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Decidido a establecer un ejército moderno y eficaz, Carlos III diseñó un plan que atendiera a la formación especializada de los mandos de los oficiales y a la configuración de un marco normativo que armonizara la inculcacion en la tropa de valores como la obediencia, el sacrificio o el servicio, con la practica profesional modelada de los hombres de armas en sus diferentes empleos jerarquizados. El resultado fueron las "Reales Ordenanzas para el Regimen, Disciplina, Subordinacion y Servicio de sus Exercitos", sancionadas en San Lorenzo el Real el 22 de octubre de 1768. Este texto legal, celebre por su autoridad de contenido, reconocimiento y permanencia, no en vano ha resistido dos siglos de vigencia, se compone de dos tomos y ocho tratados con sus correspondientes titulos y articulos, completados e iluminados con interesantes laminas y dibujos sobre la formacion y despliegue del batallon en orden de batalla, de parada y de fuego, mientras otras se refieren a los movimientos del escuadron de caballeria o a pormenorizar la funcionalidad del cuerpo de ingenieros. Incluye una addenda elaborada por Antonio Alonso Molinero, General Director de la Academia de Artilleria de Segovia, Sabino Fernandez Campo, Academico de Numero de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas, y Emiliano Gonzalez Diez, Catedratico de Historia del Derecho de la Universidad de Burgos. El facsimil se ha encuadernado en piel natural sobre tapa rigida.

This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system. It begins with a discussion of the nature of this change, emphasizing declining national sovereignty, escalating international interdependence, and proliferating anarchic conflict. After developing a framework of the conceptual components of national security, this study focuses on analyzing change--both in priorities and tradeoffs--in military security, economic security, resource/environmental security, and political/cultural security. Brief case studies of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1991 Maastricht Treaty, the 1992 Earth Summit, and the ongoing Yugoslavia conflict illustrate the theoretical contentions. Finally, a set of crucial, fundamental security policy challenges and responses conclude the book.Mandel takes upon himself a daunting challenge: redefining national security in the post-Cold War era. He seeks to provide a conceptual analysis and framework for security studies in a future that has few historical guidelines. His book will complement both university and private libraries. It is a well-researched and well-written piece. In addition, it will be a provocative text for graduate seminars and classes in security studies. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty.

Ian DavisThis study analyses the reasons for and the broad implications of the post-cold war reforms of arms and dual-use export controls within the European Union. It conceptualizes the arms export policy process as a policy system, involving the interaction of three basic elements-the policy environment, policy stakeholders and public policies. Three national case studies (the UK, Germany and Sweden) explore the major problems and paradoxes of practical regulatory activity. The differences in their approaches, including variations in the export control criteria, controlled goods, decision-making bodies, licensing decisions and enforcement procedures, are rooted in each state's unique historical normative framework. Evidence is also presented of policy convergence within the EU as a whole. While COCOM was the main instrument of convergence during the cold war, the most significant instrument of convergence in the 1990s was EU integration.The main conclusions are that the process of European integration in the 1990s led to a significant but incomplete convergence of the three states' arms and dual-use export controls; convergence has gone further for dual-use technologies than for military goods; convergence accelerated during the late 1990s as a result of the introduction of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports and common measures to combat illicit trafficking in small arms; convergence is more advanced for policy-making structures than for policy-execution structures; and further convergence can be expected in the next decade

Se trata de un comentario ágil y exhaustivo de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, cumplidos quince años de su entrada en vigor. Incorpora las reformas, ciertamente sustanciales, que durante este tiempo la han afectado. Al hilo del comentario sistematizado, se expone la doctrina científica y jurisprudencial sobre la materia y se hace especial referencia a las modificaciones operadas por la Ley 54/2003, de 12 de diciembre (de reforma del marco normativo de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales), la Ley 31/2006, de 18 de octubre (sobre implicación de los trabajadores en las sociedades anónimas y cooperativas europeas), la Ley Orgánica 3/2007, de 22 de marzo (para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres) y la Ley 25/2009, de 22 de diciembre (de modificación de diversas Leyes para su adaptación a la ley sobre el libre acceso a las actividades de servicios y su ejercicio), así como al numeroso desarrollo reglamentario, incluyendo el Real Decreto 67/2010, de 29 de enero, de adaptación de la legislación de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales a la Administración General del Estado. Para la elaboración de esta monografía se ha reunido un excepcional elenco de especialistas en Derecho de la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales. De su mano se afronta el comentario individualizado de cada uno de los artículos y disposiciones que integran la norma. La facilidad de consulta que proporciona esa metodología se acompaña de una vasta exposición de la interpretación de los Tribunales, y las opiniones doctrinales. Los ingredientes señalados garantizan la extraordinaria utilidad de un libro pensado para el profesional (empresarios, trabajadores, responsables de los servicios de prevención, Administraciones Públicas, etc.) que requiere una información jurídica rigurosa, ágil y completa. Tanto por esas circunstancias cuanto por la colección en que se integra, la obra nace con la vocación de convertirse en una referencia inexcusable en este ámbito del Derecho social, cuya relevancia aumenta día a día.

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.