in the field. This book offers an introductory chapter providing an overview of the developments in the field of political geography. It gives over 20 concept entries covering staples ...

Geopolítica y gobierno del territorio en España

Durante los últimos años muchos países de la Unión Europea han demostrado una clara intención de incorporar nuevas formas de gobierno del territorio, de gobernanza territorial y de gestión del paisaje. Pero si se analiza la experiencia española, esta transición hacia una nueva cultura del ...

China en África

Pekín a la conquista del continente africano

Fotografías de Paolo Wood. Entre 1980 y 2005 el comercio bilateral entre China y África se multiplicó por cincuenta y en 2006 había 900 empresas chinas operando en territorio africano. Dos prestigiosos periodistas franceses, Serge Michel y Michel Beuret, ofrecen una reveladora visión de lo ...

The roots of war in the 21st century

geography, hegemony, and politics in Asia-Pacific

This book argues that the 21st century will witness a fundamental global shift in economic and military hegemonic power from the U.S.- European sphere to the U.S.-Asia-Pacific region. The rise of China is recognized as the primary reason for the resurgence of ...

Russian foreign policy

the return of great power politics

This thoughtful and balanced text examines the development of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Jeffrey Mankoff argues that Russia's more assertive behavior since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000 has resulted from both a deep-seated consensus among its elite ...

The carbon footprint wars

what might happen if we retreat from globalization?

Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effects of climate change become increasingly dire. Whether we are fully aware of ...

El atlas geopolítico 2010

El Atlas de Le Monde Diplomatique en español

La relocalización de la producción como remedio a estelibrecamino "energívoro· que ha alimentado una deflación salarial, factor activador de la tormenta financiera; la nacionalización de los bancos para asegurar que los miles de millones de ayudas públicas no irriguen de créditos a la industria antes ...

Political geography

an introduction to space and power

Revised and updated, this is a new edition of a core undergraduate resource on Political Geography. Unique in the teaching literature, Political Geography (published originally as Politics, Geography, and 'Political Geography' ) retains its focus on the social and cultural, while systematically overviewing the entire discipline ...

Imperialism and global political economy

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of ...

El español en el mundo

El anuario del Instituto Cervantes, presenta informaciones precisas y fiables sobre la lengua española y la cultura en español del mundo. El análisis de la situación del español en áreas geopolíticas concretas, el estudio de la cultura y lengua hispánicas componen algunos de los temas ...

Islamic Central Asia

an anthology of historical sources

Edited by Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela. Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of ...

Minería transnacional, narrativas del desarrollo y resistencias sociales

Eds., Maristella Svampa, Mirta A. Antonelli. A esta altura de los tiempos, cualquier propuesta que se plantee como alternativa o modelo de desarrollo en una sociedad debe ser informada y sometida a la discusión pública. Sin embargo, en la actualidad muchos argentinos desconocen que la ...

Espejos deformantes

los estadounidenses y sus relaciones con Rusia y China en el siglo XX

Al entrar en el siglo XXI, Estados Unidos se enfrenta a dos potencias que en la actualidad tiene un papel más relevante en el escenario mundial que hace cien años. Sin embargo, las políticas norteamericanas hacia Rusia y China se han concebido en base a ...

Opium

uncovering the politics of the poppy

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times. Known to the Greeks as opos or opion, as afiun in Persian and Arabic, and Fu-yung in Chinese, it is a substance that is ...

China safari

on the trail of Beijing´s expansion in Africa

Translated by Raymond Valley; Photographs by Paolo Woods. China Safari tells the amazing#and largely unknown#story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it will change the 21st century and eclipse the role of the West in Africa. China ...

The great african war

Congo and regional geopolitics, 1996-2006

This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of ...

Diccionario latinoamericano de seguridad y geopolítica

Dir., Miguel Ángel Barrios~. Este Diccionario latinoamericano de seguridad y geopolítica procura un entendimiento sin prejuicios y académicamente riguroso de la geopolítica y el desarrollo desde la perspectiva del pensamiento latinoamericano. La función de fijar de manera precisa y rigurosa el significado de los términos ...

The Afghanistan challenge

hard realities and strategic choices

Edited by Hans- Georg Ehrhart and Charles C. Pentland. This Canadian-German dialogue reflects a larger debate, both operational and existential, within NATO concerning Afghanistan and the future of the alliance. This collection of essays by leading German and Canadian experts assesses the present state and ...

The modern Middle East

This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women#s histories of the region over its political and economic history. Ilan Pappé begins his narrative at the end of the First ...

Geopolítica de la iberidad

En esta obra ensayística, el autor considera el proceso histórico del ortograma geopolítico ibérico, mostrando cómo la Península es un marco geoestratégico, que siempre movió a las élites directoras de las poblaciones en ella asentadas, a intentar una vertebración coherente de su espacio geopolítico conformado ...