Las Farc-EP en la coyuntura estratégica de la paz negociada (2010-2017)

Focusing on the Irish, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Scotland, Catalonia and the Chinese nation, this text examines the re-emergence of the nationalistic spirit in the late-20th century. It offers a study of the increasing complexity of a multicultural world.

La expresión “gobernanza moderna”, acuñada por Renate Mayntz (2005), se utiliza para referirse a la cooperación entre autoridades estatales y actores de la sociedad civil para la formulación e implementación de políticas públicas o la solución de problemas. En una acepción tradicional la gobernanza estuvo referida a la forma en que las autoridades ejercían su poder soberano sobre la sociedad civil, pero este concepto, que responde a un modelo jerárquico o de control centrado en el Estado, ha ido evolucionado hacia una nueva forma de gobernar en la cual diversos actores...

Provides a history of the United Nations from Woodrow Wilson to the present day, detailing the creation of an international organization dedicated to the promotion of peace, development, and growth, and assessing its future.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...