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This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America. It examines how global and regional power shifts impact on the evolution of regional institutions as well as on state policies adopted in response to regional security challenges such as border conflicts, political instability, migration, drug-trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. Contributions to this volume analyze the topic from three angles: power dynamics and its effects on regional security governance; the contribution of regional institutions to the management of security challenges; and the impact of power dynamics on states' shifting security priorities. Written by specialists from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Europe, the chapters weave theory and case studies to provide a rich description of the impact of power and politics on regional security in Latin America. This book is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Latin American politics, regional cooperation, and war and conflict studies, as well as international security and international relations in general.

En el mejor de los casos, el nacionalismo no es más que un sueño narcisista, soportable con humor y paciencia. Pero el separatismo suma al nacionalismo la subversión que destruye la democracia vigente. Se puede convivir con el nacionalismo, pero no hay mas remedio que defenderse del separatismo y plantarle cara. Lo hemos visto en Euskadi, ahora en Cataluña: unos cuantos quieren robar a la mayoria parte de la soberania nacional, que no pertenece a ningun territorio sino a todos los ciudadanos libres e iguales. Este panfleto sin complejos ni miramientos defiende la sede historica de nuestros derechos: lo que aun se llama España.

«¿A dónde llevará al país y a millones de mexicanos el Gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador? ¿Sobrevivirá México a la destrucción en marcha?».Roberto Madrazo reflexiona sobre estas preguntas y señ

Using a new analytical framework this book examines the history and politics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces It is indispensable for students and researchers of climate politics and anyone interested in the IPCC

Francisco es conserje en una escuela rural de Villahermosa, Tabasco, y en su tiempo libre hace trabajos de plomería para sobrellevar su precaria situación económica. Lo paradójico es que Francisco tambien es el dueño de una empresa privada que gano un contrato por 500 millones de pesos. Esta es una de las estrategias que PEMEX, SEDESOL y la SEP, entre otras dependencias de gobierno involucradas en este fraude monumental, han utilizado para desviar mas de 7 000 millones de pesos desde 2010. Cada semestre, la UNAM gasta 73 000 pesos por alumnos de licenciatura en promedio. El dinero desaparecido serviria para pagar la carrera completa de 26 000 estudiantes. ¿Como lo han hecho? Dependencias gubernamentales asignan presupuesto a universidades publicas, estas otorgan contratos a empresas fantasma, los servicios nunca se realizan y cantidades multimillonarias desaparecen. El cinismo que aqui se asoma indigna en lo mas profundo pues, hasta el dia de hoy, despues de dos gobiernos federales, miles de millones de pesos perdidos y una impunidad sin precedentes, esa maquinaria sigue funcionando. Los autores profundizan y actualizan la investigacion periodistica que da a conocer uno de los mas descarados fraudes en la historia de Mexico.

The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics as cultural practice. The book has three aims: to develop an anti-foundational theory of the state; to develop a new research agenda around the topics of rule, rationalities, and resistance; and by exploring empirical shifts and debates about the changing nature of the state to show how anti-foundational theory leads us to see them differently. Bevir and Rhodes argue for the idea of 'the stateless state' or the state as meaning-in-action. So, the state is neither monolithic nor a causal agent. It consists solely of the contingent actions of specific individuals; of diverse beliefs about the public sphere, about authority and power, which are constructed differently in contending traditions. Continuity and change are products of people inheriting traditions and modifying them in response to dilemmas. A decentred approach explores the limits to the state and seeks to develop a more diverse view of state authority and its exercise. In short, political scientists need to bring people back in to the study of the state.

This book examines the challenges that ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members need to overcome in order to sustain and intensify economic growth. The ASEAN market is widely regarded as a new hub of growth, not least in light of increasing protectionism and declining economic growth of the three largest countries in Northeast Asia (China, Japan, and South Korea). Contributors address a range of issues with a concentrated focus on evidence from Indonesia, including globalisation, increasing populism, trade, FDI, the benets of the production network, and related issues such as spill-over, crises, innovation and technology, and selected sectoral commodity and policy analysis of Indonesia. This book analyses and explains the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment, and technical changes, with regard to improving productivity in the supply-side economic growth model using, in particular, Indonesia as the de facto leader of ASEAN. This book will be of interest to academics and students specialising in international economics and international development.

This book highlights the main features of the economic, commercial, political, fiscal and financial systems of each of the ASEAN countries from a domestic and an international point of view. Moreover, it analyses the most relevant international treaties signed by ASEANs members. Published after the 50th anniversary of ASEAN to promote the association, the book is a valuable tool for practitioners who are interested in developing economic activities or investments in this area.

The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80 95 per cent by 2050 and how or whether the EU s 2050 objective to decarbonise could affect the EU s relations with a number of external energy partners

The reality of the Arab-Israeli military balance now consists of two subordinate balances: Israel versus Syria and Israel versus the Palestinians. This book analyses these two balances in detail and their impact on defence planning in each country and on the overall strategic risk to the region as a whole. It covers military developments in each of six states - Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine - and provides an analytical view with charts and tables of how the changing natures of the military and political threats faced by each is affecting its military force readiness and development. The author has included the most comprehensive data on past, current, and future military force structure currently available, drawn from the widest range of sources. Responding to the most recent events in the region, this book is the first to deal with the effects on the Arab-Israeli military balance of the strategic uncertainty created by the Iraqi insurgency and the Iranian nuclear programme.It also studies how the Gaza pullout, the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, the changing political landscape in Israel, and the threat of nuclear proliferation are having an impact on the Egyptian-Israeli and Jordanian-Israeli peace accords, and the prospects for a settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. The roles of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are analysed in light of the changing political landscape in both Israel and Palestine. The author also explores the ways that internal instability in Lebanon could escalate into a regional conflict.

Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filling a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly changing society.China''s economic reforms have been accompanied by a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions, booming black markets and rampant corruption. This has resulted in the rise of extra-legal means of protection and enforcement: such is the demand for protection that cannot be fulfilled by state-sponsored institutions. This book develops a new socio-economic theory of mafia emergence, incorporating Granovetter''s argument on social embeddedness into Gambetta''s economic theory of the mafia, to suggest that the rise of the Chinese mafia is primarily due to the negative influence of guanxi (a Chinese version of personal connections) on the effectiveness of the formal legal system. This interplay has two major consequences. First, the weakened ability of the formal legal system sees street gangsters (the ''Black Mafia'') providing protection and quasi law enforcement. Second, it allows for escalating abuse of power by public officials; as a result, corrupt officials (the ''Red Mafia'') sell public appointments, exchange illegal benefits with businesses and protect local gangs. Together, these outcomes have seen street gangs shift their operations away from traditional areas (e.g. gambling, prostitution and drug distribution), whilst corrupt public officials have moved to offer illegal services to the criminal underworld, including the safeguarding organized crime groups and protection of illegal entrepreneurs.A study of crime and deviance located within a fast growing economy, The Chinese Mafia offers a unique understanding of these activities within contemporary Chinese society and a new perspective for understanding the interaction between corruption and organized crime. It will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, sociology, and political science, with particular interest for those researching China and Chinese politics and governance.