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The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures explores the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture. Specifically, it analyzes these countries’ efforts to democratize their intelligence agencies (i.e. to develop intelligence services that are both transparent and effective) to convert the former military regimes’ repressive security apparatuses into democratic intelligence communities—a rather paradoxical task, considering that democracy calls for political neutrality, transparency, and accountability, while effective intelligence services must operate in secrecy. Indeed, even the most successful democracies fa...
Vidas en Vilo
En esta obra el lector encontrara estimulantes reflexiones para el estudio de la violencia desde una mirada biopolítica; perspectiva inpulsada por autores como Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben y Achille Mbembe, a través de conceptos como la necropolítica, la soberamía y el estado de excepción. Estos conceptos permiten nuevas lecturas sobre segmentos de poblacion tradicionalmente juzgados como desechables, asi como de vidas concideradas excedentes, superfluas o en vilo, a partir del estudio de fenómenos que tocan dolorosamente a México y América Latina. Estas herramientas conceptuales han servido para comprender las decisiones gubernamentales sobre las políticas de seguridad que han impulsado la confrontación militarizada contra los grupos vinculados a la delincuencia organizada y para dar cuenta de fenómenos como la producción masiva de muerte por decisión gubernamental. la desaparición de restos humanos. Pero también sirven para entender el entorno de violencia difusa de amplia letalidad producida por actores no estables, que concerne a todos los ámbitos de la social.
Fuerza pública en América Latina
La seguridad ha sido una preocupación de todas las sociedades, desde los antecedentes más remotos de vida colectiva. Actualmente, la violencia se encuentra presente con una normalidad cada vez más preocupante en las sociedades del mundo. Incluso se pretende justificar la prevalencia de ésta bajo la falsa disyuntiva entre paz y seguridad, como si fuesen excluyentes y los Estados debiesen elegir una y negar la posibilidad de la otra.
The Cuban Revolution
"Now in its second edition, The Cuban Revolution has been updated to include an entirely new chapter on the changes affecting Cuba's policies and economy since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the failure of communism in general."--BOOK JACKET.
Shadow Cities
In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community. Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http://squatterci ty.blogspot.com
Democracy Against the State
In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensour’s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an “unknown Marx” who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and defends a historically occluded form of politics. True democracy does not entail the political and economic power of the state, but it does not dream of a post-political society either. On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles, a politics that counters political bureaucracy and representation. Democracy is "won" by a people forewarned that any dissolution of the political realm in its independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a genuinely human existence. In this explicitly heterodox reading of Marx, Miguel Abensour proposes a theory of "insurgent" democracy that makes political liberty synonymous with a living critique of domination.
Narcoland
This “investigative magnum opus” offers a jaw-dropping history of Mexican drug cartels as it transports readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times). “A riveting story . . . [from] an incredibly brave journalist.” —NPR The “war on drugs” has so far cost more than 60,000 lives. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. At every turn, Hernández names not just the narcos, but also the politicians, functionaries, judges, and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them. In doing so, she reveals the mind-boggling depth of corrupt...
Eighth International Symposium on Laser Metrology
Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.
Inside the Cuban Revolution
Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.
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