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This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted
relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how
nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped
by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines
nationalism's relationship with democracy using three
approaches:
- The challenge of democracy for sub-state nationalism: analyzing
the circumstances under which sub-state nationalism is compatible
with democracy, and assessing the democratic implications of
various nationalist projects.
- The impact of state nationalism on democratic practices:
examining the implications of state nationalism for democracy, both
in countries where liberal democratic principles and practices are
well-established and where they are not.
- Understanding how state nationalism affects democratization
processes and what impact sub-state nationalism has in these
contexts.
Featuring a range of case studies on Western, Eastern and
Central Europe, Russia, African and the Middle East, this book will
be of interest to students and scholars of political science,
sociology, nationalism and democracy.
This is a major contribution to our understanding of European
integration.
It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion,
European integration as transnational political society formation
in a common political space.
Four conceptual chapters discuss different approaches to
studying European 'transnationalization' including networks and
socialization. Six empirical chapters provide in-depth studies of
different aspects of this process and policy fields ranging from
European party networks and university collaboration to informal
economic governance in the Eurozone and police collaboration across
borders.
This book redresses the excessive concentration in EU research
on supranational policy-making and inter-state bargaining. It will
be of great interest to political scientists as well as
contemporary historians, sociologists and lawyers.
Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the
welfare state and reconfiguring their relationship with each other.
The inter-linkages between these phenomenon, however, have never
been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the
expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the
framework of territorial politics. The book includes country
studies on the UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, the
Nordic countries and Canada, addressing key questions such as: *Did
the expansion of state welfare provide a basis for national unity
by reinforcing attachment to the national state or was a shared
national identity and solidarity a necessary condition underpinning
and legitimising welfare expansion? *Has the retreat from state
welfare weakened state national identity and reinforced support for
greater sub-state autonomy or has the reassertion of regional
identity and sub-state autonomy undermined welfare states by
weakening the sense of national solidarity? the process of
Europeanization, taken into account at both national and regional
levels of welfare provision? *Can the European Union draw upon its
developing role in social policy to generate a sense of belonging
and attachment to the European 'community'? In addition to its
empirical investigation, The Territorial Politics of Welfare
includes an examination of the role of the European Union in social
policy development. It will interest scholars of social policy,
territorial politics and European studies.
The process of devolution in Spain was initiated with the
transition to democracy after the death of General Franco. Since
1978, the country has gone through a simultaneous process of
democratization and federalization. The first chapter in this
volume discusses theoretical concepts, such as ethnic group,
nation-state, nationalism, or federalism. A review of the
historical background of plural Spain is followed by an analysis of
the transfers of political to historical nationalities (Basque
Country, Catalonia and Galicia) and regions. The final chapters
deal with the dual identity expressed by a majority of Spaniards,
and future scenarios for a federal Spain.
The process of devolution in Spain was initiated with the
transition to democracy after the death of General Franco. Since
1978, the country has gone through a simultaneous process of
democratization and federalization. The first chapter in this
volume discusses theoretical concepts, such as ethnic group,
nation-state, nationalism, or federalism. A review of the
historical background of plural Spain is followed by an analysis of
the transfers of political to historical nationalities (Basque
Country, Catalonia and Galicia) and regions. The final chapters
deal with the dual identity expressed by a majority of Spaniards,
and future scenarios for a federal Spain."
This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, one
of the most innovative international institutions, from the unique
perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Moreno Ocampo received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the
International Criminal Court's investigation into sovereign states
in June 2003, just three months after the Iraq invasion. At the
time, there were serious doubts about the ICC's viability. By 2012,
the end of his tenure, the future of the ICC was no longer at risk.
However, as Moreno Ocampo's experiences have shown, what was and
still is up for debate is the Rome Statute's ability to "contribute
to the prevention" of future crimes. The implementation of the Rome
Statute has coincided with the War on Terror. The international
criminal justice system that protects the rights of victims and
suspects clashes with the US policy authorizing the killing abroad
of individuals considered enemy combatants. Legal designs are
literally a matter of life or death. This book examines a
consequential blind spot: The War on Terror obstructed justice and
promoted terrorism. The Iraq intervention produced the 'Islamic
State', and after twenty years of occupation, the Taliban returned
to power. The Afghanistan occupation has ended, but not so the War
on Terror. Using drones and proxy forces to eliminate enemies in
foreign countries has become the "new normal." Arguing that there
is no chaos, just complexity, Moreno Ocampo produces an
interdisciplinary analysis of his decisions, describing a
"fragmented" international legal system's operation and the
relationships between legal and political decisions. This book aims
to help new generations to manage violence with new ways of legal
and political thinking.
It is widely recognized that the degree of development of a science
is given by the transition from a mainly descriptive stage to a
more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative
interpretations (conceptual models) are complemented with
quantification (numerical models, both, deterministic and
stochastic). This has been the main task of mathematical
geoscientists during the last forty years -Â to establish new
frontiers and new challenges in the study and understanding of the
natural world. Mathematics of Planet Earth comprises the
proceedings of the International Association for Mathematical
Geosciences Conference (IAMG2013), held in Madrid from September
2-6, 2013. The Conference addresses researchers, professionals and
students. The proceedings contain more than 150 original
contributions and give a multidisciplinary vision of mathematical
geosciences.
This survey addresses the use of technology in upper secondary
mathematics education from four points of view: theoretical
analysis of epistemological and cognitive aspects of activity in
new technology mediated learning environments, the changes brought
by technology in the interactions between environment, students and
teachers, the interrelations between mathematical activities and
technology, skills and competencies that must be developed in
teacher education. Research shows that the use of some technologies
may deeply change the solving processes and contribute to impact
the learning processes. The questions are which technologies to
choose for which purposes, and how to integrate them, so as to
maximize all students' agency. In particular the role of the
teacher in classrooms and the content of teacher education programs
are critical for taking full advantage of technology in teaching
practice.
This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted
relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how
nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped
by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines
nationalism's relationship with democracy using three approaches:
The challenge of democracy for sub-state nationalism: analyzing the
circumstances under which sub-state nationalism is compatible with
democracy, and assessing the democratic implications of various
nationalist projects. The impact of state nationalism on democratic
practices: examining the implications of state nationalism for
democracy, both in countries where liberal democratic principles
and practices are well-established and where they are not.
Understanding how state nationalism affects democratization
processes and what impact sub-state nationalism has in these
contexts. Featuring a range of case studies on Western, Eastern and
Central Europe, Russia, African and the Middle East, this book will
be of interest to students and scholars of political science,
sociology, nationalism and democracy.
Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized
economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and
granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have
not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation
not to commit atrocities or human rights abuses in the pursuit of
profit. Multinational corporations are increasingly complicit in
genocides that occur in the developing world. While they benefit
enormously from the crime, they are immune from prosecution at the
international level. Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide proposes
new legal pathways to ensure such companies are held criminally
liable for their conduct by creating a framework for international
criminal jurisdiction. If a state or a person commits genocide,
they are punished, and international law demands such.
Nevertheless, corporate actors have successfully avoided this
through an array of legal arguments which Professor Kelly
challenges. He demonstrates how international criminal jurisdiction
should be extended over corporations for complicity in genocide and
makes the case that it should be done promptly.
The text of Cultures of Anyone is freely available online at the
Modern Languages Open platform www.modernlanguagesopen.org Cultures
of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and
non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic
crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that
have arisen online and through social movements such as the
Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition of
intellectual elitism and capitalist technocracy in Spain. From the
establishment of a technocratic and consumerist culture during the
second part of the Franco dictatorship to the transition to
neoliberalism that accompanied the 'transition to democracy',
intellectuals and 'experts' have legitimized contemporary Spanish
history as a series of unavoidable steps in a process of
'modernization'. But when unemployment skyrocketed and a growing
number of people began to feel that the consequences of this
Spanish 'modernization' had increasingly led to precariousness,
this paradigm collapsed. In the wake of Spain's financial meltdown
of 2008, new 'cultures of anyone' have emerged around the idea that
the people affected by or involved in a situation should be the
ones to participate in changing it. Growing through grassroots
social movements, digital networks, and spaces traditionally
reserved for 'high culture' and institutional politics, these
cultures promote processes of empowerment and collaborative
learning that allow the development of the abilities and knowledge
base of 'anyone', regardless of their economic status or
institutional affiliations.
Conforme aumenta la cultura de la Sociedad esta tiende cada vez mas
a la automedicacion. La automedicacion suele considerarse como algo
que debe evitarse todo lo posible. Sin embargo la automedicacion
bien realizada tiene sus ventajas. Implica al paciente en su
tratamiento, disminuye los gastos de los Sistemas Sanitarios y,
sobre todo, acelera el tratamiento y la curacion del paciente. Pero
la automedicacion con antibioticos dificilmente puede considerarse
conveniente para el paciente o para la sociedad. Es casi imposible
que el paciente sea capaz de autodiagnosticarse con exactitud una
infeccion bacteriana, y un mal uso de los antibioticos ocasionaria
un aumento de las resistencias. En las farmacias muchos pacientes
nos piden antibioticos para automedicarse. El farmaceutico esta en
una posicion inmejorable para reconducir estas demandas y sustituir
el antibiotico pedido por otro medicamento mas apropiado. O bien,
derivar al paciente al medico si fuera necesario un examen mas
detallado"
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