What if? Scotland and the European Union
Tamara Guirao-Espiñeira
One of the questions raised by the possible Scottish referendum on independence is the implications on the European Union membership of a newly created Scottish State. The European Treaties do not have a specific clause stating the procedure for such a case, but some regulations and principles existing at...
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Bin Laden
Bárbara Román
Un paseo por la blogosfera
En los últimos días todos hablan de la que parece ser la noticia del año: los EEUU han encontrado y matado a Osama Bin Laden.
Después de meditarlo me gustaría desde aquí hacer algunas reflexiones a los comentarios que han salido en diversos medios de comunicación...
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La comunicación de las revoluciones
Mª Amparo TORTOSA-GARRIGÓS, Intervención en la mesa redonda del mismo nombre en el Primer Encuentro de Hispanistas Árabes.
Túnez, Noviembre 2011
Desde que empezaran las revoluciones árabes los medios de comunicación y los líderes mundiales no se atrevían a posicionarse ni tan siquiera a definirlas.
Uno de los primeros en hablar públicamente de...
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Nuclear weapons: deterrence or threat
Belén Mendoza Chandas
"Peace is the only battle worth undertaking," Albert Camus
The heyday of nuclear weapons took place during the Cold War era, when they were considered essential to maintaining international security in the bipolar world order that prevailed back then.
With the end of the Cold War there was no longer...
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Some remarks on fundamentalism
Belén Mendoza Chandas
Finding solace and refuge in religion is an attribute of our society. The fear of death, the pain of life, they need God and God’s faith, whatever its manifestations. Religious fundamentalism is more than religion. It is always reactive, reactionary and selective (energies address those features that best...
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US interest in EU integration
Belén Mendoza Chandas
The current process of European integration has made significant progress through successive stages. It should be noted also that we are dealing with an international player who is still alive and evolving, consolidating, strengthening and expanding besides its internal contradictions.
We should also remember that the Second World War...
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Y tras las elecciones... ¿todo termina?
Jose Luis López de Ciordia
Planeta Utopía
Mucho se ha hablado (y se seguirá hablando) sobre la dichosa crisis. Se nos han presentado las elecciones al parlamento de España como el espacio de participación "anti-crisis" que los ciudadanos de a pie teníamos.
Pues bien, esa forma de participación ciudadana tan concreta y puntual...
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Desde hace ya varios años es extraño que pase un día sin que nadie hable o escriba del precio elevado de los combustibles, de la cada vez más complicada tarea de soportar los continuos incrementos de los mismos y de las alternativas necesarias para suplirlos a medio plazo.
The economic differences between North and South countries reflect for the last in a dual economy, given the internal divergences, many times inherited of the colonial past. This dual economy is characterised by the coexistence of more developed sectors with quite fragile others. Besides, most part of developing countries confronts high rates of persistent unemployment. Equally, these countries lack from essential factors of production: both capital and qualified work. Other macro-economic characteristic are: low development of the financial markets, driven by the public sector; the direct implication of the government in the economy and in the exchange rates; the high indexes of inflation; the use of debt and external help as common resources and the primacy of raw materials in GDP and exports.
