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Incluye el Epílogo "Una modesta propuesta para resolver la crisis de la zona euro" por Yanis Varoufakis, James K. Galbraith y Stuart Holland
Contra la hegemonía de la austeridad es sin duda uno de los libros más importantes de cuantos hayan sido escritos para entender cómo la Unión Europea ha llegado a convertirse en el aparato neoliberal y burocrático que es hoy.
No siempre fue así, no estaba previsto que así fuera y fácilmente podría...
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The organization of eight South Asian nations, namely India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan , Sri Lanka and Afghanistan with observer nations, Myanmar, China, Iran, the European Union (EU) and the United States, to name a few, is known as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It was established at the first summit in Dhaka on December 7-8, 1985. India, significantly, constitutes 70 per cent or more of SAARC's...
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This book examines forty-six UN peacekeeping operations, initiated from 1956 through 2006 to manage cases of intrastate and interstate conflicts, to identify the most significant factors that could help to explain the success or lack of success of such operations. Factor analysis is used to exploit the correlations between independent variables in order to regroup them into a smaller set of factors explaining the success or failure of these operations....
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200 Betrachtungen – über Corona-Pandemie, Klimaproblematik und Ukraine-Krise.
Nach dem ersten Buch des Autors, geschrieben in und über den Zeitraum von Anfang 2020 bis Anfang 2021, geprägt durch das neuartige Corona-Virus, ist dieses Buch mehr und mehr durch den Krieg in der Ukraine beeinflusst. Es ist eine spannende dialektische Dokumentation über die Zeit von Ende November 2021 bis Ende März 2023 entstanden. Corona überwunden, möglicherweise...
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Humberto Aguilar Coronado es un negociador nato. Su biografía así lo demuestra y su vocación política lo subraya. *La Negociación, ¿es necesaria en la política?*, es un viaje por la práctica de la actividad más humana, la política. Pero el autor no se detiene en lo que es la *praxis* política, lo fundamenta en la teoría y filosofía política que recorren sus argumentos.
Un libro que es testimonio, pero sobre todo abre un camino: la negociación...
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The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England's departure from the E.U. in 2016. Yet these are all the wages of persistent flaws in the idea of the Union itself. Excessive regulations, welfare, and taxes impede economic growth. Centralization of power in Brussels has created a "democracy deficit" and lessened...
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Parece que Marcos Bucio está empeñado en ser un cronista de las elecciones presidenciales; este libro es el tercero de la serie que inicia con Dos visiones para el triunfo, continúa con Suma de restas, y ahora, con La segunda alternancia, finaliza una trilogía de textos sobre las campañas presidenciales. En esta obra, analiza detalladamente no dos sino tres estrategias: la del ganador, Enrique Peña Nieto; la de López Obrador, que por segunda...
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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...
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No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories?
At the beginning of the 1990s, the world exited the cold war and entered an era of great promise for peace and security. Guided by an invigorated United Nations, the international community set out to end conflicts that had flared into vicious civil wars and to unconditionally champion human rights and hold abusers responsible....
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The Secretary-General announced on 24 May 2018 his Agenda for Disarmament, which outlines a set of practical measures across the entire range of disarmament issues, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional arms and future weapon technologies. It seeks to generate fresh perspectives and to explore areas where serious dialogue is required to bring disarmament back to the heart of our common efforts for peace and security.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a United Nations specialised organisation in charge of international public health. Often perceived as a body that lacks efficacy and credibility, it is the best intergovernmental organization in the world today. Capable of working with different nations, political affiliation and freedoms, the World Health Organization often applies in one country, success lessons learned in another country.
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The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, volume 42 (Part II): 2017, with a foreword by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, summarizes developments and trends in 2017 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels; reviews the activity of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission; and contains a handy timeline of highlights of multilateral disarmament in 2017....
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Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first century. It was written with the general reader in mind and it strives to be accessible without downplaying the complexity of the issues it explores. This fourth edition includes updated figures, tables and treaty...
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The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, volume 41 (Part II): 2016, with a foreword by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, summarizes developments and trends in 2016 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels; reviews the activity of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission; and contains a handy timeline of highlights of multilateral disarmament in 2016....
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Le 24 mai 2018, le Secrétaire général a annoncé son Agenda pour le désarmement, qui énonce un ensemble de mesures pratiques concernant toutes les questions de désarmement, y compris les armes de destruction massive, les armes classiques et les futures technologies d'armement. Elle cherche à générer de nouvelles perspectives et à explorer des domaines dans lesquels un dialogue sérieux est nécessaire pour ramener le désarmement au cœur...
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Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus. There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in...
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If we want to protect our European values, our freedom, peace and prosperity, we must be more ambitious. We need more of the spirit of Alcide de Gasperi, of Aldo Moro and of Helmut Kohl in today's Europe. In 1946 Konrad Adenauer dreamt of a community of European people in which "every population will provide its own irreplaceable, unique contribution to the economy and to European culture, thought, poetry and Western creativity". Let us work...
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December 2019 was a catastrophe for Labour. After nearly ten years in opposition, the party has suffered its fourth straight defeat and is approaching fifteen years since it last won.
As the soul searching begins, Labour's broad church will have to ask: at what level do we disagree? Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader this has been a central question for the two sides of the left. There is constant discussion of 'splits', 'coups' and 'purges'. Anger...
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Partez à la découverte des Nations unies avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Fondée le 24 octobre 1945, l'Organisation des Nations unies (O.N.U.) est, dans l'histoire du XXe siècle, le second organisme international à compétences multiples doté d'une vocation mondiale en ce qui concerne tant ses missions que sa composition. Elle succède à la Société des Nations (S.D.N.)...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir...
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