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.

Oil wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations documents the critical relationship between oil rents and federal conflicts by illustrating key concepts with six representative cross regional case studies Each case study discusses encompasses qualitative quantitative and comparative elements under a common structure With each petrofederation ranging in conflict types and modalities the work as a whole identifies key differences including oil rent decentralization in terms of resource property sector management and distribution of revenues sectoral importance considered at national and subnational levels and federation redistribution policy in terms of fiscal federal imbalance fiscal equalization and oil rent use for regional equity Collectively the book generalizes a consistent theory of causality between oil rents and federal conflicts that take into account systemic variables The book s conclusions will serve as a guide for researchers and policymakers seeking pathways to translate oil rents into development and stability

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.

In June 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm Sweden This event also known as the Stockholm Conference was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society Fifty years later we find ourselves in a world marked by profound accelerating and possibly irreversible environmental change Today there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth s biosphere and life upholding systems This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity s own making It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come The 50 year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imag

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.

This book examines the influence of international public administrations on global politics in the Anthropocene Combining theoretical and empirical methods it is an indispensable resource for students researchers and practitioners in environmental policy and politics This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

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 books 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 books illustrations include useful graphics that diagram and display the processes and structured analytic techniques for arriving at the best possible analytical products. The Analysts 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.

Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate up to date and unbiased understanding of the world s most pressing environmental issues for more than thirty years The ninth edition continues this practice by covering critical new developments in global environmental politics and policymaking

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.

No major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia yet it is unprepared for the global transition away from hydrocarbons Thane Gustafson shows that as Russia s income shrinks its economy will stagnate even as global warming imposes growing costs on society By mid century its power will fade reordering global politics