De Ucrania al mar de la China

el eje ruso-chino ante un Occidente roto

El actual desbarajuste del mundo ha acelerado los enfrentamientos y rivalidades que se venían divisando en el horizonte geopolítico mundial. Lo que antes era un proceso a medio plazo se ha convertido en un presente alarmante en la pugna por un nuevo orden internacional. Durante ...

El terrorismo transnacional y del narcotráfico

mensaje terrorista, violencia y Derecho penal. Aproximaciones a un modelo preventivo

Esta obra invita al lector a entender el fenómeno terrorista como parte del universo de los delitos transnacionales, los cuales son cada vez más dinámicos y ubicuos, pues no se trata de forma aislada a una sola actividad criminal sino a múltiples de ellas haciéndolos ...

Tenemos que hablar de Putin

por qué Occidente se equivoca con el presidente ruso

¿Quién es el verdadero Vladímir Putin? ¿Qué es lo que quiere? ¿Qué hará a continuación? A pesar de los millones de palabras que se han escrito sobre la Rusia de Putin, Occidente sigue sin comprender realmente a uno de los políticos más poderosos del mundo ...

Apogeo y declive de la Globalización

Este es el segundo volumen de la obra dedicada al proceso de globalización y su desarrollo en el filo de los siglos XX y XXI. En él, su autor, tras haber explicado las causas y los cimientos de la formación histórica de la Globalización en ...

Ecología política y derechos humanos en América Latina: diversas conflictividades, un mismo planeta

(Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, Nº 130, año 2022)

Dado que la perspectiva histórica está ausente de la mayoría de las publicaciones sobre los Estudios del Desarrollo y la Cooperación Internacional, este monográfico da prioridad a los enfoques críticos alternativos y a la revisión histórica de esta temática, que tradicionalmente se ha abordado desde ...

El conflicto con el ISIS

Operación Inherent Resolve. Junio 2014 - enero 2020

Entre 2003 y 2011, el grupo terrorista conocido como Al Qaeda en Irak (AQI) estuvo entre los elementos más peligrosos y brutales de la insurgencia iraquí que nació tras el colapso del régimen de Saddam Hussein. Dirigida por el yihadista jornado Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, buscaba ...

Entre Este y Oeste

Estado, nación y conflicto en la Ucrania contemporánea

Entre Este y Oeste. Estado, nación y conflicto en la Ucrania contemporánea no pretende hacer un balance del EuroMaydan y sus efectos sobre la Ucrania de hoy; por el contrario, invita a abrir un panorama del pasado situando los dramáticos acontecimientos del 2014 en una ...

All roads lead north

China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas

During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have been redrawn, to make space for ...

The art of getting more back in diplomacy

negotiation lessons from North Korea, China, Libya, and the United Nations

In the field of negotiation theory, the Harvard Project's Getting to Yes and Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal occupy polar opposition locations on a spectrum considering distributive and integrative negotiation theories. Getting More Back offers case studies from international negotiations in ...

The making of Eurasia

competition and cooperation between China's Belt and Road Initiative and Russia

The Making of Eurasia investigates the multi-layered spectrum of China and Russia's Eurasian policies towards each other, ranging from competition to cooperation, as well as the role of regional actors in between. The book examines the impact of and responses to the dynamic Sino-Russian ...

Kosovo divided

ethnicity, nationalism and the struggle for a state

Given the recent revival of nationalism in many parts of the world in tandem with new conflicts and forms of interventionism, this book uses the case of Kosovo to discuss some of key problems around contemporary practices of state-building. Based on exhaustive research and fieldwork ...

Afghanistan under siege

the Afghan body and the postcolonial border

In this book, based on field work undertaken in Afghanistan itself and through engagement with postcolonial theory, Bojan Savic critiques western intervention in Afghanistan by showing how its casting of Afghan natives as "dangerous" has created a power network which fractures the country - in echoes ...

El siglo que acabó en sangre

de Al Qaeda al Diablo de Oklahoma

La primera ocasión en que un yihadista trató de derribar las Torres Gemelas no fue en 2001: ocurrió ocho años antes. Y el primer asalto a gran escala del terrorismo islámico se produjo, irónicamente, contra el lugar más sagrado del islam. Pocos conocen estos datos ...

The Taliban at War

2001 - 2021

How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which ...

The ledger

accounting for failure in Afghanistan

'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and ...

Toxic

a history of nerve agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia

Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture-yet, strangely, the Third Reich never used them. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies were stunned to ...

Palestine

matters of truth and justice

In January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced his 'deal of the century'. Supposedly intended to 'resolve' the Palestine-Israel conflict, it accepted Israeli occupation as a fait accompli. Azmi Bishara places this normalisation of occupation in its historical context, examining Palestine as an unresolved case ...

Accidental allies

the U.S.-Syrian democratic forces partnership against the Islamic State

The U.S.-led effort to fight the Islamic State in northeastern Syria since 2014 has been as controversial and poorly understood as it has been significant. Advocates of fighting "by, with and through" the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) view the campaign as a ...

Putin's war in Syria

Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence

"Skillfully lays out Mr. Putin's approach to the Middle East." Wall Street Journal "Detailed and fascinating." Diplomatic Courier Putin intervened in Syria in September 2015, with international critics predicting that Russia would overextend itself and Barack Obama suggesting the country would find itself in ...

China unbound

a new world disorder

As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar "New Silk Road" global investment project to ...