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Una reveladora investigación para comprender si estamos ante un verdadero avance o una trampa disfrazada de esperanza.¿Es la transición energética una solución sostenible o el preludio de una nueva explotacion global? La fiebre del oro verde expone la cara oculta de la lucha por los recursos naturales, donde la dependencia de los combustibles fosiles amenaza con ser reemplazada por una "adiccion verde" a los minerales estrategicos. Miguel Golmayo nos guia en un analisis contundente sobre el impacto real de esta fiebre por lo "verde", revelando como las grandes potencias, lejos de salvar el planeta, se enfrentan en una guerra comercial por controlar el mercado de las energias renovables. Una exploracion de los intereses ocultos que marcan el ritmo de la transicion y nos advierte: este cambio promete tanto como amenaza.

Una obra esencial para entender sin prejuicios la larga historia del conflicto palestino-israelíEl 7 de octubre de 2023 Israel vivió el atentado más grave de su historia. La brutal respuesta perpetrada en la Franja de Gaza ha hecho que una serie de organismos internacionales y muchos analistas hablen de genocidio. Asi, la lectura del conflicto en Palestina se ha visto enturbiada por la division de opiniones y emociones, dificultando el relato fidedigno.El reputado periodista frances Pierre Haski trata de resolver la encrucijada advirtiendo que ese enfrentamiento no comenzo el 7 de octubre, sino que debe enmarcarse en un contexto que viene de muy atras. Y recuerda en estas paginas que sostener que los atentados de Hamas no surgen de la nada no equivale a justificarlos.Haski repasa sus cuatro decadas de experiencia como corresponsal en el extranjero para dar perspectiva sobre lo que esta en juego en este conflicto. Desde su primer reportaje en Gaza en 1982 ha seguido y documentado todas las etapas de la historia de la region, marcadas tanto por momentos dramaticos como por efimeros periodos de esperanza.Como testigo de primera mano, el autor se sumerge en sus archivos y nos ofrece un detallado y profundo analisis de la crisis desencadenada en octubre, punto de inflexion en una trayectoria ya de por si turbulenta que ha desatado una grave crisis de repercusiones mundiales.

Un grupo amplio de especialistas del Instituto Mora, de la Universidad de Quintana Roo y de la UNAM se reúnen en esta obra para analizar las continuidades y transformaciones de las sociedades centroamericanas, desde las guerras civiles que tuvieron lugar en la region en la decada de 1980 hasta la actualidad. Los ejes tematicos son diversos: las formas de participacion de distintos sectores sociales en las guerras civiles en Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua; la intervencion de Argentina en el impulso a la contrainsurgencia en Hondura s; la presencia de Mexico en la promocion de la paz regional; el papel de las expresiones literarias y musicales como formas de resistencia y visibilizacion de las luchas; los desafios derivados del fin del conflicto armado y el proceso de reinsercion de los excombatientes; la transformacion de la violencia politica en violencia social; y la busqueda de justicia en la arena internacional ante las masacres perpetradas en la guerra. De este modo, el libro aborda la historia y el presente de varios paises de la region, haciendo referencia a dos etapas que suelen tratarse en forma separada: la guerra y la posguerra. Logra conjuntar temas novedosos y perspectivas de analisis diversas con la intencion de estimular el interes en el estudio de la region centroamericana, para desentrañar su creciente complejidad.

La implosión inesperada de la banca norteamericana Lehman Brothers el 15 de septiembre de 2008 propició el surgimiento del G-20, formado por líderes políticos de potencias desarrolladas y emergentes con el objeto de coordinar medidas para intentar controlar los estragos de una crisis financiera sistemica. Hasta entonces, el G-7, con tan solo el 10% de la poblacion mundial y el 46% del PIB global, habia dominado el debate economico-financiero mundial. El G-20 representa dos tercios de la poblacion del planeta y el 85% del PIB, un cambio cualitativo de gran trascendencia que ha logrado poner en marcha un proceso diplomatico innovador, donde tambien participa España, siendo el unico pais que cuenta con el estatus de invitado permanente en el grupo. Tras casi doce cumbres en sus mas de ocho años de vida, el G-20 no solo ha sido capaz de incidir en la regulacion financiera, la reforma del FMI o la modernizacion de reglas fiscales globales de la mano de la OCDE, sino que tambien ha impulsado iniciativas en campos como el de la seguridad alimentaria, el crecimiento verde, las infraestructuras o la energia. Pero la nueva Administracion Trump lo cuestiona debido a su optica coordinadora y reguladora global, algo que se contrapone a la vision nacionalista y restringida del nuevo inquilino de la Casa Blanca.

Los autores de esta obra combinan una interesante mezcla de habilidades y experiencias en la academia, la diplomacia y el sector público, en un ejercicio que se llevó a cabo en el Grupo Coppan, consultoria mexicana que tiene entre sus objetivos contribuir al debate y a la formulacion de politicas en temas centrales para los intereses de Mexico.

Auxiliándose de la investigación de archivos clasificados estadounidenses referentes a varios episodios de diálogo entre Washington y La Habana, el estudio de diversos registros oficiales como el archivo del departamento de Estado y las entrevistas a personajes clave, como Fidel Castro y Jimmy Carter, los autores realizan un analisis politico y periodistico completo sobre la historia de las relaciones diplomaticas oficiales y no oficiales entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, desde 1959 hasta la actualidad.

México es un país particularmente vulnerable a lo que ocurre allende sus fronteras. Diversos motivos contribuyen a ello. La ubicación geopolítica, vecino de la potencia más importante del mundo; su caracter birregional, culturalmente perteneciente a America Latina, economicamente anclado a Estados Unidos; la apertura de su economia, uno de los paises que ha firmado mayor numero de acuerdos de libre comercio; el peso de sus relaciones exteriores en la conformacion de la identidad nacional; la condicion de pais de emigracion, transmigracion e inmigracion; finalmente, la transnacionalizacion del crimen organizado y el mercado de drogas ilegales.Este libro integra veintidos articulos escritos por conocedores de diversos angulos de las relaciones exteriores de Mexico. Proporciona elementos de reflexion y discusion sobre un buen numero de problemas sobresalientes para la politica exterior de Mexico al adentrarnos en la segunda mitad del tercer lustro del siglo XXI.Los trabajos aqui reunidos -organizados en cinco secciones- difieren en las categorias analiticas utilizadas, los problemas que se subrayan o el mayor o menor optimismo con que se contempla el futuro. Ahora bien, todos coinciden en tres objetivos basicos: identificar los problemas que enfrenta la politica exterior de Mexico, señalar las metas a perseguir para enfrentarlos y elaborar sobre la diversidad de obstaculos para alcanzarlas.El conjunto permite adquirir una vision integral de las relaciones de Mexico con el mundo, su complejidad y los aspectos que mayor significado tienen para el futuro de la vida nacional.

"Impactos da Presença Militar em Roraima: Análise Histórica, Socioeconômica, Formação de Fronteira e Desenvolvimentismo na Amazônia Setentrional" é uma investigação profunda e reveladora sobre a dinâ

The authors examine the theoretical underpinnings of the Colombian medical tourism industry, define essential ideas, and provide logical connections between chapters to ensure the books coherence throughout. Each chapters importance to addressing the study question and achieving the goals is underlined, and the relationship between chapters is explicitly shown. Significantly, the authors use both the quantitative study of global medical tourism trends and the qualitative Delphi approach to provide a thorough grasp of the subject.

One of the worlds most seasoned international relations experts updates and revises his far-sighted 1999 book arguing that the Cold War did not, in fact, end with the collapse of the USSR and that the US, Russia and China today are locked anew in a spiral of hostilities.

Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.First published in 2009 under the title Whats so eastern about Eastern Europe?, this book is much more than a revised and updated version of the first edition. Its presentation of the political and cultural history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, written in an accessible language is now complemented with recent developments in the region. The new edition digs into the reasons behind the illiberal turn in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere, putting the alleged democratic backslide into the wider context of European populism. Leon Marc offers a new and fresh perspective in explaining the roots of populism and social conservatism in the region, which the book sees in a mixture of historical factors, economic conditions, the heavy burden of Communist legacy, as well as a reaction to contemporary social developments in the West. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book calls for more sensibility to these underlying causes, critical examination of the true European values, and for a coalition of defenders of Humanism and Judeo-Christian tradition as key pillars of its identity, in order to save Europe and its liberal democracy.This updated and expanded edition contains a brand new chapter bringing this book up to date with recent events, including Covid-19 and the Ukrainian conflict.

O livro definitivo sobre o declínio da diplomacia americana por um dos grandes repórteres atuais.Em uma investigação fascinante pelos corredores do poder em Washington, passando por lugares como Afeg

Geoffrey Prime was a Soviet spy throughout the most intense years of the Cold War. The linguist served his paymasters for almost fourteen years and became the most important Russian mole in British signals intelligence since German Enigma decryptions were leaked from Bletchley Park during World War Two. Recruited while serving in Berlin with the Royal Air Force, he became uniquely placed to betray his countrys innermost secrets when he later obtained employment at the nerve-centre of government communications, GCHQ. By various clandestine methods of transcription and meetings overseas with his controllers, Prime divulged information on a massive scale until shortly before his arrest. His eventual downfall lay in an inability to control his lust for pre-pubescent girls and the conscience of a wife unable to live with the knowledge that her husband was not only a child molester but also an espionage agent. This is an involved story of debased morality and dishonour, siezed upon by an unscrupulous regime to its own advantage, and unearthed by unsuspecting provincial detectives in a tale of a police investigation on an unprecedented scale.

Glyphosate is everywhere. The worlds most widely sold pesticide is present in farmland, fields and rivers. We eat it in bread, drink it in beer and carry it in our bodies. No problem, say the authorities responsible for its approval and the manufacturers, the weed killer has been thoroughly examined and is safe. Not true, says the WHOs own cancer research agency which classified the pesticide as a "probable human carcinogen" in 2015. But if the WHO cancer researchers found "sufficient evidence" of a carcinogenic effect, how could the licensing authorities fail for decades to find "any signs" in the same animal studies?The search for answers leads the author of this investigative and enthralling book into official U.S. archives from the 1970s and 80s, and on to the documents being used in the current European approvals process. The details of the secret studies by Monsanto & Co. which this research brings to light provide unsettling insights into the entanglements between industry, private testing institutions and the regulatory authorities. They expose a system which allows the chemical manufacturers to downplay the risks of their products. In the end the question remains: do our governments offer greater protection to commercial interests, or to our health?

Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. espionage is not just a boys game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 191418 there were several thousand women actively working against the Kaisers forces occupying their homelands. In the Second World War, women of many nations opposed the Nazis, risking the firing squad or decapitation by axe or guillotine. Yet, many of those women did not have the right to vote for a government or even open a bank account. So why did they do it?Female Secret Agents explores the lives and the motivations of the women of many races and social classes who have risked their lives as secret agents, and celebrates their intelligence, strength and courage.

SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature. - The St Ermins Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2014Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War. In the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result, signallers and cryptographers in the Admiraltys famous Room 40 paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global signals intelligence during the world wars through original interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US and Russian cryptographers.

O que significou o advento da República para as relações internacionais do Brasil? Com base nesse problema, Clodoaldo Bueno procura mostrar quais foram os interesses nacionais que passaram a sensibil

A sensational affair.. carried out with great audacity - New York Times. An astonishing act of piracy, the capture of the British war ship, the Upnor changed the course of Irelands Civil War. Flawless in its planning and execution, while Winston Churchill remarked on Irish genius for conspiracy, a furious Michael Collins accused the British of deliberately arming his enemies. Indeed, its highly likely that the bullet that killed him originated in the Upnor.The Ballycotton Job brings this riveting story to life, its cast of disparate characters and strands of adventure beautifully woven together. This book sees events leading up to the capture as well as the consequences of the Upnor seizure discussed in detail. Based on years of archival research, it tells a unique story of both sides, Irish and British. The books fast-paced narrative is enlivened by dialogue and details obtained from interviews with participants.Ireland teetered on the verge of civil war, the IRA splitting into anti-Treaty and pro-Treaty stance, Michael Collins and the Provisional Government on the pro-Treaty side. Corks Sean OHegarty, the local anti-Treaty IRA leader, prevented Collins National Army from entering the city. As the British evacuated soldiers and equipment back to England, OHegarty came up with a brilliant plan to capture the munitions en route. Commandeering a tugboat from the Royal Navy base at Queenstown/Cobh, they sped out of the fortified harbour on a mission. Simultaneously, over eighty trucks and lorries were hijacked all across Cork, leaving citizens mystified as to what was going on.In a clever ruse, the IRA squad captured arms ship Upnor, bringing it into the small port of Ballycotton. The village, now under the control of IRA fighters, witnessed the unloading of weaponry onto waiting lorries then driven off to secret arms dumps throughout Cork. OHegartys men seized eighty tons of arms, subsequently distributed to southern IRA divisions during the Civil War. This audacious act of piracy caused a sensation. A field day for the newspapers, The Irish Independent called it an amazing exploit; The Timesa clever and daring coup.

This account of the first major forum to review relations between Britain and Egypt, held in London in 2006, demonstrates how political, economic and cultural interaction between the countries has developed since the Suez invasion of 1956. In addition to providing a historical assessment, it suggests ways forward in both bilateral and international contexts. Egyptian and British contributors include government ministers and specialists in history, economics, Egyptology, business, education, culture and international affairs. Contributors include: Roger Owen, Hugh Roberts, Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, Heba Handoussa, Fekri Hassan, Yousry Nasrallah and Penelope Lively.

La justicia del siglo actual en el que nos encontramos no es una justicia que deba olvidarse de unos procedimientos adaptados a la evolución social, además de salvaguardar los derechos que se han denominado derechos humanos de cuarta generacion, que se relacionan con las tecnologias, el desarrollo cientifico, la inteligencia artificial y la futura digitalizacion de la sociedad, en la que se han elaborado textos como es la Carta de Derechos Digitales, como un marco de referencia para garantizar los derechos en un escenario de ciudadania marcado por la era digital, y con la finalidad precisamente de que dicho escenario no suponga una infraccion de los derechos fundamentales de los sujetos...