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La presente obra ofrece un recorrido por las declaraciones de más de 70 periodistas que trabajan para diarios de América Latina y España responsables de crear los estereotipos existentes sobre el Gobierno venezolano. Redactores, editores, columnistas y editorialistas nos relatan cómo cubren la información generada en dicho país, el funcionamiento interno de sus redacciones, los secretos y vicios de la profesión periodística. Las confesiones...
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Even before the Ukrainian crisis, neither Russia nor the EU was content with their relationship. Despite economic interdependence, strategic partnership, official declarations of belonging culturally and historically to the same "European family" and in spite of Russia's stated interest in establishing an economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, the two actors found it difficult to agree on important issues. The conflicted atmosphere...
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Detention and confinement-of both combatants and large groups of civilians-have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions "protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration...
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From the American Revolution, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence, to the waning popularity of the Iraq war, Philip Golub depicts the long American journey to global ascendancy.
Through the study of imperial identity formation, Golub shows how a culture of force and expansion has shaped American foreign policy. Taking a historical and sociological approach to his examination of the US logic of world power, he reveals how entrenched...
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The Anglosphere refers to a community of English-speaking states, nations, and societies centered on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has profoundly influenced the direction of world history and fascinated countless observers. This book argues that the origins of the Anglosphere are racial. Drawing on theories of collective identity-formation and framing, the book develops a new framework for analyzing...
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Siddharth Kara's Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business, and its detailed analysis of the trade's immense economic benefits and human cost. This volume is Kara's second, explosive study of slavery, this time focusing on the deeply entrenched and wholly unjust system of bonded labor. Drawing on eleven years of research in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, Kara delves into an ancient...
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Algunos lugares del mundo brillan por su poder, y proporcionan a sus soberanos un marco monumental y una legitimidad. Otros, frecuentados por mercaderes, soldados y bandoleros, son encrucijadas de caminos de un mundo en evolución. Y algunos, cargados de historia y pasión, pertenecen a pueblos dispuestos a luchar para proteger su herencia. La geopolítica no solo se escribe con palabras, sino con lugares. De Nueva York a La Meca, de Suez a Malaca,...
28) Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World
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Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers...
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Sin lugar a dudas el tema del mercado interno en Japón ha sido un elemento presente, no sólo dentro de la agenda de investigación académica en las últimas décadas, sino un tema político que ha marcado sus relaciones económicas internacionales con sus socios estratégicos. Los reclamos de mayor participación en el mismo, de Estados Unidos y Europa, definieron los rumbos de los vínculos diplomáticos desde la transformación de la economía...
30) The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
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This important book is among the few attempts to assess the impact of the efforts of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to build democratic institutions. The case studies presented here provide a portrait of the mechanisms by which ideas commonly associated with democratic states have evolved in formerly communist states, revealing conditions that help as well as hurt the process.
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In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation as to whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's...
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Leonardo Avritzer is Professor of Political Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. He is the author of numerous articles on democracy and civil society in Latin America, and of two books in Portugese: Sociedade Civil e Democratização and A Moralidade da Democracia.
This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in...
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In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals.
This book shows how you can apply the Global Goals to your life, as an individual.
7 years on, 600 million people live on less than $2 per day, in starvation, without healthcare, education, clean water, toilets or electricity. Catastrophic climate change lingers over us, as does massive species extinction, while we pollute the planet. Chasms of inequality exist between males and females, rich and...
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Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" "Winner of the 2003 Best Book On Democratization" Nancy Bermeo is Professor of Political Science at Princeton University. She is the author of Revolution Within a Revolution (Princeton) and a senior editor of World Politics.
For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic...
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Este libro tiene por objetivo presentar propuestas de política sanitaria, ambiental y tecnológica que permitan la reactivación de la integración multidimensional latinoamericana, con base en estudios de regionalismo comparado de experiencias de Europa, de Asia, de África y de América Latina. Propuestas que permiten avanzar hacia nuevas actividades prioritarias en la integración regional latinoamericana, mediante políticas: 1) sanitarias, expresadas...
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"Winner of the 2002 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize" Selig S. Harrison is a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate...
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In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam-that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations...
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Simon Reich is professor of global affairs and political science at Rutgers University, Newark. Richard Ned Lebow is professor of international political theory at King's College London and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that U.S. hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. Good-Bye Hegemony! argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated...
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La relación entre Perú, Bolivia y Chile ha sido históricamente complicada. Si bien existieron espacios de cooperación a nivel bilateral y multilateral, el vínculo también presenta dinámicas que alejaron a los tres países. Por ello, la presente investigación busca contribuir en el desarrollo de una mayor cooperación entre Perú, Bolivia y Chile, al identificar la existencia de una agenda de carácter trinacional en el siglo XXI que permita...
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