Estados asesinos

Manual para controlar y matar a los ciudadanos

A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, una de las paradojas más perturbadoras y moralmente devastadoras es la del Estado que se vuelve contra sus propios ciudadanos, ese momento atroz en que la institución concebida para garantizar la seguridad, la vida y la ...

China: la modernización permanente

China se ha convertido en uno de los actores decisivos del siglo XXI. Su ascenso económico, tecnológico y político está transformando el equilibrio global, pero las claves de su proceso de modernización hunden sus raíces mucho más atrás de lo que suele pensarse. Este libro ...

Bytes and bullets

global rivalries, private tech, and the future of modern warfare

When it comes to global dominance, military technology has always been a major geopolitical driver. For decades, the West set the rules on innovation using soft power and government funding to develop its own exclusive cutting-edge defensive capabilities. But in the digital era, the breakthroughs ...

Gaza y el destino del mundo

Un ensayo sobre la verdad, el poder y el retorno de la barbarie

Hay lugares que, a fuerza de concentrar el horror del mundo, trascienden su geografía para convertirse en conceptos. Así ocurrió con Auschwitz o con Hiroshima y, ahora, con Gaza. Ya no está solo en Palestina, sino en nuestra imaginación, en nuestra conciencia y, si se ...

Yom Kippur 1973

Victoria en el filo de la navaja

La idea de que las instituciones militares en tiempo de paz tienden a prepararse para librar la última guerra ha adquirido rango de tópico. Sin embargo, esta observación no debe interpretarse como una invitación a renunciar, tras un conflicto, a las reformas necesarias para adaptar ...

Instruments of international order

internationalism and diplomacy, 1900-50

During the first half of the twentieth century, world politics was reshaped in pursuit of a new international order. The ideological foundations of the 'new diplomacy' (and its fate during the interwar period) are well known. This book instead examines the practices of internationalism and ...

Everyday foreign policy

performing and consuming the Russian nation after Crimea

While everyday high level practices have become an important area of study, the everyday of the every(wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretical and empirical conceptualizations. Building on feminist, sociological, and ethnographic research, this book argues that everyday foreign policy is an assemblage ...

States without armies

why they exist and how they survive

One of the fundamental assumptions regarding the modern state is that it must have the capacity to defend itself from external enemies. Yet, there are twenty-one countries today-one ninth of the United Nations' membership-that do not maintain standing armies. What historical contexts, geographical endowments or ...

Markets of pain

opium, capitalism, and the global history of painkillers

For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium—how it was farmed, refined ...

Defending Taiwan

a strategy to prevent war with China

Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested—and possibly broken. Beijing believes that "reunification" is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in ...

The American way of foreign policy

ideology, economics, democracy

What is distinctively American about American foreign policy? The American Way of Foreign Policy answers that question by identifying three features of the nation's relations with other countries and tracing their impact from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. First, from its beginnings the ...

The Kissinger tapes

inside his secretly recorded phone conversations

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is unquestionably one of ...

Original sin

power, technology and war in outer space

An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare. Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the launch of the Space Shuttle were mere sideshows, drawing public attention away ...

After nations

the making and unmaking of a world order

What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future. Until recently, the system of nation-states appeared settled and eternal. Not anymore. As American hegemony ...

The Achilles trap

Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq ...

Anuario Iberoamericano sobre Política y Constitucionalismo, 2025

La securitización de la lucha contra la inmigración irregular en el Mediterráneo por parte de la UE y España

Un enfoque multidisciplinar

Examina cómo la securitización de la inmigración irregular en el Mediterráneo ha configurado una Europa Fortaleza, articulando derecho de la Unión Europea, derecho internacional de los refugiados y práctica operativa en fronteras. Analiza la evolución de las estrategias de seguridad nacionales, el impacto del Pacto ...

Pasado y futuro del orden mundial

Por qué la civilización global sobrevivirá al declive de Occidente

Amitav Acharya, una de las voces más influyentes del pensamiento progresista internacional, analiza las raíces y contradicciones que han llevado a la crisis del modelo occidental contemporáneo. Un recorrido histórico por las aportaciones de las civilizaciones no occidentales a la formación del orden mundial actual ...

Power play

video games, politics and the battle for global influence

In Power Play, leading game industry expert George E. Osborn reveals how video games - the world's largest entertainment medium - are being used by autocrats, populists and violent extremists to influence the real world around us. Video games are the world's largest entertainment medium ...

El enemigo que nos señala: Aprender a resistir a los depredadores

(El Grand Continent; 5)

Un ensayo imprescindible para orientarse en el momento geopolítico más convulso del siglo XXI. Con contribuciones de pensadores como Dan Wang, Meredith Whittaker, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Wang Huning o Minxin Pei. Hace cinco siglos, Maquiavelo advirtió a los gobernantes italianos de que sus brillantes argumentos no ...