Globalization challenged

conviction, conflict, community

In "Globalization Challenged", George Rupp addresses the standoff between traditional conviction and Western secular individualism and argues that neither position is viable. Instead of insisting that religion and its ideological equivalents only express private preferences, Western secularism must acknowledge their legitimate role in influencing public ...

A theory of foreign policy

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches - which assume that states want to maximize security - by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance ...

Prima lezione di storia delle relazioni internazionali

INDICE: Introduzione # I. La storia delle relazioni internazionali: origine, metodo e definizioni # II. Dalla storia diplomatica alla storia delle relazioni internazionali # III. La storia delle relazioni internazionali # Bibliografia.

Fifty key thinkers in international relations

Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Realism Raymond Aron Edward Hallett Carr Robert Gilpin John Herz George Kennan Henry Kissinger Stephen Krasner Hans Morgenthau Susan Strange Kenneth Waltz Liberalism Norman Angell Charles Beitz Michael Doyle Francis Fukuyama David Held John Hobson Stanley Hoffmann Richard Rosecrance Woodrow ...

The trouble with Africa

why foreign aid isn't working

After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the ...

The roman predicament

how the rules of international order create the politics of empire

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history ...

EU international relations Law

In the post-9/11 world, the European Union has been trying to define its international presence in a way which corresponds to its economic power and enlarged membership. In an effort to assert its identity on the international scene, it has developed a very wide ...

The EU as a global player

the politics of interregionalism

This book offers a new look at the European Union's role as a global actor, with special focus on the theme of interregionalism in its relations with key regions around the world: Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Central- Eastern Europe. This new ...

La guerra ineguale

pace e violenza nel tramonto della società internazionale

La forma della guerra non è mai estranea alla convivenza internazionale, e ciò vale in particolare per l'attuale contesto storico. Che sia in atto una crisi delle regole della guerra basterebbe a provarlo la mancanza di consenso nella comunità internazionale su chi abbia diritto ...

Expert political judgment

how good is it? how can we know?

The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong ...

China modernizes

threat to the west or model for the rest?

Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and to the economies ...

Displacement, asylum, migration

The Oxford amnesty lectures 2004

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and ...

El Derecho internacional humanitario

ante los retos de los conflictos armados actuales

El contenido de esta obra comprende las diversas respuestas que ofrece el Derecho Internacional Humanitario ante los retos de los conflictos armados contemporáneos, tando desde la óptica de la protección integral de las víctimas de la guerra como de los mecanismos de eficacia de las ...

La declaración de guerra en el ordenamiento jurídico español

(un mecanismo de control jurídico de la participación del Estado español en conflictos armados)

La participación del Estado español en conflictos armados ha encontrado siempre el rechazo de los ciudadanos. Pese a ello, los gobiernos de turno no han tenido problemas en adoptar las decisiones que han considerado oportunas, incluso en abierta contradicción con la regulación del derecho internacional ...

Preemption

a knife that cuts boht ways

Every so often, a startling book emerges that gives voice to a new or previously unexamined societal trend. Alan M. Dershowitz's provocative new work, "Preemption", is just such a book, chronicling a paradigm shift in America's approach to controlling destructive conduct. As he ...

El desafío de la criminalidad organizada

Un año más, los alumnos de Derecho Penal de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Salamanca convocan a sus compañeros de las distintas Universidades hispanas a reflexionar juntos sobre los problemas actuales del Derecho Penal. Este año, el denominador común de las distintas ...

Al Qaeda

raíces y metas del terror global

La amenaza que representaba una organización terrorista como Al Qaeda, perfectamente jerarquizada y con el mando centralizado de Osama bin Laden, ha sido relevada por la emergencia de un movimiento yihadista globalizado de una morfología inquietante. Las democracias occidentales se enfrentan hoy a un complejo ...

Dirty deaking

the untold truth about global money laundering, international crime and terrorism

Highly organised gangs, from the Italian Mafia to the Japanese Yakuza, infiltrate every corner of the globe: and money laundering is at the heart of their business. "Dirty Dealing" exposes the awesome scale and scope of global money laundering and its filtration into the world ...

Cosas de la cosa nostra

El rigor profesional de magistrados e investigadores es el factor esencial para que la mafia comprenda que Sicilia no es el patio de su casa y servirá por tanto para neutralizar la insolencia y arrogancia del mafioso ante la autoridad del Estado. Puedo afirmar que ...

Derecho internacional y Tratado Constitucional Europeo

Este volumen, en el conjunto de sus valiosas colaboraciones, analiza el contenido del Tratado constitucional sobre el que hay que volver como al texto fundamental de la fase "constituyente" y presenta sus importantes logros y sus oscuridades e insuficiencias. A todos quienes creemos, una vez ...