One billion hungry

can we feed the World?

Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food ...

The new protectorates

international tutelage and the making of liberal States

German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are ...

La paradoja de la globalización

democracia y el futuro de la economía mundial

En esta crítica incisiva, Dani Rodrik combina el relato histórico con astutas observaciones que cuestionan la creencia de que el avance de la globalización es inevitable y argumenta que la globalización va acompañada de tensiones muy graves. El libro plantea un tema que ha adquirido ...

Pathways to peace

America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The recent upheavals in the Middle East are challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics between the United States, the Arab world, and Israel. In Pathways to Peace, today's leading experts explain these changes in the region and their positive implications for the prospect of ...

Crónica del nuevo Oriente Próximo

La historia vuelve a galopar en Oriente Próximo. Los pueblos árabes se han alzado por su libertad y dignidad enfrentándose a regímenes tan decrépitos como tiránicos. En tan solo un año, 2011, ya han logrado derrocar a cuatro déspotas: Ben Alí, Mubarak, Gadafi y Saleh ...

El retorno de Eurasia, 1991-2011

veinte años del nuevo gran espacio geoestratégico que abrió paso al siglo XXI

«La desintegración de la Unión Soviética en 1991, no solo llevó a la independencia de los cinco “istanes”, o nuevos países soberanos del Asia Central, con todo lo que ello significó. Además, junto con el cambio de régimen en Rusia y el fi nal de ...

Guantánamo, diez años

Diez años después de la fundación de la prisión de Guantánamo, Emma Reverter realiza un lúcido reportaje sobre el centro de detenciones más tristemente conocido de la actualidad. La cárcel de Guantánamo cumple diez años. La polémica prisión estadounidense en la bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba ...

The U.S. military

a basic introduction

This book provides a basic guide to the US military and will raise questions for further discussion by students and other curious readers. The US Military provides an accessible starting-point for those with a limited knowledge of this institution. Covering a wide range of subject ...

Un mundo asimétrico

cambio demográfico, globalización y territorio (microensayos)

En este ensayo se recogen los artículos que el reconocido y premiado autor ha publicado en la prensa económica nacional (fundamentalmente en Cinco Días) desde 2001 hasta la actualidad con el objetivo de introducir la dimensión demográfica (y geo-demográfica) en el debate económico y político.

From Beirut to Jerusalem

One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his ten years of experience reporting ...

El Atlas de las mundializaciones

El Atlas de Le Monde Diplomatique en español

A pesar de ser reputados líderes "antiimperialistas", Fidel Castro y Mahmud Ahmadineyad posan para los fotógrafos en chándal de marca. Encontramos bares de sushi en Estados Unidos y fast-foods estadounidenses a dos pasos de la Ciudad Prohibida. La mundialización se manifiesta como una realidad, en ...

Elementos para una teoría de la política exterior

Este libro es un ensayo eminentemente teórico que pretende ser una herramienta necesaria para estudiantes de licenciatura, postgrado e investigadores en general sobre las materias que el libro denomina política exterior, interés y seguridad nacional o cooperación internacional. En este sentido, no se trata de ...

Peacebuilding

from concept to commission

The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a concise introduction that traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and functioning of ...

Russia's international relations in the Twentieth Century

Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of the Cold ...

Postcolonial theory and international relations

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations is the first book to provide a comprehensive and ...

Understanding conflict and conflict analysis

By examining the dynamic forces which shape and re-shape major conflicts, Understanding Conflict and Conflict Analysis provides students with the new knowledge base needed to successfully study conflict sources, processes and transformations. It covers social, political, and psychological features central to understanding conflict situations and ...

American Force

dangers, delusions, and dilemmas in national security

While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing ...

Fragile States

war and conflict in the modern world

Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks ...

Contemporary security and strategy

This text brings together a range of specially-commissioned chapters to provide an accessible introduction to Security Studies in the 21st century. The third edition has been expanded to cover non-military challenges to security, and includes new learning aids.

When more is less

the international project in Afghanistan

The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of the intervention and its related peace-building mission. What were the forces shaping this grand ...