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Transition pour certains, rupture pour d'autres, l'envahissement du cyberespace dans nos vies soulève plusieurs questions. Il est rare, dans l'histoire de l'humanité, de constater qu'une innovation technologique transforme autant et en si peu de temps le quotidien des individus, mais aussi les façons de gouverner ou d'analyser le monde. Le présent ouvrage part du constat que nous vivons actuellement une véritable «cybérisation» individuelle...
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This book outlines the way in which legislative proposals in the British Virgin Islands are conceived and processed. It also contains best practice suggestions on interfacing with Parliamentary Counsel regardless of the jurisdiction in which one is working. Those suggestions are based on the authors well-received earlier publication The Legislative Process: A Handbook for Public Officials (2009). That book was featured significantly in The Parliamentarian:...
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A treinta años de la Constitución de 1991, surge la necesidad de repensar la carta política en sus términos originales: un acuerdo de paz entre diversos actores de la sociedad. Con la terminación del conflicto armado y la implementación del acuerdo firmado en 2016, se da a su vez la discusión acerca de cómo se ha puesto en práctica la Constitución, en qué contexto histórico y político se elaboró y cómo ha contribuido a la construcción...
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Gabriel A. FigueroaCiudadano peruano-norteamericano. Actor de teatro, cine y televisin. Autor de obras de teatro y escritor de novelas y ensayos de carcter poltico. Resume sus objetivos de vida til precisando que es artista porque ama la belleza; que valora la ciencia porque ama la verdad, y que hace poltica porque ama la justicia social. Ha sido presidente de la Asociacin Nacional de Trabajadores del Arte, Vicepresidente de la Federacin Nacional...
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#1 The difficulty in absorbing the news is that the words we use have a way of making the outrageous seem normal. Thus, when we try to describe the exceptional, barely imaginable nature of Trumpian events, we are forced to use normalizing words.
#2 When we use the wrong language to describe what we are seeing, we cannot understand it. When some of the post-Soviet societies...
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#1 The farm was 30 miles west of Wichita on the silty loam of southern Kansas. It had three nicknames: the breadbasket of the world, the air capital of the world, and tornado alley. The area was known for its government-subsidized grain production, airplane-manufacturing industry, and its tornadoes.
#2 Betty and Arnie met at a dance, and after a few dates,...
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Let us be clear this election year 2020 our national Constitution has been betrayed by one man and his Russian allied Capitalist friends'.
However, it is true that it was we the American people of today who let our guard down and legally appointed Donald Trump to the Executive Offices of the United States. Yes, in historical fact we did give the wolf the keys to the chicken coup/The United States of North America.
So it is now four years after that...
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Los primeros escritos filosóficos de Mao apuntalaron las revoluciones chinas y, con sus llamadas a la insurrección, siguen constituyendo algunos de los textos más agitadores de todos los tiempos. El explosivo comentario que el inconformista filósofo Slavoj Žižek realiza sobre éstos alcanza conclusiones inquietantes sobre el lugar que el pensamiento de Mao ocupa en la doctrina revolucionaria.
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Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince in 1999-2001, Daniel Whitman was haunted by the country's people and landscapes, its nuanced language, and complex and rewarding friendships. His friends included neighbors, art gallery owners, gas station attendants - but mostly Haiti's intrepid journalists and broadcasters. Unlike others, Whitman believed that the three elections of 2000 could advance Haiti's democracy and its development...
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En el marco de la transición del orden unipolar a uno multipolar, Asia Pacífico ha surgido como un actor de peso creciente en la economía mundial. En este contexto, China viene emergiendo paulatinamente como una gran potencia, un importante inversionista, prestamista y, después de Estados Unidos, como el segundo socio comercial de América Latina y el Caribe. La región se ha convertido en un actor geoeconómicamente y geopolíticamente clave...
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The United States Marine Corps began its modern transformation path after the introduction of the Osprey in 2007. In a series of in-depth interviews with the United States Marines, this analysis highlights the transformation strategy that has made the USMC one of the most dynamic military forces in the world today. From the land wars to dealing with peer competitor threats and engagements, this book demonstrates how the Marines are navigating the...
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In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies-21st century war and conflict waged by non-state entities- and the impact this new form of warfare is having on states. For this, we embrace them and have established...
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Aujourd'hui, on a marqué l'histoire. Aujourd'hui, il y a beaucoup de Québécois qui ont mis de cté un débat qui nous a divisés depuis 50 ans. » En prononçant ces paroles après la confirmation de sa victoire aux élections québécoises de 2018, François Legault se réjouissait de la relégation de la question nationale à l'arrière-plan du débat public au Québec. Devant cette impression d'assister à la fin d'une époque, l'historien est...
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We are fortunate to have a growing generation which has a vision, is ambitions, hard working and have taken their role in right earnest to make India really shining. It shall be a great injustice to them if we fail to project their ambitions, perseverance and single mindedness to achieve their goals against in surmountable obstacles. By presenting the mini-biography of an young police officer, although confining themselves only to the ambitions, inclinations...
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Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S. Saul examines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.
With chapters on South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique, Saul examines the reality of southern Africa's post-'liberation'...
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Lost Legacies genuinely portrays governance in Nigeria and the brand of politics as practiced by the current breed of Nigerian politicians. It equally highlights the implication of these practices as well as the continual adoption of flawed institutional and political framework in the implementation of local policies and management of foreign loans and aids. Laced with past and current events told with humor and sarcasm but offers alternatives to...
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#1 Hegel was a German philosopher who lived during the French Revolution. He was just short of his nineteenth birthday when the Revolution began, and he shared the enthusiasm of the period. When Napoleon ruled over Europe, Hegel praised him as a world genius who had been destroyed by mediocrity.
#2 Hegel was a German philosopher who lived during the golden age of German...
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New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump. With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story of Trump’s four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff’s extraordinary access to White House...
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