Captura del Estado, macrocriminalidad y derechos humanos

¿Es la guerra contra el terrorismo lanzada por Bush y llevada a cabo implacablemente por la maquinaria bélica estadounidense la respuesta coherente de un análisis racional del mundo contemporáneo, o la expresión atávica de un terror pánico que no cuestiona en absoluto los fundamentos mismos de nuestro pacto con la realidad brutal del capitalismo contemporáneo? ¿De qué formas se acomodan la crítica y la política progresistas de los países avanzados -confortablemente instalados en una división insalvable de riqueza, poder y seguridad respecto al Sur global- a la realidad pétrea...

Parties are the major actors of political representation in democracies. They have been acknowledged repeatedly as the critical link between voters, representatives and guarantors of democratic governance. Without them, a democracy can hardly be said to exist because they are the principal links between government and society. However, parties can lose their representative capacity, and be challenged by disaffected electorates that pursue other alternatives for political involvement. This book focuses upon the electoral weakening of Latin America's traditional parties. These parties dominated ...

Vivimos una época en la que los Estados reivindican la memoria histórica. Ideas como el liberalismo y el socialismo han sido contrarrestadas por la recuperación del pasadocomo fundamento en las decisiones geopolíticas. La historia, revalorizada y mitificada, sirve hoy para apuntalar las identidades nacionales ante la globalización, pero su esencia pasional también entraña peligros. La venganza de la historia es un concepto necesario para comprender las relaciones internacionales que determinarán nuestro futuro.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and privately issued quasi-monies. Industry now collects as much as 70 percent of its receipts in nonmonetary form, leaving many firms with too little cash to pay salaries and taxes. In this ground-breaking book on the Russian economy, David Woodruff argues that Moscow's inability to control the nation's currency is not a carry-over from the Soviet past. Rather, the Russian government has failed to build the administrative capacity and political support...