El 24 de febrero de 2022 las tropas rusas ingresaron en el territorio de Ucrania en una "operación militar especial", lo que desató un conflicto bélico a gran escala que ya ha provocado miles de muertes, el éxodo de millones de civiles y una crisis de refugiados comparable con la de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Die Zeitenwende wurde, seitdem Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz sie in seiner Regierungserklärung zum völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg Putins gegen die Ukraine vor dem Deutschen Bundestag beschwor, zum Schlüsselwort des Jahres 2022: Bereits zuvor, noch rechnete niemand mit dem russischen Überfall, war im Koalitionsvertrag der Ampel im November 2021 vom Umbruch die Rede: «Die Welt ist am Beginn eines Jahrzehnts im Umbruch, deshalb können wir nicht im Stillstand verharren.
Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit Eduard Bernsteins revisionistisch-reformistischem Sozialismuskonzept, das die grundlegenden Ziele der Sozialdemokratie mit einer klaren Gesellschaftsanalyse zu einer Reformstrategie verband, und fragt ob sein Denken heute in der Krise der SPD und der politischen Linken helfen kann und welche Bedeutung sein Werk für das Verständnis der Gegenwart und die Gestaltung der Zukunft hat.
How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes.
Desde principios del siglo xx resulta frecuente ofrecer una visión idealizada de la división de poderes, supuestamente inspirada en la memoria de un siglo xix que en realidad nunca existió, para luego considerar la incidencia de los partidos como un factor de perturbación y degeneración.
En esta primera historia del globalismo neoliberal, Slobodian sigue a un grupo de pensadores desde las cenizas del Imperio de los Habsburgo hasta la creación de la Organización Mundial del Comercio, para demostrar que el neoliberalismo no surgió para reducir el gobierno y abolir las regulaciones, sino para volver a implementarlas a nivel mundial.
La pandemia de la Covid-19 ha supuesto para los Estados democráticos de Derecho un auténtico stress test sobre la capacidad de ofrecer respuestas rápidas, oportunas y flexibles a retos sociales y económicos sin precedentes, sin poner en peligro el equilibrio de la separación de poderes.
Este ensayo desenmascara las nuevas pedagogías que marginan los contenidos científicos y el prestigio del docente, un modelo que se reviste de modernidad e innovación con discursos pseudoprogresistas, pero que esconde un mensaje profundamente reaccionario.
An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty.
Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history.
La vida de Hannah Arendt ha sido repetidamente biografiada y llevada a la ficción, pero el episodio de su viaje de tránsito por la España de Franco en 1941 había quedado fuera del foco del interés y fiado a un imaginario tren Portbou-Lisboa, que en efecto nunca existió.
Esta deslumbrante crónica escrita por Marx entre diciembre de 1851 y marzo de 1852 muestra una vigencia indiscutible hoy, cuando la celebración o la impugnación del pasado aplasta la imaginación de otros futuros.
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine?
An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?
La situación política y fiscal de las provincias argentinas se transformó en un verdadero "talón de Aquiles" para el programa de reformas de mercado menemista en la última década del siglo XX.
How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.
How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitionsIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy.
A compact, incisive history of a war that was an ominous prelude to Russia's invasion of UkraineLeaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale.
A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination.
A fully revised edition of the classic reference on concepts and their role in social science researchSocial Science Concepts and Measurement offers an updated look at the theory and methodology of concepts for the social sciences.
A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution.
How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military.
A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable.
Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "e;forever war"e;-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens.
