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 ...

Vicisitudes del Derecho internacional

A lo largo de los cinco artículos contenidos en este volumen de Pre-Textos, el profesor Eric Tremolada utiliza debates de actualidad para introducir nociones básicas de derecho internacional. Por eso, Vicisitudes del derecho internacional se erige, por un lado, como texto esencial para el estudiante ...

La política exterior mexicana ante la nueva doctrina Monroe, 1904-1907

El corolario Roosevelt fue la nueva interpretación a la doctrina Monroe, que en 1904 elaboró el presidente Theodore Roosevelt y que planteó la posibilidad de que Estados Unidos ejerciera un papel de policía internacional en el continente americano. Este trabajo estudia la presencia del del ...

Un pacto global

la alternativa socialdemócrata al consenso de Washington

Globalización y orden internacional

Investigación para la paz y resolución de conflictos

La protección de las inversiones exteriores

(los acuerdos de promoción y protección recíproca de inversiones celebrados por España)

The new imperial order

indigenous responses to globalization

International cooperation in Social Security

how to cope with globalisation?

El Derecho internacional ante las migraciones forzadas

refugiados, desplazados y otros migrantes involuntarios

Las crisis de la globalización

marco teórico y estudio de los casos de México y Corea del Sur

Global justice reform

comparative methodology

Global Justice Reform provides a trenchant critique and creative conceptual reconstruction of two neglected subjects: the nature of comparison in the field of comparative law and the struggles of national judicial systems to meet global rule of law objectives. Hiram Chodosh offers a candid look ...

Gibraltar

british or spanish?

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1: Introduction 2: British Gibraltar (1704-1963) 3: Gibraltar Incommunicado (September 1963 - October 1979) 4: The Lisbon Agreement (July 1979 - April 1980) 5: Spain's approaches to NATO (June 1980 - March 1982) 6: 'Different and distant'?: the Falklands/Malvinas dispute (April - June 1982 ...

Peligros presentes

soluciones de la nueva administración Bush ante una civilización amenazada

El lector tiene en sus manos los capítulos centrales del grueso volumen Peligros Presentes, auténtica « biblia » para los intelectuales y políticos neoconservadores que sostienen al Gobierno Bush. La revolución neoconservadora basa su discurso en una elaborada línea de pensamiento y en un discurso ideológico que ...