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The Politics behind Aid and Cooperation Norms
This book examines the use of norms by British and Brazilian actors in aid/cooperation in the 21st century, unveiling the politics behind norm circulation. Inspired by a constructivist approach, this research analyses actors’ agency in asymmetric international and domestic environments, in which different norms, dissimilar identities, and opposing interests coexist. Regardless of the discourses and theories surrounding the differentiation between North-South and South-South aid/cooperation, British and Brazilian actors use norms to achieve their own goals at the domestic and international levels. Processes of norm circulation in aid/cooperation have a greater impact at the international le...
Conflict Resolution and Global Justice
This book examines how the different normative foundations of conflict resolution held by various global actors, their understandings of justice, and the differences between types of conflict influence the varying means by which conflicts can be prevented, managed, and ultimately resolved. By combining insights from political theory, conflict studies, and European Union (EU) foreign policy studies, the book identifies the EU as the key case of a conflict manager that is both a product and a defender of a global liberal order. It focuses on three aspects of conflict resolution that pose their own sets of both normative and empirical dilemmas: resolving border disputes; strengthening the resil...
COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL AL DESARROLLO: ENTRE SOLIDARIDAD E INTERÉS
La cooperación internacional para el desarrollo es un campo político fundamental de las relaciones internacionales, “campo político” porque su relevancia no es principalmente económica o financiera: se gasta menos en “ayuda” exterior y en cooperación multilateral de lo que se gasta en armas y guerras, drogas ilícitas, inversiones en bolsa o en los paraísos fiscales. De hecho, lo cooperación internacional para el desarrollo desempeña la función de amortiguador de las tensiones internacionales e integra diversos procesos de reconstrucción del orden mundial. Después de 1945 fueron establecidas muchas instituciones nacionales y multilaterales: agencias bilaterales [usaid, jic...
El cambio internacional mediante las relaciones Sur - Sur
En este libro se propone un análisis de las relaciones Sur-Sur y de sus significados para el sistema internacional a partir de la revisión de los casos brasileño, chileno y venezolano durante un momento de dinamismo diplomático a principios del siglo XXI. Es estudio postula que, en un contexto de interdependencia, todos los actores estatales pueden participar en el cambio internacional, mismo que no puede reducirse a la labor de las grandes potencias. El debate sobre los efectos sistémicos de los países emergentes ha tendido a reproducir la idea según la cual sólo los estados dominantes contribuyen a la evolución de la escena mundial. Por el contrario, esta obra invita a no limitar la mirada a esta parte visible del iceberg y a no olvidar el papel menos ostentoso, pero igualmente indispensable, de otros países del Sur.
Maré Testimonies
Eliana gave us a beautiful book, valuable beyond the biographical itinerary of its author, and with a quality that shouldn't be attributed only to its origins. But beyond a notable book, valuable in and of itself, Eliana gave us an extraordinary example of transgressing patterns, prejudices and probabilities. An admirable example of citizen self-invention.
Justice and Democracy in Brazil
This book details the struggle to establish and maintain democracy and justice in Brazil after 2000. From 1964 to 1984, Brazil had a dictatorship, which was followed by democratic elections. Later, from 2003 to 2016, the nation enjoyed a very popular and democratic government under President Lula and President Dilma, who created many social and educational programs that raised 32 million people out of extreme poverty. However, as this book highlights, since 2013, the nation has witnessed the rise of a very conservative movement, which led to the impeachment of President Dilma (2016), to the imprisonment of President Lula (2018) and to the election of a right-wing president, who represented a decline in democracy and rights from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, we had new elections, with the victory of President Lula, who took office on January 1, 2023. This book advocates for a new period in Brazilian politics, with full democracy, respect for the rule of law and social justice.
Brazil: A Biography
'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Its native people both revolutionized Europe's ideas of itself and were then subject to extermination. For white settlers Brazil's opportunities seemed endless, for imported black slaves it was a hell on earth. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to c...
Environment, Climate Change and International Relations
This edited collection provides an understanding about the complex relationship between International Relations, the environment, and climate change. It details current tendencies of study, explores the most important routes of assessing environmental issues as an issue of international governance, and provides perspectives on the route forward.
From White to Yellow
When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but...
