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Now in its third edition, this unique textbook remains a favourite for introductory undergraduate courses in comparative politics. It features twelve theoretically and historically grounded country studies that show how the three major concepts of comparative analysis - interests, identities, and institutions - shape the politics of nations and regions. Written in a style free of heavy-handed jargon and organized to address the concerns of contemporary comparativists, this textbook provides students with the conceptual tools and historical background they need to understand the politics of our complex world. This third edition introduces completely new chapters on the European Union, France, and Nigeria.

A generous and varied selectionthe only hardcover edition availableof the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwells famous discussion of pacifism, My Country Right or Left; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in Shooting an Elephant; and his very firm opinion on how to make A Nice Cup of Tea.In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideashis desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in languageare as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.

Why have some developing countries industrialized and become more prosperous rapidly while others have not? Focusing on South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria, this study compares the characteristics of fairly functioning states and explains why states in some parts of the developing world are more effective. It emphasizes the role of colonialism in leaving behind more or less effective states, and the relationship of these states with business and labor in helping explain comparative success in promoting economic progress.

Cet ouvrage tente de circonscrire les questions que le cursus universitaire rassemble sous le vocable « géopolitique ». Il constitue un effort de conceptualisation d'un champ de recherche qui a gagné

Dividida en cuatro grandes secciones, la primera se ocupa de las diferentes concepciones históricas sobre las relaciones internacionales. La segunda parte está dedicada al medio internacional y analiza los diversos factores (natural, tecnico, demografico, economico e ideologico) que lo definen. Los Estados, las organizaciones intergubernamentales y las fuerzas transnacionales, actores de esas relaciones, son estudiados en la tercera seccion. La ultima parte esta dedicada a la descripcion de la estructura y funcionamiento del sistema internacional.

Pedro Lozano BartolozziLa gravedad de la crisis que estremece al mundo desde el ataque integrista contra New York y Washington, y la reacción de EEUU y sus aliados contra el terrorismo, iniciada con las acciones en Afganistan, aumenta el interes del publico por un mejor conocimiento del sistema internacional. A esta inquietud responde este libro. Se analiza el Complejo Relacional Internacional como sistema comunicativo, considerando los distintos planteamientos doctrinales, la estructura y dinamica de los actores, factores y medios de la vida internacional y su marco juridico e informativo. Habla sobre la evolucion de los principales hechos que han ido tejiendo las relaciones internacionales desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el final del siglo XX. El estudio abarca las relaciones internacionales en total, tanto desde su consideracion teorica como practica, incluye sucesos a escala planetaria y viene a llenar un obvio hueco en la bibliografia española en este campo de los estudios internacionales.

Cuenta la dramática historia de la construcción del México moderno. A medida que el autor va desgranando su detenido análisis de las causas de la enorme división entre ricos y pobres, va subrayando tambien el flagrante contraste entre el corrupto sistema politico del pais y las aspiraciones democraticas de su pueblo. La esperanza de Mexico esta definida por la conviccion de que hoy dia las perspectivas mas prometedoras del pais descansan en la exigencia de justicia y democracia por parte de sus capas mas empobrecidas a partir de la insurreccion zapatista en Chiapas y de los esfuerzos electorales de la izquierda.

The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors beyond the states of ASEAN and the key interactions that have evolved over time, which have been instrumental in moving regional mechanisms beyond the ASEAN way.The book argues that the ASEAN way has not been impervious to change. As the association finds its way through periods of crises and continues to confront the many challenges ahead, ASEAN and its mechanisms are already being transformed beyond the narrow confines of the modalities associated with the ASEAN way. The changes in the political and security landscape of the region, as well as the democratic transitions taking place in some member states, have set the stage for a much more dynamic set of regional actors and processes that bring into question the kind of regionalism that is now taking place in the region.

of Comparative Politics supplies a framework that enables students to navigate and organize the material they will encounter in the courseand to make increasingly sophisticated comparisons between actual countries. In the first chapter, Patrick O''Neil explains the basic methodologies of comparative politics, discusses current issues and debates in the field, and introduces two themes that will inform the textthe importance of institutions to all political systems and the fundamental struggle between freedom and equality. The subsequent chapters are organized thematically, beginning with the basic concepts of politicsthe state, nations and society, and political economyand building to discussions of the challenges facing different types of political systems today. Throughout, Professor O''Neil incorporates analysis of the transformative events of recent historyamong them the fall of communism, the accelerating spread of democracy, the economic growth of Asia, globalization, and responses to the attacks of September 11th 2001.

In this, his most systematic and fundamental work, Hedley Bull explores three key questions: what is the nature of order in world politics?; how is it maintained in the contemporary state system?; and what alternative paths to world order are feasible and desirable? He argues that the system of sovereign states is not in decline and is not an obstacle to world order but its essential foundation. This third edition, marking the 25th anniversary of original publication, includes a substantial new foreword by Andrew Hurrell examining the continuing relevance of "The Anarchical Society" to subsequent developments in theory and in the structures and practices of world politics.

El arrebatador y angustioso testimonio de una mujer valiente. La fuerza de sus ideas y la intensidad de sus palabras en una entrevista a sí misma que completa y enriquece el discurso iniciado con "La Rabia y el Orgullo" y desarrollado con "La Fuerza de la Razon".Un discurso que, partiendo de las reflexiones sobre el cancer moral e intelectual de Occidente, pone al descubierto la obtusa ferocidad del terrorismo islamico, su guerra contra nuestra civilizacion.Cuando aparecio en las librerias italianas con el titulo "Oriana Fallaci entrevista a Oriana Fallaci" (ahora modificado por "Oriana Fallaci se entrevista a si misma"), el primer medio millon de ejemplares se agoto en media jornada. El otro medio millon lo hizo en las tres ediciones sucesivas.Ampliada y enriquecida con numerosos y amplios añadidos sobre hechos y personajes de nuestros dias (vease el fascinante y sorprendente sobre Bin Laden en Beirut) esta edicion contiene tambien un extraordinario Post-Scriptum que en realidad es otro libro. La Fallaci le ha puesto incluso un titulo aparte: "El Apocalipsis".

La Guía del Mundo es una perspectiva rigurosa, documentada y única que nos revela, el pretérito y el devenir de este exigente siglo XXI.

La segunda edición de Corrupción y gobierno actualiza el libro de Susan Rose-Ackerman de 1999 con el fin de abordar temas emergentes y repensar viejas cuestiones a la luz de nuevos datos. El libro analiza la explosion de trabajos de investigacion que se produjo tras la caida del muro de Berlin, la fundacion de Transparencia Internacional y la decision del Banco Mundial de dar a la politica anticorrupcion un lugar clave en su agenda. El tiempo ha reivindicado el enfasis de Rose-Ackerman en la reforma institucional como condicion necesaria para que se produzcan avances significativos. El libro se ocupa de los sobornos rutinarios y de la corrupcion en la contratacion publica y la privatizacion. Presta especial atencion a la corrupcion politica y a las herramientas de rendicion de cuentas. Las autoras han ampliado el tratamiento de la cultura como fuente de corrupcion enquistada y han añadido capitulos sobre Derecho penal, organizaciones criminales y sociedades que emergen del conflicto. El libro explora las condiciones nacionales que existen para emprender reformas y analiza las iniciativas internacionales tanto las politicas anticorrupcion explicitas como los esfuerzos por disminuir el lavado de dinero.