Hegemonías, bloques y potencias en el siglo XXI

Hegemonías, bloques y potencias en el siglo XXI

Author: Vicenç Fisas Armengol

Publisher: LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 8413525705

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El propósito de este libro es mostrar los cambios que se han producido en el mundo en las últimas décadas respecto a los poderes hegemónicos, de dominio y de expansión, tanto en la esfera política como en la económica y militar. Se trata en cierta forma de un análisis geopolítico de la actualidad, en su sentido más amplio, que influye también en el diseño y puesta en marcha de las políticas exteriores de algunos países, en todos sus ámbitos, y no solo en sus políticas internas. Afecta no solo a los Estados, sino también a actores no estatales, en particular económicos, con una enorme influencia sobre nuestras vidas y sin que existan mecanismos de regulación suficientes sobre sus actividades. Si en las tres últimas décadas ya se han producido algunos cambios importantes en la escena internacional, en concreto con la presencia de China como nuevo actor imprescindible, tanto la pandemia del coronavirus y la crisis económica derivada de ella como la guerra de Ucrania de 2022 han mostrado la existencia de enormes vulnerabilidades en el sistema económico internacional, y un enorme tensionamiento en lo político, con la vuelta a los viejos esquemas de la Guerra Fría y una reordenación de los poderes políticos y sus áreas de influencia. Es muy posible, por tanto, que en pocos años tengamos un nuevo contexto y diferentes relaciones de poder. Van a moverse bastantes fichas en el tablero de las hegemonías y esta obra puede ayudar a entender tanto el presente como lo que se avecina.


Blue Geopolitics

Blue Geopolitics

Author: Vicenç Fisas Armengol

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Since the formation of the United Nations in 1945 the world has changed dramatically. The intention of the original signatories was to protect future generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm the faith in human rights and the dignity of the individual and to promote social progress. How has the UN matched up to these expectations? Is there a good argument that now, in the 1990s, the UN should undergo radical reform?


Regionalism in Latin America

Regionalism in Latin America

Author: JOSÉ BRICEÑO-RUIZ

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1000220591

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This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America. It identifies convergent forces which have existed in the region since its very conception and analyses these dynamics in their different historical, geographic and structural contexts. Particular attention is paid to key countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, as well as subregions like the Southern Cone and Central America. To understand the resilience of regionalism in Latin America, this book proposes to highlight four main issues. Firstly, that resilience is linked to mechanisms of self-enforcement that are part of the accumulation of experiences, institution building and common cultural features described in this book as regionalist acquis. Secondly, the elements and driving forces behind the promotion and expression of the regionalist acquis are influenced and shaped by nested systems in which social processes are inserted. Thirdly, when looking at systems, there is a particular influence by national and global ones, which condition the form and endurance of regional projects. Finally, beyond systems, the book highlights the relevance of agents as crucial players in the shaping of the resilience of regionalism in Latin America. This insightful collection will appeal to advanced students and researchers in international economics, international relations, international political economy, economic history and Latin American studies.


Globalizing de Gaulle

Globalizing de Gaulle

Author: Christian Nuenlist

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 073914250X

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French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General's international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.


A World Divided

A World Divided

Author: G. K. Helleiner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1976-01-29

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521209489

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This 1976 volume originated in the mood of disillusion and despair which followed the Third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Santiago in 1972. The prospects for cooperation between rich and poor nations seemed poor and new policies and instruments needed to considered if the interests of the rich and poor nations were not to become even more unbalanced in favour of the rich. The contributors to this volume consider what unexploited possibilities might be open to the less developed countries, both jointly and individually, in international affairs, which would generate a more equitable outcome. The issues addressed in these papers were, at the time of publication, of immediate relevance following the success of oil producing countries in revising prices, worldwide inflation, famine in the poorest countries, recession in industrial countries. Simultaneously, the less developed countries were declaring the need for a new international economic order, which this volume discusses.


Marxism and Literary Criticism

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Author: Terry Eagleton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1976-08-16

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780520032439

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"Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian


The First Great Powers

The First Great Powers

Author: Arthur Cotterell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1787383474

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The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society we know today. The Sumerians inaugurated civilisation itself, but it was the Babylonians and then the Assyrians who fulfilled its potential. Their early experiments in state formation remain fascinating to us today: just like our governments, for a thousand years Babylon and Assyria grappled with the challenges of organising central power, administering distant territories, and engineering social harmony in empires and their cities. These achievements form one of the momentous episodes in human history; the Mesopotamian invention of writing revolutionised our minds and increased our intellectual possibilities a hundredfold. The First Great Powers is a revelation: of kingship, warfare, society and religion. Here at last we can discover what it meant to be an ancient Mesopotamian living in such an extraordinary world.