Fascism

the career of a concept

What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried ...

Transnational fascism inthe Twentieth Century

Spain, Italy and the global neo-fascist network

Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed understanding of the history of fascism. Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth Century allows us to consider the global fascist network that built up over the course of the 20th ...

Fascism

an introduction to comparative fascist studies

The word 'fascism' is used so frequently in journalism and social media that it sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political Right, from Hitler to Donald Trump, and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that ...

Antropología de las formas políticas de Occidente

Esta nueva obra de Fernando Oliván es fiel a una de las constantes más destacadas de sus libros: procurar un análisis de la política que, lejos de ser superficial o falsamente erudito, persigue desentrañar cuáles son sus fundamentos últimos. En este caso la clarividencia que ...

Globalists

the end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink ...

Republics of the new world

the revolutionary political experiment in 19th-Century Latin America

A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on ...

Patriotism

From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one chooses where they were born, and our ethicalobligations transcend national boundaries, then does patriotism make any sense ...

To dare more boldly

the audacious story of political risk

Ten lessons from history on the dos and don'ts of analyzing political risk Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling ...

Constitucionalismo y democracia

Los once ensayos reunidos en este volumen muestran los enfoques de diversas ciencias sociales ante la democracia, un fenómeno que parece haber triunfado como la forma natural de organización política en los países occidentales. Asimismo, una idea en estrecha relación con la democracia es abordada ...

Democracy and ontology

agonism between political liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis

This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly influential paradigm ...

History and politics

remembrance as legitimation

History and politics are interlinked with unbreakable bonds, as is manifested primarily in the use of historical arguments in political disputes. Regardless of the ideological views represented, time period, and geographical location, politicians consistently and frequently use such arguments with a high degree of effectiveness ...

Ideologías políticas en la cultura de masas

Ideologías políticas en la cultura de masas es un análisis riguroso de la presencia de múltiples ideologías políticas en el contexto de la cultura de masas y su matriz generadora: los medios de comunicación. En este sentido, el proyecto conecta con una larga tradición de ...

Estudios sobre la libertad en América

de la Federación Republicana al desafío igualitario de la democracia

Ricardo Cueva Fernández es doctor en Derecho por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) con la tesis "De los niveladores a Marbury vs. Madison: la genésis de la democracia constitucional", publicada por el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) en el año 2011 y ...

A Macat analysis of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

he Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hobsbawm's vision is important - he was a lifelong Marxist whose view of history was ...

A Macat analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism: ordinary life in extraordinary times Soviet Russia in the 1930's

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the 'deserving poor' can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding ...

Perdidos

los planes secretos del Club Bilderberg

¿Quién se ha quedado nuestro dinero? ¿Quién dirige nuestra política e instituciones? ¿Los despidos y recortes se deciden desde aquí o se pactan desde despachos en la otra punta del mundo? ¿Existe una mano invisible, férreamente organizada, que ha creado una crisis artificial con un ...

A Macat analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority: an experimental view

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination - casting new light on ...

Hablemos de Imperialismo hoy

Hablemos de Imperialismo hoy reúne las ponencias de Guglielmo Carchedi, Joan Tafalla y Ramon Franquesa presentadas en unas jornadas sobre el imperialismo celebradas en Barcelona. Para los tres autores, el imperialismo hoy se esconde tras esa palabra: globalización. Y es que el capitalismo es un ...

Teoria politica

Nuova serie. Annali VII

In questo numero. Nei prossimi numeri. Invito a contribuire This Issue. Next Issues. Call for contributions Populismi Populism Yves Mény, De la frustration démocratique au populisme. Du populisme à la radicalisation droitière Loris Zanatta, Populismi di sinistra? Il caso dell'America Latina Roberto Escobar, Le ...

Memoria del comunismo

de Lenin a Podemos

Buceando en las fuentes originales -de Marx, Bakunin y Lenin al Che o Pablo Iglesias-, este libro explica la naturaleza real del comunismo, sus raíces filosóficas y políticas, los errores habituales sobre su historia y el hecho más terrible: que, cien años y cien millones ...