Ante la crisis financiera, el cambio climático y otros problemas de alcance global, pocas veces ha sido tan necesaria e insuficiente la capacidad de cooperación internacional. Para superar esta paradoja David Held ofrece en el...
Esta obra, que se ha convertido en una lectura indispensable para los interesados en la política, la teoría política y la filosofía política, ofrece una introducción a las concepciones centrales de la democracia...
¿Qué es la globalización? ¿Por qué es fuente de tan intensa controversia? ¿Está creando un mundo más desordenado o puede contribuir a remodelarlo? En la estela del 11 de septiembre, estas cuestiones...
Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is incr...
Examines the question, 'What is the future of culture in the age of globalization?'. This book features essays representing a theoretical and methodological challenge to the social sciences, and questioning the nature of globalization and the culture...
What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are the major trends and patterns? Addressing these questions, this book examines the major issues that need to be confronted in conceptualising, measuring and analysing patterns of global inequality...
Provides an introduction to the accounts of democracy from classical Greece and a discussion of what democracy should mean. This edition takes account of significant transformations in world politics and is suitable for those interested in politics, polit...
Provides an introduction to the debate about globalization. Focusing not only on the pressing difficulties facing our world, but also on solutions, this book provides suggestions for reshaping globalization into a force that will work for humans everywher...
America wields a combination of military, economic and cultural power that is unprededented, and the way America uses this power has repercussions on every major issue of world affairs. This volume explores the questions raised by American power from a...