Critical turning points in the Middle East

1915-2015

This book takes a refreshing look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources ...

Los cónsules de extranjeros en la Edad Moderna y a principios de la Edad Contemporánea

La obra nos ofrece un panorama sobre cuáles son en la actualidad las problemáticas más recurrentes capaces de atraer el interés de los especialistas del estudio de la institución consular, poniendo de relieve el protagonismo ocupado por el análisis de la relación establecida entre los ...

Russia and Europe

building bridges, digging trenches

Russian-European political relations have always been problematic and one of the main reasons for this is the different perspectives on even the very basic notions and concepts of political life. With a worldwide recession, the problems as well as the opportunities in Russian-European relations are ...

The Statesman's Yearbook 2014

the politics, cultures and economies of the world

THE STATESMAN'S YEARBOOK 2014 is a Core Collections Star Title, as awarded by EBSCO. This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. The 2014 edition includes: * Revised and updated biographical ...

Diccionario de las relaciones internacionales y política exterior

Esta innovadora obra ofrece una visión de conjunto e interdisciplinar de 651 conceptos seleccionados, explicados de forma rigurosa, didáctica y clara. De la mano de 13 expertos y un buen número de colaboradores (juristas, historiadores, militares, politólogos, economistas y geógrafos), se facilita una herramienta básica ...

España y Estados Unidos en la era de las independencias

Al profundizar en las relaciones históricas entre España y Estados Unidos es indispensable destacar la importante ayuda española a la independencia de este país y sus consecuencias en la evolución de las fronteras de la América septentrional. Los trabajos de prestigiosos historiadores, hispanistas y sociólogos ...

Governing the World

the history of an idea

The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark Mazower. In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states ...

La situación de las personas refugiadas en España

Informe 2013

El undécimo informe anual de la Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR) analiza la realidad de las personas refugiadas en el mundo, en Europa y en España. 2012 fue el año de los conflictos en Siria y Mali y del aumento de las solicitudes ...

Key research concepts in politics and international relations

From action research to validity, this innovative and informative text will prove an invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Key Features: - Each entry is consistently structured, providing: a simple definition, a focused explanation, a summary ...

Diplomatic sites

a critical enquiry

Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference. This book is framed as a discussion on whether increasing ...

The European Union and South Korea

the legal framework for strenthening trade, economic and political relations

This title offers insights into the state of EU-Korea relations and considers potential lessons for other bilateral and regional initiatives. The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of bilateral and regional cooperation in all parts of the world, the EU and South Korea have been ...

The great powers and the international system

systemic theory in empirical perspective

Do great leaders make history? Or are they compelled to act by historical circumstance? This debate has remained unresolved since Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it in the mid-nineteenth century, yet implicit answers inform our policies and our views of history. In this book ...

La cooperación Sur-Sur y triangular en América latina

políticas afirmativas y prácticas transformadoras

En la última década, los países latinoamericanos se han destacado como agentes dinamizadores del desarrollo regional e internacional. Sus contribuciones al cumplimento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio y sus propuestas políticas en el marco de coaliciones Sur-Sur están desencadenando cambios en la gobernanza ...

El enfoque basado en derechos humanos en los programas y proyectos de desarrollo

Los estudios internacionales en 2012: grandes temas para el debate

(Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, Nº 100, año 2012)

SUMARIO: Jordi Vaquer i Fanés Presentación. Daniel Innerarity La gobernanza global, de la soberanía a la responsabilidad Juan Gabriel Tokatlian Crisis y redistribución del poder mundial José Antonio Alonso La teoría del desarrollo y los cambios en el sistema internacional Qin Yaqing Cultura y pensamiento ...

The end of power

from boardrooms to battlefields and churches to States, why being in charge isn't what it used to be

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It ...

Deconstructing international politics

Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship ...

Cyberpolitics in international relations

Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today's world. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--background conditions and routine processes and decisions. Now, however, experts have begun to recognize its effect on ...

International politics

concepts, theories and issues

The study of international politics has become truly global in nature and scope, as the world stands politically organised in nearly two hundred nation states at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. The globalisation of political economies and the 'internationalisation' of ...

Les relations internationales

Si l'Etat, en tant que territoire délimité par des frontières, est ce qui tonde la dimension internationale des liens et des rapports entre les pays, l'étude de la diplomatie et des politiques étrangères ne suffit pas à rendre compte de l'ensemble des ...