La polarización política en Estados Unidos

orígenes y actualidad de un conflicto permanente

Una lección magistral sobre las bases de la política norteamericana. El sistema institucional de Estados Unidos, uno de los más admirados del mundo, lleva tiempo dando señales de mal funcionamiento. Las hostilidades políticas tuvieron como resultado la presidencia de Donald Trump y la irrupción de ...

El mundo según China

En pocos años, el tamaño de la economía china superará a la de Estados Unidos, su población ya es cuatro veces mayor y su desventaja militar se está reduciendo con mucha rapidez. En Pekín se considera que el cambio en el equilibrio de poder será ...

Afghanistan

a cultural and political history

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces ...

The Koreas

the birth of two nations divided

What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today. Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal human ...

The modern presidency

six debates that define the institution

This book offers an accessible and compelling guide to the American presidency by exploring a series of key questions. How powerful is the American presidency, and to what extent is presidential power dependent on persuasion? Do the personal qualities of presidents drive events, or does ...

Invisible China

how the urban-rural divide threatens China's rise

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and ...

China coup

the great leap to freedom

An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'état mounted by rivals in ...

The rise and fall of imperial China

the social origins of state development

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall ...

From development to democracy

the transformations of modern Asia

Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven't Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world's ...

Weak strongman

the limits of power in Putin's Russia

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies-and ...

Imitation democracy

the development of Russia's post-Soviet political system

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule." How did this system take shape, how else might it have ...

Foxconned

imaginary jobs, bulldozed homes, and the sacking of local government

Powerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide. When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker stood shoulder to shoulder with President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at the White House ...

Mao and markets

the Communist roots of Chinese enterprise

A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao It was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside, that free markets ...

Xi-na en el siglo del dragón

lo que todos deben saber sobre China

'¿Qué quiere China?' es, según Michael Schuman, 'la mayor pregunta del siglo XXI'. Ello no debería sorprender, tratándose del país más poblado y la mayor economía del planeta. ¿Cómo ha llegado el antiguo Imperio del Centro a posicionarse en esta categoría? ¿Será éste, cómo dicen ...

El gobierno de los Estados en la República Norteamericana

El Estado americano es un organismo particular, diferente de cualquier otro de Europa o del antiguo mundo. El único paralelo se encuentra en los cantones de Suiza, de la Suiza actual, pues hasta 1815, o, mejor quizá, hasta 1848, Suiza era, más bien que una ...

The China questions. 2

critical insights into US-China relations

Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today's US-China relationship. For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does ...

Dancing on bones

history and power in China, Russia and North Korea

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles ...

Covid-19, calidad democrática y parlamentos

una visión comparada

La pandemia de la Covid-19 ha supuesto para los Estados democráticos de Derecho un auténtico stress test sobre la capacidad de ofrecer respuestas rápidas, oportunas y flexibles a retos sociales y económicos sin precedentes, sin poner en peligro el equilibrio de la separación de poderes ...

China: amenaza o esperanza

La realidad de una revolución pragmática

China ha experimentado una colosal transformación en los últimos treinta años. Un gigantesco cambio para el que, sin embargo, no hay apenas espacio en los medios de comunicación occidentales. Un Estado que está cerca de desbancar a EEUU como primera potencia económica, que ha sacado ...

El país más feliz del mundo

Corea del Norte bajo el puño de hierro de Kim Jong-un

La muerte de Kim Jong-il pilló al mundo por sorpresa. Sobre su sucesor, un joven de apenas treinta años y educado en el extranjero, recaían la responsabilidad de continuar el legado de la dinastía personalista de los Kim y la sombra de la duda sobre ...