La creación de la Unión Europea es uno de los procesos históricos más importantes de la Historia moderna pues supuso la superación de muchos problemas y antagonismos en un continente siempre enfrentado a sí mismo y escenario de numerosas conflagraciones.
Si en América Latina las leyes destinadas a eliminar la corrupción, el clientelismo electoral, la discriminación racial o la violencia contra la mujer, a redistribuir los ingresos a los pobres o a proteger el medio ambiente efectivamente se cumplieran a lo largo del tiempo, las consecuencias sociales y políticas serían impactantes.
"Algo huele mal en Dinamarca", la frase que pronuncia el centinela Marcelo en Hamlet se torna gráfica para expresar las causas y consecuencias de la corrupción.
Asia and Europe have become increasingly interconnected over the last few decades; this growth in mutual interest is due largely to their economic, political, cultural, and historical ties to one another.
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.
ASEAN 50: Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents curates key official documents that establish ASEAN as the foundation of Southeast Asia's peace and security.
This book describes the current innovative tendencies characteristic of multifaceted scientific research and practical developments in the field of international business development and sustainable management.
This book focuses on the recent rise of new regional economic institutions such as the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which were established, in part, as a result of dissatisfaction of dynamic emerging markets with global economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT/WTO.
This book explores the establishment process, mechanism design, and role orientation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under the new background of global economic governance.
This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.
This book explores the transformation of India's relations with Central and Eastern Europe from being a subset of Indo-Soviet relations during the Cold War to the rediscovery and rebuilding of relations with the region almost from scratch in the post-Cold War era.
The book examines how the European Union, which in the past had tended to be seen by India as an undervalued partner, is now increasingly part of most conversations in fields like the economy, technology, standards, best practices, development, defence and security.
The book examines diplomatic immunity and provides a historical analysis of the granting of diplomatic immunity to non-diplomats, based on the perspectives of several states.
This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.
This pivot introduces the Arctic Council and its role as a platform for dealing with local, national, regional and global challenges of relevance to the "e;new"e; Arctic.
This book explores the images and perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the eyes of one of the EU's three strategic partners in Asia in the context of its own distinct policies and identity.
This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners' insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the 21st Century.
This book critically examines the possible dilution of the neutrality principle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in internal armed conflicts.
This is the first book that explicitly outlines Asian contributions to the elaboration of universal human rights values that were proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
This book, Rising from the Ashes: UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste, provides an in-depth look into the UN's first experiment in governing and building peace in the aftermath of conflict, using East Timor as a case study.
The research presented in this book provides a stakeholder analysis of human rights protection at a time when the region appears to be regressing into an insidious and deep authoritarianism.
Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics.
El texto Legislación Laboral: un enfoque práctico busca colocar, al alcance de un público no especialista en temas laborales, la información fundamental de esta área que genera muchas dudas e inquietudes entre quienes permanentemente deben tomar decisiones sobre las relaciones legales que implica el ambiente de trabajo.
Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through which fundamental human needs are constructed as "e;rights"e; under international law, and how those rights are confronted by the ruling relations and crises inherent to contemporary global capitalism and the waning American hegemonic world order.
La Pedagogía Social es una disciplina que investiga y orienta la práctica socioeducativa teniendo como propósito la mejora sociocomunitaria, desde una dimensión cultural, horizontal y ética.
La Pedagogía Social es una disciplina que investiga y orienta la práctica socioeducativa teniendo como propósito la mejora sociocomunitaria, desde una dimensión cultural, horizontal y ética.
El libro explora la formación, evolución y limitaciones del Sistema Internacional de Control de Drogas (SIDC) centrándose en su lógica interna y las consecuencias de establecer una política pública de drogas única en un mundo cambiante y complejo.
This book examines the role of European Union (EU) agencies in the EU's external border control policy, looking at how the empowerment of particular bodies has shaped the management of their external borders and influenced EU governance more broadly.
This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication on the duty of care of internationalorganizations towards their civilian personnel sent on missions and assignments outsideof their normal place of activity.
