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This history of NATO concentrates on the differences within the alliance, particularly between the United States and its European partners. NATO''s war against terrorism began on September 11, 2001. Invoking Article 5 was a fitting response to the assault on the United States, but the spirit did not last long. Within a few weeks, old fissures within the alliance re-emerged, threatening once again to dissolve an entity that had survived over half a century. In the first two generations of NATO''s existence, the Cold War with the Soviet Union had been its major purpose. But since the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and of the Russian Empire itself, NATO has struggled to seek new raisons d''etre, and has succeeded to some degree in finding them in crisis management in Europe and in areas beyond the boundaries of the alliance. The absence of a traditional enemy to serve as a centripetal force, along with the recognition of the United States as the lone superpower, has placed a focus on internal troubles of the alliance that had been obscured in the past by the presence of a common enemy. Too little attention has been paid to such West-West conflicts that arguably have been more frequent and more bitter, if not more dangerous, than the struggle with the Soviet Union. Differences among the allies began with the formation of the alliance itself. Some were resolved, others persisted. Many of them related to "out of area" issues in which the Soviet Union was not involved or only peripherally concerned. How the alliance managed the unequal relationship in the past may offer insights into the common ground the alliance partners can identify in the 21st century.

George GmelchBehind the Smile is an inside look at the world of Caribbean tourism as seen through the working lives of 21 men and women who work in the tourist industry in Barbados. The workers come from every level of tourism, from maid to hotel manager, beach gigolo to taxi driver, red cap to diving instructor. Moving through the various sites in which "hosts" and "guests" meet airport, hotel, beach, and tourist attractions these highly personal accounts offer insight into complex questions surrounding tourism. The narratives touch on issues such as how race shapes interactions between tourists and workers, how tourists may become agents of cultural change, the meaning of sexual encounters between locals and tourists, and the real economic and ecological costs of development through tourism. George Gmelch offers an engaging introduction to the history of tourism in the Caribbean and recent research on tourism, development, and cross-cultural communication. This lively book will intrigue students, scholars, and all readers interested in the social and cultural aspects of travel.

En esta obra, compuesta de dos volúmenes, la autora invita al lector a explorar las bases culturales políticas y religiosas de Europa en clave jurídica, desde la interdisciplinariedad y el desafío que plantea a Europa el modelo politico-juridico contemporaneo. Un analisis que no puede ignorar elementos como la autoridad, el poder, las ideologias, o la instrumentalizacion de la religion, entre otros. En este primer volumen dedicado al Legado cultural que recibe Europa: de la Antiguedad al paradigma imperial cristiano, la autora afronta en su primera parte el estudio de tres elementos culturales esenciales, su funcion comunitaria y su interaccion en la Antiguedad: el templo, el gobernante y el derecho. Tres elementos muy desarrollados en las grandes civilizaciones mesopotamicas, sirio-palestinas y egipcia, que la civilizacion grecolatina asimila, integra y modifica en parte, a lo largo de distintas etapas historicas de retroalimentacion cultural. En la segunda parte se analiza el origen y desarrollo del paradigma imperial cristiano y del paradigma pontificio cuando el cristianismo niceno triunfa como la religion oficial y exclusiva del Imperio Romano. La confrontacion entre ambos paradigmas, que aspiran a controlarse reciprocamente, los desgastara en el ejercicio del poder, y canalizara la emergencia de otros modelos politicos y religiosos en la Europa medieval al amparo del paradigma humanista cristiano. Un proceso en el que tanto la instrumentalizacion de la religion en el ambito politico, como la funcion del derecho en el ejercicio del poder, han dado como resultado el legado politico, religioso y juridico europeo. Un viaje intelectual a nuestra historia comun con datos y propuestas novedosas que analizan los planteamientos estereotipados, desde una relectura juridica, social y cultural en la que se ofrecen al lector numerosas claves para realizar su propia reflexion critica.

This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas Mores classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkiens Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.

Études philosophiques : La Peau de chagrin - Jésus-Christ en Flandre - Melmoth réconcilié - Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu - Gambara - Massimilla Doni - La Recherche de l'absolu - L'Enfant maudit - Adieu - Les Marana - Le Réquisitionnaire - El Verdugo - Un Drame au bord de la mer. Édition de Pierre-Georges Castex avec la collaboration de Thierry Bodin, Pierre Citron, Madeleine Fargeaud, Henri Gauthier, René Guise et Moïse Le Yaouanc, 1856 pages, rel. peau, 105 x 170 mm. Collection Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (No 42) (1979), Gallimard -rom.

Marx (1818-1883) n'a cessé depuis un siècle d'être au co-eur des luttes idéologiques du monde contemporain. Génie multiforme, il est à la fois le philosophe qui renverse la philosophie idéaliste de Hegel (La Sainte Famille, 1845), l'historien des révolutions (Les Luttes de classes en France, 1850), le pamphlétaire qui donne au prolétariat une doctrine, l'économiste du Capital et l'un des fondateurs de l'Internationale. Mais sous sa dispersion apparente, son o-euvre n'a jamais qu'un seul but, la quête des contradictions de la société capitaliste et des moyens de leur résolution.

Marx (1818-1883) n'a cessé depuis un siècle d'être au co-eur des luttes idéologiques du monde contemporain. Génie multiforme, il est à la fois le philosophe qui renverse la philosophie idéaliste de Hegel (La Sainte Famille, 1845), l'historien des révolutions (Les Luttes de classes en France, 1850), le pamphlétaire qui donne au prolétariat une doctrine, l'économiste du Capital et l'un des fondateurs de l'Internationale. Mais sous sa dispersion apparente, son o-euvre n'a jamais qu'un seul but, la quête des contradictions de la société capitaliste et des moyens de leur résolution.