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Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.
Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed analysis of Mexico's political economy. James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's pivotal economic crisis of the 1980s and the consequent turn toward an export-led economy, later anchored by NAFTA. They show how Mexico, after abandoning frequently successful past practices of state-led development, disastrously tied its future to an unconditional reliance on foreign corporations to promote an export-led growth strategy. Focusing on Mexico's cheap labor export model, the authors use the maquiladora sector and the auto industry as case studies of the perils of globalization—the "race to the bottom" as capital becomes ever more international. The government's unconstrained free-market policies, they convincingly argue, have resulted in a fragmented economy marked by stagnation, falling wages, informal part-time employment, and massive migration, which define daily life for all but a tiny minority.
El proceso constituyente que se llevó a cabo en Venezuela entre 1998 y 1999 está lleno de contradicciones que dan pie para analizar algunas de las causas que conducen a la posibilidad de un cambio constitucional y a todas las etapas de un proceso constituyente democrático. Escasamente conocido por la doctrina especializada en constitution-making, resulta sumamente útil para contrastarlo con otras experiencias históricas y extraer ricas y variadas conclusiones para diseñar procesos de cambio constitucional que estén guiados por principios de participación, inclusividad y transparencia. Así, en la primera parte de Un proceso constituyente democrático en Venezuela, el autor desarrolla...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2009, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2009. The 63 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and reasoning, ontologies, knowledge management and knowledge-based systems, uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing, robotics, planning and scheduling, fuzzy logic, neural networks, intelligent tutoring systems, bioinformatics and medical applications, hybrid intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms.