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From cultural export to global network: Germanys cultural instituteHow have the challenges, role, and vision of one of Europes most important cultural institutes changed over the past decades? Carola Lentz and Marie-Christin Gabriel offer a concise history of the Goethe-Institut from its beginnings in Cold-War West Germany to its mission in todays multipolar world. Historical documents combined with interviews with former and current staff members provide lively impressions of the institutes work in 98 countries.From cultural export to global network: this phrase aptly summarises the over seventy-year story of the Goethe-Institut, which is closely interwoven with Germanys post-war history and with global transformations. In the beginning, the institutes work was focused on promoting the German language abroad and exporting German culture. But the understanding of culture soon became more diverse. The Goethe-Institut developed into the largest intermediary organisation in German foreign cultural and educational policy, and in the process eventually redefined its role. Today, the Goethe-Institut, with a total of 151 institutes in 98 countries, operates primarily as a global network of local and regional cultural initiatives. An up-to-date afterword reflects how the institute is responding to the recent multiple crises such as the Corona epidemic, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the increasing number of illiberal regimes.

The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the publics relationship with the murky world of espionage and security. It lifted the lid on alleged Soviet infiltration of British services and revealed a culture of law-breaking, bugging and burgling. But how much do we know about the story behind the scandal? In To Catch a Spy, Tim Tate reveals the astonishing true story of the British governments attempts to silence whistleblower Peter Wright and hide the truth about Britains intelligence services and political elites. Its a story of state-sanctioned cover-up plots; of the government lying to Parliament and courts around the world; and of stories leaked with the intention to mislead and deceive. This is a tale of high treason and low farce. Drawing on thousands of pages of previously unpublished court transcripts, the contents of secret British government files, and original interviews with many of the key players in the Spycatcher trials, it draws back the curtain on a hidden world. A world where spies, politicians and Britains most senior civil servants conspired to ride roughshod over the law, prevented the public from hearing about their actions and mounted a cynical conspiracy to deceive the world. It is the story of Peter Wrights ruthless and often lawless obsession to uncover Russian spies, both real and imagined, his belated determination to reveal the truth and the lengths to which the British government would go to silence him.

"An Idealized Society: Travel to on Next Future" is a work that transports us to an intriguing and thought-provoking setting. In this alternative society, there is no money or individual ownership. Through fictional storytelling, the book invites us to question our own reality, exploring the foundations of our current society. It promises controversy and encourages us to reflect on the structures that shape our lives.

Este livro é um apelo a esta geração produtiva, esteja ela no Brasil ou qualquer outro país. 1 ― Este é um livro de métodos. Mais do que métodos — roteiro ― roteiro seguro para crescer e prosperar –

Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa have radically destabilised the region, which is beset with rising religious and political tensions, sectarian conflict and terrorism. Though in crisis and suffering from a paralysis of will, the region is also vastly rich in culture, and vital for the stability of the international order. There is an urgent need for an accurate understanding of these complex developments. What does the future hold for this geopolitically critical region? In this vital multidisciplinary volume, leading Middle Eastern and Western scholars present constructive, long-term solutions to endemic socio-cultural, economic and political issues facing the MENA region - issues which require a fundamental transformation of the current system of values and patterns of thought. They offer expert analysis on critical facets of the region, including globalisation, the environment and sustainability, education, nonviolence, human rights, inter-religious coexistence, Islamic social principles, and Quranic ethics. Enriching our understanding of the contemporary affairs of the MENA region, Winds of Change is essential reading for achieving peace, socio-cultural progress and prosperity in the region.

Esta magnífica obra trata do benefício social PIS devido aos trabalhadores em virtude da Emenda Constitucional n° 1, de 17/10/1969, Artigos 153, caput, § 3° e 165, caput, inciso V, direito revigorado

Time is something that is very difficult to define. It is an attempt to describe something that harbors two different realities at once.So it is when a person reads something that has the potential to delve deep into the minds of people of different professions, educational levels and current life tasks. For example, politicians, MEPs, mothers and fathers with school-age children, the self-employed, managers, tradespeople and working people in general.In this book, they will find a story written for all Europeans. A story that will awaken a memory in you - as a person - regardless of age, profession or generation. But it is not just a story, it is also a current regional development concept that you can help shape and that is deeply rooted in European history.It is a journey through time and at the same time a description of a present that can become possible if enough people understand that their future depends on making it a reality.The history of Europe contains a circular culture, a history that is deeply rooted in the genetic heritage of every European. This book is a guide to reawaken this consciousness. Or to describe it better, the awakening of a seed whose time has come to germinate.Education is a natural process that depends on the environment. In this book, different generations are reminded of their heritage. A book that time has written to awaken a seed that rests deep within everyone.

Un factor importante que contribuye a la representación insuficiente de las mujeres en el mercado laboral es la dificultad de equilibrar las obligaciones laborales y familiares, dificultad especialmente agravada por la creciente prevalencia de horarios de trabajo prolongados. Tradicionalmente se ha venido considerando que una solucion a esta problematica podria encontrarse en el impulso de formulas de trabajo flexible, estableciendose una relacion idilica entre el teletrabajo y la conciliacion, relacion que se ha reforzado en los ultimos meses con la extension del teletrabajo y su regulacion especifica. Sin embargo, esta correlacion no tiene el mismo impacto en hombres y en mujeres, siendo las mujeres que teletrabajan las que asumen mayoritariamente la labor de cuidado familiar y trabajo domestico. En consecuencia, existe el riesgo de que la opcion por el teletrabajo se feminice aumentando con ello el riesgo de una nueva invisibilizacion del trabajo de las mujeres, intensificandose la desigualdad de genero en el marco del trabajo en remoto. Son las cuestiones que preceden las que justifican el interes de la presente propuesta, que tiene como objetivo principal analizar el impacto del teletrabajo en la conciliacion de la vida laboral, familiar y personal en clave de genero, centrando la atencion en los desafios existentes para alcanzar el deseado equilibrio entre vida laboral y familiar y en las medidas necesarias para promover la corresponsabilidad de mujeres y hombres en las labores de cuidado.

Dass menschenrechtliche Prinzipien universal sein sollen, ist ein Gebot der Vernunft, das uns die Aufklarung auferlegt hat. Indes, wie sind die Erfordernisse dieses Universalismus zu erfullen in der jeweiligen konkreten Weltlage? Das vermag uns nur eine politische Vernunft zu sagen, welche sich anders als Kants praktische Vernunft in Zeithorizonten bewegt. Aber eben diese Vernunft verliert heute rasch Terrain an antiuniversalistische Theorien, die kulturelle Sonderrechte propagieren und verfalschte Vergangenheiten produzieren. Dabei gerat die gute Gesinnung zum Mastab des Handelns und die Entrustung zum Mittel geistiger Auseinandersetzung. Um zu ermessen, was hierbei auf dem Spiel steht, verlangt Egon Flaig geistesgeschichtliche Ruckbesinnung. Er fragt zum einen, welche Diskurse eine antiuniversalistische Einstellung legitimiert und vorangetrieben haben; und er erortert zum anderen, weshalb die politische Vernunft auf historische Verankerung angewiesen ist. Denn allein aus einem kulturellen Gedachtnis heraus, das sich der Aufklarung verpflichtet wei, gewinnen wir die Orientierung fur politisches Handeln im Geiste eines emanzipatorischen Universalismus.

Con este volumen III se concluye la presente «Política de la Liberación». En el volumen I (2007) se trata el tema desde una historia mundial no eurocéntrica de la política. En el volumen II (2009) no

Judith Shklar es una de esas pensadoras liberales que, en tiempos tan convulsos como los actuales, están adquiriendo una gran relevancia. Su principal preocupación como teórica política es la defensa de la libertad civica y la descripcion de los modos y circunstancias en los que puede ser practicada y defendida.En La obligacion politica, se pone de manifiesto el lugar central que Judith Shklar concede a la libertad de pensamiento. Firme defensora del concepto de libertad positiva, la autora defiende que un liberal politico debe comprometerse profundamente con la sociedad que habita. Estos textos son, por otra parte, demostraciones practicas de la filosofia de enseñanza de la autora y de su meticulosa preparacion de la docencia.Las veintitres conferencias reunidas fueron pronunciadas por Judith Shklar en Harvard durante la primavera de 1992. Se articulan alrededor de tres ejes tematicos. El primero es una lectura de la obligacion politica en clave de una filosofia de lo comun, mas alla de la mera reivindicacion de no injerencia. El segundo, la propuesta de un temperamento civico liberal acorde con el compromiso politico de Shklar. En ultimo lugar, una breve exploracion de dos situaciones limite en la vinculacion normativa: el caso de la desobediencia y el exilio.Un libro indispensable para profundizar en una de las mas importantes contribuciones a la filosofia politica del siglo XX.

Pocos temas resultan tan fundamentales en Sociología como la clase y sin embargo, sigue siendo un concepto permanentemente cuestionado. Los sociólogos no sólo no se ponen de acuerdo en cuanto a la mejor definicion del concepto, sino tambien en su funcion general en la teoria social y, lo que es mas, en si sigue siendo relevante en el analisis de la sociedad contemporanea. Algunos opinan que, en gran medida, las clases se han difuminado en las sociedades contemporaneas; otros piensan que las clases aun suponen una de las formas principales de desigualdad y poder social. Hay quien concibe la clase como un fenomeno economico muy concreto y quien defiende una nocion amplia que incluye dimensiones culturales asi como condiciones economicas. Este libro explora las bases teoricas de los enfoques principales en seis capitulos escritos por expertos en la materia. A modo de conclusion presenta un mapa conceptual de estos enfoques respondiendo a la cuestion: Si las clases son la respuesta, ¿cual es la pregunta?.

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society.Journalists Fintan OToole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland. What do the words united Ireland even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?OToole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Irelands most intractable questions.

A Editora Contracorrente tem a satisfação de anunciar o lançamento de mais um inédito de Hans Kelsen em português.Trata-se de "Direito Público Austríaco: um esboço apresentado em perspectiva históric

But our way of life is in danger of dying. The author tackles this weighty subject with astonishing ease. A non-fiction book that is fun to read. Because it tells the story as vividly as a novel or a podcast. An extraordinary rescue mission from Hamburg to New York. Including: Joe Biden, Sanna Marin, Robert Habeck, Justin Trudeau... After five years of research, future expert Professor Bernd Thomsen now provides you with hundreds of learnings from 39 countries, futurology, exciting facts. And inspiring optimism. And above all:The formula for how to save our democracy.For everyone who loves our way of life. Even if politics is not your business.Do you love your freedom? Then read this book!

Margaret Thatcher is a British icon. There is no denying her place in history as Britains greatest peacetime Prime Minister. The reaction to her death confirms that twenty-three years after leaving office she still bestrides the political scene, both in Britain and around the world, like a colossus. Margaret Thatcher was elected to Parliament in 1959. Twenty years later she became Britains first woman Prime Minister. She achieved two further landslide election victories, making her the longest-serving British Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool. She resigned in November 1990 after eleven-and-a-half years at the pinnacle of British politics. Memories of Margaret Thatcher brings together over 200 personal reminiscences and anecdotes from those who - whether political friends or opponents, observing her from the press gallery or toiling to keep her flame alight in the constituencies - experienced close encounters with the Iron Lady. They include, among others, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Matthew Parris, Michael Howard, Paddy Ashdown, Adam Boulton, Lord Ashcroft, Sebastian Coe, Boris Johnson, Ann Widdecombe, William Hague, Sir Bernard Ingham, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Esther Rantzen, Dame Ann Leslie, David Davis, Liam Fox and many more. Amusing, revealing, sympathetic and occasionally antagonistic, these observations combine to give a unique portrait of the political and personal life of a remarkable woman. They show the deeply private and compassionate nature of a woman who will forever be known as the Iron Lady.

In The Prince Machiavelli announces his great moral (or perhaps we should say immoral) revolution in politics in order to make governments serve the interests of most ordinary people and not the aristocraticor richfew. The core of Machiavellis teaching princes how not to be good is found in his re-definition of the traditional virtues of liberality, mercy, and faith. ln re-defining these traditional virtues Machiavelli advises a political leader that if he wants to preserve himself, he should do what is necessary to secure the lives, families, and property of his many subjects or fellow citizens, not seck to reward or otherwise favor his relatively few aristocratic supporters.

In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three centuries. Ian Rutledge reveals the intense imperial rivalry between six European powers - Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia - who all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of the Islamic Mediterranean. The competition between these states made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. Yet, as new contenders entered the contest, and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards the First World War.

Presenta la variable ambiental desde la necesidad de reducir y procurar eliminar los escenarios conflictivos vinculados, fundamentalmente, con las limitaciones en la capacidad de acceder a recursos naturales que satisfacen necesidades basicas del ser humano, para contribuir a reducir la pobreza y vulnerabilidad de las poblaciones.La dificultad o imposibilidad de acceder a recursos naturales vitales, aumenta el numero y severidad de conflictos ambientales, y estos contribuyen a incrementar la pobreza unida indisolublemente a la vulnerabilidad de la poblacion.Desde la necesaria interdisciplinariedad y transversalidad en el tratamiento de todos los temas, se innova teorica y doctrinariamente en cuanto a desarrollo compatible y equilibrado, vulnerabilidad ambiental, recursos naturales, paz ambiental, violencia ambiental, esclavitud ambiental, teoria del vigia ambiental y teoria del ocho de la Tierra.Se incluyen figuras, fotografias, imagenes, tablas y graficos.