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México en riesgo: Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva
By Jorge Carrillo Olea. 2011
Jorge Carrillo Olea, controvertido protagonista y testigo de la vida política nacional, ofrece su visión sobre hechos relevantes que determinaron…
el curso de la historia contemporánea de nuestro país, así como un análisis sobre cómo desembocaron en la actual crisis de seguridad nacional. Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva. Jorge Carrillo Olea, pionero en el estudio de la seguridad nacional y de los servicios de inteligencia en México, ocupó diversas posiciones privilegiadas durante cuatro sexenios -Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid y Carlos Salinas- tanto por sus cargos públicos como por la proximidad que mantuvo con los titulares del Ejecutivo. En consecuencia, pudo observar desde la barrera de primera fila cómo se ha gobernado esta nación: con todos sus ritos, dogmas, valores, angustias, delirios, esperanzas, aciertos y equívocos. Sin duda, en la trayectoria profesional del autor hay muchos episodios insospechados y otros que necesitan aclararse, cosa que él mismo hace en esta obra. Entre otros sucesos, nos explica cómo fue usado el Estado Mayor el 2 de octubre de 1968; la peripecia para rescatar a Echeverría en la UNAM cuando fue agredido por los estudiantes; el papel que desempeñó México durante el golpe de Estado en Chile; el asesinato de Manuel Buendía en 1984; los momentos críticos que se vivieron tras el terremoto de 1985; la caída del sistema en 1988; el operativo donde aprehendieron a Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán en 1993; los pormenores de su gubernatura en Morelos y la pugna a muerte con Ernesto Zedillo. Tales elementos, en conjunto, le permiten a Carrillo Olea extraer valiosas conclusiones y hacer un ajuste de cuentas para conducir la reflexión hacia el crítico momento actual. En esa medida, el propósito del libro no consiste en esbozar una suerte de memorias, se trata más bien de hacer un riguroso análisis sobre el Estado mexicano y los problemas que afronta a partir de una clave fundamental: la seguridad nacional, condición esencial para la construcción de un proyecto de país que los gobiernos posrevolucionarios de cualquier orientación siempre menospreciaron.Aunque me tires el puente: Memoria oral de la batalla del Ebro
By Gabriel Cardona, Juan Carlos Losada. 2004
Los testimonios de los protagonistas de la batalla del Ebro, el mayor enfrentamiento armado librado sobre el suelo de la…
península Ibérica durante la Guerra Civil. La batalla del Ebro fue el mayor enfrentamiento armado librado sobre el suelo de la península Ibérica durante la Guerra Civil. Con ella culminaron, prácticamente, las grandes operaciones militares y provocó una hecatombe parecida a las de los combates de las dos guerras mundiales. Durante cinco meses, enfrentó a miles de hombres, que emplearon las más perfeccionadas máquinas de matar entonces disponibles. Sin olvidar la indudable trascendencia política y militar de esta batalla, los autores, reconocidos expertos en historia militar española, han preferido centrarse en los avatares personales, los sentimientos, las penas y esperanzas de los soldados que sirvieron en el frente del Ebro. Las fuentes de su trabajo han sido las cartas de guerra, las canciones, la memoria oral... testimonios, en definitiva, mucho más sugestivos y evocadores que los documentos oficiales y las frías estadísticas.Contemporary historians have transformed our understanding of the German military in World War II, debunking the “clean Wehrmacht” myth that…
held most soldiers innocent of wartime atrocities. Considerably less attention has been paid to those soldiers at the end of hostilities. In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier. As Echternkamp shows, public controversies around these topics helped to drive the social processes that legitimized the democratic postwar order.ETA. Las claves de la paz: Confesiones del negociador
By Jesús Eguiguren, Luis Rodríguez Aizpeolea. 2004
Un relato único de los diez últimos años que precedieron al final del terrorismo de ETA y cuya lectura ofrece…
las claves para entender su aún sorprendente resultado. El fin del terrorismo de ETA ha sido uno de los objetivos fundamentales de las cuatro décadas de democracia española. Se logró el 20 de octubre de 2011, en los estertores del Gobierno de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Desde entonces, el terrorismo de ETA, que asesinó en su siniestra historia a más de 800 personas, ha dejado de actuar, aunque quedan pendientes su desarme y disolución. ¿Cuáles son las verdades claves del final histórico del terrorismo? ¿Qué papel desempeñaron los intentos de negociación, pese a su fracaso, en el final de ETA? ¿Cómo se conjugó el diálogo con la acción policial y judicial? ¿Cómo fue la rebelión del brazo político de ETA contra la banda? ¿Qué papel desempeñó el PP, entonces en la oposición? ETA, las claves de la paz relata ese final de la mano del periodista Luis Rodríguez Aizpeolea, que cuenta con un testigo excepcional, el presidente de los socialistas vascos, Jesús Eguiguren, representante del Gobierno socialista en las conversaciones con ETA que lo facilitaron. El libro arranca con las conversaciones secretas entre Eguiguren y el representante de la izquierda abertzale, Arnaldo Otegi, en el caserío guipuzcoano de Txillarre el año 2000, en plena ofensiva etarra contra cargos políticos socialistas y populares, y termina con la declaración de ETA del cese definitivo del terrorismo, once años después. El libro narra con todo lujo de detalles las conversaciones que protagonizó Eguiguren, primero con Otegi y luego con ETA. Tras la ruptura del proceso de diálogo por parte de ETA con el atentado de la T-4 de Barajas, el relato se adentra en el nuevo escenario creado, la presión gubernamental para que la izquierda abertzale decida entre «votos o bombas», en palabras del entonces ministro del Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. ¿Fueron útiles esas conversaciones para el final del terrorismo? ¿La necesaria acción policial y judicial hubiera sido suficiente para acabar con el terrorismo?Perdonen las molestias: Crónica de una batalla sin armas contra las armas
By Fernando Savater. 2001
Este libro es la crónica de una batalla sin armas contra las armas. Desde el asesinato de Miguel Ángel Blanco…
hasta nuestros días, reúne los artículos -a la vez combativos y explicativos- publicados por Fernando Savater sobre el terrorismo nacionalista en el País Vasco, así como el debate polémico de sus habituales justificaciones ideológicas. Es un testimonio juntamente reflexivo y apasionado del compromiso cívico de un intelectual ante la violencia. Pero con frecuencia estos breves ensayos van más allá de las circunstancias del terrorismo en el País Vasco y configuran una meditación necesaria sobre el sentido de la democracia moderna, los derechos de la ciudadanía, la defensa del Estado garantista en Europa y las extralimitaciones de algunos guardianes demasiado celosos, etc. Una perspectiva diferente para quienes no se sientan indiferentes.Russian Politics and Response to Globalization
By Lada V. Kochtcheeva. 2020
This book analyzes the nature of Russia’s involvement with globalization. To date, Russia has mainly followed a course of selective…
openness governed by an increasingly strong state pursuing self-determination and its own vision of strategic objectives and forms of cooperation, rather than the projected reproduction of global convergence. It is also a country that is believed to be finding a new place and position for itself in the evolving global order, where European and American reflections shape the treatment of contemporary questions concerning Russia’s status in the world. The book highlights the problems and conflicts associated with political developments, democratization, economic reforms, and innovation, as well as societal perceptions and national identity formation. The world is shifting, with Russia developing its own vision of global politics and cultivating a pragmatic strategy based on national interest, one that supports globalization where necessary and opposes it where conflicts of interest and values are inevitable.Cuerpo a cuerpo: Cómo son y cómo piensan los políticos españoles
By María Antonia Iglesias. 2010
Cuerpo a cuerpo no es solo un libro de entrevistas a políticos de todos los partidos, de todas las ideas.…
Es el resultado de una apasionante aventura: la de aproximarse a los personajes sin máscaras. Para preguntar, para escuchar, para comprender. María Antonia Iglesias no es solo una gran entrevistadora, es una mujer que, desde su papel de periodista, intenta descubrir la realidad saltando por encima de los prejuicios y de los lugares comunes. En Cuerpo a cuerpo se reúnen sus mejores entrevistas, en su mayoría políticas, un subgénero condenado por su propia naturaleza a responder al día a día. Sin embargo, las de María Antonia Iglesias superan los márgenes de la actualidad para convertirse en el retrato de un personaje y de un momento de nuestra historia reciente. Quizá eso sucede porque aplica de forma generosa y constante una misma metodología, la que ella misma nos cuenta en la introducción de su libro: «Escuchar para aprender, para comprender. Éste ha sido el sentido último de las entrevistas que he publicado en El País en los últimos diez años y de las que he seleccionado para este libro las cien que mejor resumen el reto de enfrentar al personaje consigo mismo. Lograr que los entrevistados (políticos en su gran mayoría, que se blindan tanto) digan en alta voz aquello que piensan, pero que no tenían intención de decir, persuadirlos para que abandonen la posición defensiva y disfruten, incluso, con la verdad de sus reflexiones más recónditas. Ése era siempre mi objetivo en ese cuerpo a cuerpo a veces duro, estimulante siempre, en el que siempre también he buscado la verdadera inteligencia con el otro.»María Antonia IglesiasThe creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past…
as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? No one knows the answers to such questions, but no one asks them in a more interesting way than Dan Carlin.In The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.Combining his trademark mix of storytelling, history and weirdness Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colorful ways. At the same time the questions he asks us to consider involve the most important issue imaginable: human survival. From the collapse of the Bronze Age to the challenges of the nuclear era the issue has hung over humanity like a persistent Sword of Damocles.Inspired by his podcast, The End is Always Near challenges the way we look at the past and ourselves. In this absorbing compendium, Carlin embarks on a whole new set of stories and major cliffhangers that will keep readers enthralled. Idiosyncratic and erudite, offbeat yet profound, The End is Always Near examines issues that are rarely presented, and makes the past immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.With the increase of globalization of business and industry IT products and services are often produced and marketed across…
geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration of culture There is a high probability that IT products and services developed in one country may not be effectively used in another country which may hinder their market penetration sales and use Based on research and practice Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services provides a resource for human factors engineers designers and marketing professionals who define and develop IT products and services for the global market With its extensive review of cross-cultural theory and cross-cultural design literature it is also a resource for those who are interested in research on cross-cultural design The book presents an overview of the dimensions of culture that have implications for human information processing and affective response It examines a set of user interface design guidelines grouped into five areas language use of color icons and images navigation and information architecture Also it addresses physical ergonomics and anthropometry issues The text translates theory and guidelines into a practical methodology and discusses how to integrate methods of cross-cultural design into a standard engineering process for product development The authors review and reappraise theories models principles and techniques for design of IT products and services that will be marketed globally They provide guidelines for user interface design across North American Asian and other cultures Applying the guidelines within the methodological framework provided will enhance the usability and effectiveness of the IT product or service and contribute to greater user satisfaction increased productivity higher sales and lower product support costsA Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump
By David Plouffe. 2020
A voter's playbook on making a difference in the 2020 election and beyond from the most recognized and most successful…
political strategist in the countryIf you've asked yourself the question, what more can I do to make sure Donald Trump does not continue to occupy the Oval Office on January 20, 2021?--then this book is for you. A playbook for the common citizen, A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump addresses the many things individuals can do in 2020 every day, without having to leave their jobs, move to Iowa, or spend every waking moment on the election. In A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump, Plouffe's message is simple: the only way change happens, especially on scale, is one human being talking to another. It won't happen magically, it won't happen because of debates and conventions, it won't happen because of ads. It will happen because citizens take action. And Plouffe is here to help, with specific strategies and tailored talking points to make sure your time and energy aren't wasted. He lays out why different activities the average citizen can take can make a difference to getting to 270 electoral votes, how people can go about doing them and examples of where it's worked in the past. There are at least 65 million Americans who are likely committed to voting against Trump. It is entirely in our control to grow that number and make sure the support materializes in actual votes. Plouffe arms us with advice on how to defend against misinformation online, how to create and spread content, how to register and get out the vote early, how to make a difference in the battlegrounds and how to stay involved after the big election. Filled with stories from the last sixteen years, both successes and failures, as well as political strategies that have evolved in the wake of the breakthrough campaign that Plouffe masterminded, A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump is a pragmatic, specific, and very motivational guide for the path forward. A New York Times BestsellerMisunderstanding International Relations: A Focus on Liberal Democracies
By Scott Burchill. 2020
This book examines the ways in which the study and practice of international relations are misunderstood, both by scholars and…
politicians. It begins by examining critical errors in reasoning and argument which determine the way key issues in the field are discussed and explained. It then explores a number of case studies which are affected by these errors, including the legal status of the modern nation-state, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the idea of the Deep State, the relationship between the West and radical Islam, the impact of moral righteousness on historical understanding, and the role of class in modern Western politics.Wirtschafts- und Organisierte Kriminalität (essentials)
By Karlhans Liebl. 2020
In diesem essential wird versucht folgende Fragen zu beantworten, Zusammenhänge aufzuzeigen und damit auch Forderungen nach einer verbesserten Strafverfolgung zu…
begründen: Was verbirgt sich nun hinter der Wirtschaftskriminalität und Organisierter Kriminalität? Wie sehen die auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene verübten Tathandlungen aus, welchen Umfang haben sie und wo liegen die Probleme für die Strafverfolgung? Die Neuauflage wurde vollständig auf den neuesten Stand hinsichtlich der Entwicklung und des Umfangs der beiden Kriminalitätsschwerpunkte überarbeitet. Gleichzeitig wurde noch ein Teil, der sich speziell mit der Korruption befasst mit aufgenommen.This volume is devoted to the geographical—or spatial—aspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population…
composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigations of the role of population in related fields such as climate change and economic growth. If spatial aspects of economic growth and development are the flagship of the regional science discipline, population research is the anchor. People migrate, consume, produce, and demand services. People are the source and beneficiaries of national, regional, and local growth and development. Since the origins of regional science, demographic research has been at the core of the discipline. Contributions in this volume are both retrospective and prospective, offering in their ensemble an authoritative overview of demographic research within the field of regional science.Freedom, Peace, and Secession: New Dimensions of Democracy (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)
By Burkhard Wehner. 2020
This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning. It analyzes problems…
in the nation-state system and assesses current issues regarding separatism and secession movements. Drawing on extensive research in the fields of political theory, democracy studies and social welfare, the book develops a framework of new rules on a fundamental level that can help nations overcome conflicts concerning borders and nationalities.Chinese Marriage and Social Change: The Legal Abolition of Concubinage in Hong Kong
By Max Wl Wong. 2020
This book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis…
of the factors leading to – and the debates surrounding – the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971. It uses this law as a platform to examine how the existence of concubinage – long preserved in the name of protecting Chinese traditions and customs — crucially influenced family law reforms, which were in response to a perceived need to create a ‘modern’ marriage system within Hong Kong’s Chinese community after the Second World War. This was, by and large, the result of continued pressure from within Hong Kong and from Britain to bring Hong Kong’s marriage system in line with international marriage treaties. It represented one of the last significant intrusions of colonial law into the private sphere of Hong Kong social life, eliminating Chinese customs which had been previously recognised by the colonial legal system’s family law. This book contextualizes the Hong Kong situation by examining judicial cases interpreting Chinese customs and the Great Qing Code, offering a comprehensive understanding of the Hong Kong situation in relation to the status of concubines in Republican China and other East Asian jurisdictions. It will be of particular interest to teachers and students of law, as well as researchers in gender studies, post-colonialism, sociology and cultural studies.Analytical Issues in Trade, Development and Finance: Essays in Honour of Biswajit Chatterjee (India Studies in Business and Economics)
By Ambar Nath Ghosh, Asim K. Karmakar. 2014
The book s 30 chapters are divided into three sections - international trade economic development macroeconomics and finance…
- and focus on the frontier issues in each Section I addresses analytical issues relating to trade-environment linkage capital accumulation for pollution abatement possibility of technology diffusion by multinational corporations nature of innovation inducing tariff protection effects of import restriction and child labour the links between exchange rate direction of trade and financial crisis--the implications for India and global economic crisis financial institutions and global capital flows and balance of payments imbalances Section II consists of discussions on the causes of widespread poverty persisting in South Asia development dividend associated with peace in South Asia issues of well-being and human development implications for endogenous growth through human capital accumulation on environmental quality and taxation the rationale for a labour supply schedule for the poor switching as an investment strategy the role of government and strategic interaction in the presence of information asymmetry government s role in controlling food inflation inter-state variations in levels and growth of industry in India structural breaks in India s service sector development and the phenomenon of wasted votes in India s parliamentary elections Section III deals with the effectiveness of monetary policy in tackling economic crisis the effective demand model of corporate leverages and recession the empirical link between stock market development and economic growth in cross-country experience in Asia an empirical verification of the Mckinnon-Shaw hypothesis for financial development in India the dynamics of the behaviour of the Indian stock market efficiency of non-life insurance companies econometric study of the causal linkage between FDI and current account balance in India and the implications of contagious crises for the Indian economyPartizipation für alle und alles?: Fallstricke, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten
By Astrid Lorenz, Uwe Hitschfeld, Christian Pieter Hoffmann. 2020
Basierend auf einer Darstellung herausfordernder Projekte, diskutiert der Band Grenzen der politischen Partizipation in Deutschland und identifiziert Erfolgsfaktoren. Zunächst rücken ausgewählte Projekte…
in das Blickfeld, bei denen Bemühungen um mehr Partizipation nicht immer zum gewünschten Ergebnis führten. Grenzen der Beteiligung im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden systematisch analysiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund arbeiten mehrere Beiträge schließlich Erfolgsfaktoren für Partizipation heraus. So entsteht ein fundiertes Bild von Beteiligung als kommunikatives Verfahren der Integration und kollektiven Entscheidungsfindung aus Sicht von Wissenschaft und Praxis.Im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs über politische Bildung lässt sich seit etwa dreißig Jahren eine starke Betonung empirischer Forschung feststellen. Durch die…
Entwicklung systematischer empirische Forschung hat sich zugleich die Frage nach der theoretischen Begründung der Politikdidaktik neu gestellt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes untersuchen die Wissensvermittlung als eine Hauptaufgabe des Politikunterrichts. Sie verbinden sie mit individuellen Merkmalen wie der Motivation, unterrichtlichen Determinanten wie der Unterrichtsqualität und Kontextfaktoren wie dem Migrationshintergrund. Die theoretischen und empirischen Entwicklungen haben zu einer Ausdifferenzierung der Politikdidaktik und zu einem neuen Blick auf die Praxis des Politikunterrichts geführt.Biokunststoffe unter dem Blickwinkel der Nachhaltigkeit und Kommunikation: Status quo, Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen
By Hans-Josef Endres, Marina Mudersbach, Hannah Behnsen, Sebastian Spierling. 2020
Das Buch zeigt, wie eine Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Biokunststoffen gelingen kann und wie die Ergebnisse einer solchen Bewertung ausfallen. Es analysiert…
die öffentliche Wahrnehmung beim Verbraucher sowie die politischen Rahmenbedingungen von Biokunststoffen.Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country
By E. J. Dionne Jr.. 2020
"An exquisitely timed book ... Code Red is a worthwhile exploration of the shared goals (and shared enemies) that unite…
moderates and progressives. But more than that, it is a sharp reminder that the common ground on which Dionne built his career has been badly eroded, with little prospect that it will soon be restored.” —The New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America’s future for the 2020 presidential election. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity since the New Deal Era to strengthen American democracy, foster social justice, and turn back the threats of the Trump Era?The United States stands at a crossroads. Broad and principled opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency has drawn millions of previously disengaged citizens to the public square and to the ballot boxes. This inspired and growing activism for social and political change hasn’t been seen since the days of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and the Progressive and Civil Rights movements. But if progressives and moderates are unable—and unwilling—to overcome their differences, they could not only enable Trump to prevail again but also squander an occasion for launching a new era of reform.In Code Red, award-winning journalist E. J. Dionne, Jr., calls for a shared commitment to decency and a politics focused on freedom, fairness, and the future, encouraging progressives and moderates to explore common ground and expand the unity that brought about Democrat victories in the 2018 elections. He offers a unifying model for furthering progress with a Politics of Remedy, Dignity, and More: one that solves problems, resolve disputes, and moves forward; that sits at the heart of the demands for justice by both long-marginalized and recently-displaced groups; and that posits a positive future for Americans with more covered by health insurance, more with decent wages, more with good schools, more security from gun violence, more action to roll back climate change.Breaking through the partisan noise and cutting against conventional wisdom to provide a realistic look at political possibilities, Dionne offers a strategy for progressives and moderates to think more clearly and accept the responsibilities that history now imposes on them. Because at this point in our national story, change can’t wait.