George Soros es atacado de forma constante debido a su incansable y valiente compromiso con la sociedad abierta, los derechos humanos, la libertad de prensa y la democracia liberal. La extrema derecha, los antisemitas, los politicos nacionalistas populistas y defensores de las teorias de la conspiracion son solo algunos de sus detractores.En este brillante libro reune una coleccion vital de sus conferencias y escritos, algunos ineditos, que tratan sobre una amplia gama de temas oportunos: los peligros que representa la inteligencia artificial en manos de gobiernos autoritarios como China y Rusia; lo que Soros llama su filantropia politica; la historia de las Open Society Foundations y de la Central European University (una de las mejores instituciones en ciencias sociales en el mundo y un bastion de la defensa de la libertad academica); su teoria sobre el auge y caida de los mercados financieros y sus implicaciones politicas, y las amenazas que enfrenta hoy la Union Europea.La agudeza de Soros es un claro y energico llamado a defender los ideales de la sociedad abierta, tan amenazados hoy en dia.

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment.Little, however, is known about what each country can learn from experiences in other countries.This study provides novel insight on this important policy issue by- discussing the role of the European Commission's Employment Strategy- reviewing the experiences made in European states- and giving the first ever quantitativeassessment of the existing cross-country evidence, answering the question "what labor market program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?".Using an innovative meta-analytical approach, the authors find that rather than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type that matters for program effectiveness: While direct employment programs in the public sector appear detrimental, wage subsidies and "Services and Sanctions" can be effective in increasing participants' employment probability.

This book showcases fifty-five structured analytic techniques-five new to this edition-that represent the most current best practices in intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security, and business analysis. With much more depth, detail, and utility than existing handbooks, each technique is clearly and systematically explained. Logically organized and richly illustrated, and with spiral binding and tabs that separate techniques into categories, this book is an easy-to-use, comprehensive reference.

La Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales es hoy una disciplina científica plenamente consolidada en la historiografía y en las ciencias sociales….

Del despertar de la Europa de las nacionalidades a la situación mundial en 1945, la obra de Renouvin constituye el más amplio y ambicioso despliegue en el logrado intento de escribir una historia política y diplomática de las relaciones -y tensiones- internacionales en los dos últimos siglos.

Historia de la política exterior española en los siglos XX y XXI presenta un ambicioso análisis de los elementos que han condicionado la política exterior española desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Se abordan cuestiones como el poco conocido papel de España en la I Guerra Mundial, la transformacion de su politica exterior en los antiguos territorios coloniales, el papel que ha tenido el comercio, la energia, la cultura, la opinion publica, en la configuracion de la politica exterior en los distintos periodos historicos, hasta llegar a la posicion española ante los conflictos y cambios del nuevo orden internacional.Esta obra colectiva, completa y plural, cuenta entre sus autores con historiadores, politologos, diplomaticos, juristas, politicos en activo, militares y periodistas. Entre ellos figuran Jose Maria Beneyto, Juan Carlos Pereira, Rafael Calduch, Raimundo Bassols, Francisco Jose Berenguer, Juan Manuel Fernandez Fernandez-Cuesta, Jose Antonio Lisbona y Florentino Rodao, entre muchos otros.A lo largo de sus 39 capitulos, esta obra ofrece las claves para entender los debates mas actuales. Desde el papel de España como actor en la Union Europea hasta su aproximacion a actores emergentes como China o Brasil. Nuevos retos que, como expresa Marcelino Oreja en el prologo de la obra, requieren una mirada al pasado para entender como se ha llegado, de acuerdo con un equilibrio de intereses, valores y consensos, a la politica exterior española del siglo XXI.

A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence explains the newest form of intelligence used by governments, commercial organizations, and individuals. Geospatial intelligence combines late 20th century historically derived ways of thinking and early 21st century technologies of GIS, GPS, digital imaging satellites and communications satellites to identify, measure, and analyze the current risk in the world.These ways of thinking have developed from military engineering, cartography, photointerpretation, and imagery analysis. While the oldest example dates back to the early 16th century, all the ways of spatial thinking share the common thread of being developed and refined during conflicts to help military leaders make informed decisions prior to action. In the 21st century thanks in great part to advances in digital precision technology, miniaturization, and the commercialization of satellites these ways of thinking have expanded from the military into various other industries and sectors including energy, agriculture, environment, law enforcement, global risk assessment, and climate monitoring.

With this second edition of Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, Randolph H. Pherson and Katherine Hibbs Pherson update their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions that all analysts must ask themselves as they prepare to conduct research, generate hypotheses, evaluate sources of information, draft papers, and ultimately present analysis. New material includes a chapter on working with statistics and probabilities at an introductory level; discussions on how to work with social media; managing the "big data" phenomenon and what role analysis plays both at the front and back end of utilizing such information.Each of the book's chapters are consistently organized, enabling students and analysts alike to easily trace the key steps of: Setting the Stage; Looking More Deeply; Key Takeaways; Considering the Case Study, and the book's illustrations include useful graphics that diagram and display the processes and structured analytic techniques for arriving at the best possible analytical products. The "Analyst's Roadmap" provides an at-a-glance "map" for readers depicting the best practices involved in perfecting the analytical product. A set of carefully crafted case studies on national intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement issues illustrate how to apply these critical thinking skills tie directly to end-of-chapter questions, providing valuable self-assessment opportunities.

Since 9/11, the needs of intelligence agencies as well as the missions they conduct have increased in number, size, and complexity. As such, government and private security agencies are recruiting staff to analyze the vast amount of data collected in these missions. This textbook offers a way of gaining the analytic skills essential to undertake intelligence work. It acquaints students and analysts with how intelligence fits into the larger research framework. It covers not only the essentials of applied research, but also the function, structure, and operational methods specifically involved in intelligence work. It looks at how analysts work with classified information in a security conscious environment as well as obtain data via covert methods. Students are left with little doubt about what intelligence is and how it is developed using scientific methods of inquiry.This revised edition of the popular text has been expanded and updated significantly.

Esta innovadora obra ofrece una visión de conjunto e interdisciplinar de 651 conceptos seleccionados, explicados de forma rigurosa, didáctica y clara. De la mano de 13 expertos y un buen número de colaboradores (juristas, historiadores, militares, politologos, economistas y geografos), se facilita una herramienta basica para entender los acontecimientos pasados y presentes de la sociedad internacional. Este diccionario se destina tanto al publico especializado de las diversas disciplinas interesadas en las relaciones internacionales, como a cualquier persona inquieta por temas internacionales o de la politica exterior de los estados.

Esta innovadora obra ofrece una visión de conjunto e interdisciplinar de 651 conceptos seleccionados, explicados de forma rigurosa, didáctica y clara. De la mano de 13 expertos y un buen número de colaboradores (juristas, historiadores, militares, politologos, economistas y geografos), se facilita una herramienta basica para entender los acontecimientos pasados y presentes de la sociedad internacional. Este diccionario se destina tanto al publico especializado de las diversas disciplinas interesadas en las relaciones internacionales, como a cualquier persona inquieta por temas internacionales o de la politica exterior de los estados.

This fourth edition of Hedley Bull's most systematic and fundamental work marks the 35th anniversary of its original publication. The book includes a substantial new foreword by Andrew Hurrell examining the continuing relevance of The Anarchical Society to developments in theory and in the structures and practices of world politics.

International negotiations have become an increasingly widespread feature of international affairs, as the number of parties involved have grown, and regional and global fora have multiplied. Cecilia Albin examines the role of considerations of justice and fairness in these negotiations. She argues that negotiators do not simply pursue their narrow interests or those of their countries, but regularly take principles of justice and fairness into account. These principles come into play at an early stage, as talks are structured and agendas set; in the bargaining process itself; and in the implementation of and compliance with agreements. The analysis is based on cases in four important areas: the environment; international trade; ethnic conflict (the Israeli-Palestinian conflict); and arms control. Drawing on a mass of empirical data, including a large number of interviews, this book relates the abstract debate over international norms and ethics to the realities of international relations.

El tema general del libro puede sintetizarse como la necesidad de que los académicos, los políticos y la gente de la calle tengan en cuenta las complejas variables de las relaciones que existen hoy --entre más de 5.000 millones de personas, 180 países (naciones-Estado) y 10.000 organizaciones internacionales-- con el fin de que se entienda la ""situación global"" contemporánea y a efecto de que se llegue a juicios y a decisiones inteligentes respecto a los asuntos internacionales.La última edición de este texto aparece precisamente en un momento especial que corresponde al cambio de milenio y cuando el siglo XX pasa a la historia y cede a su paso a un nuevo siglo... En pocas palabras, esta nueva edición intenta acercarse más a los grandes dramas que hoy tienen lugar entre las fuerzas del globalismo y el regionalismo, el nacionalismo y el transnacionalismo, la seguridad y el bienestar, el orden y el cambio.

La política exterior de España está de actualidad. La participación española en la coalición internacional que ha declarado la guerra a Irak y el cambio de rumbo que el gobierno español ha dado a la politica exterior, cuyos fundamentos se habian ido estableciendo desde 1976, han provocado un debate amplio en la sociedad y los partidos politicos como no se recordaba desde 1982 y 1986. 33 profesores diplomaticos e investigadores españoles abordan conel rigor necesario y con gran claridad expositiva, las bases teorico-metodologicas, los factores condicionantes, los escenarios geohistoricos y el propio desarrollo historico por epocas, desde 1800 hasta la actualidad.

A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends theoretically grounded, rigorous analysis with empirical illustrations, to provide a state-of-the art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. The contributors to this volume offer a 360-degree perspective on ethnic conflict: from the theoretical foundations of nationalism and ethnicity, to the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, and to the various strategies adopted in response to it. Without privileging any specific explanation of why ethnic conflict happens at a specific place and time or why attempts at preventing or settling it might fail or succeed, the Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict enables readers to gain better insights into such defining moments in post-Cold War international history as the disintegrations of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and their respective consequences and the genocide in Rwanda, as well as the relative success of conflict settlement efforts in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, and Aceh. By contributing to understanding the varied and multiple causes of ethnic conflicts and to learning from the successes and failures of its prevention and settlement, the Handbook makes a powerful case that ethnic conflicts are neither unavoidable nor unresolvable, but rather that they require careful analysis and thoughtful and measured responses.

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance for the study of contemporary elections, voters and parties.Most importantly this volume gives scope to new areas such as consociational democracies, small island states, and newly democratising Eastern and Central European and Third World countries.