En este trabajo pasaremos revista a algunas consecuencias, para la Argentina en especial y América del Sur en general, del ascenso internacional de la República Popular China. Asimismo, se documentarán percepciones de amenaza engendradas en la potencia declinante, Estados Unidos, debido a la...

ENGLISH: This working paper documents research on inter-denominational philosophical convergences and intra-denominational philosophical divergences among the three main monotheistic faiths during the Middle Ages (600-1500), in the Mediterranean World and beyond. It surveys Jewish, Christian and...

Este ensayo reflexiona sobre la civilización occidental, el concepto de derechos humanos universales, y la aparente contradicción, ya señalada por Habermas, entre este concepto y el relativismo cultural. Comienza subrayando esta paradoja, resumiéndola en dos proposiciones contradictorias que...

The declassification of secret papers from the governmental archives of the United States and the United Kingdom makes it possible to document the instrumental use of the cause of human and civil rights for the attainment of pragmatic objectives of the United States government. At times, the...

If all cultures are morally equivalent, then all individuals are not endowed with the same human rights, because some cultures award some men more rights than are allotted to other men and women. If, on the other hand, all men and women are endowed with the same human rights, then all cultures...

One important cultural factor that has contributed to inhibiting regional cooperation and integration in Latin America lies in the intense territorial nationalism prevailing in some of its Spanish-speaking countries. This frequently understated phenomenon is an outgrowth of the territorial...

The present gobal conflict is not so much a clash of civilizations as a collision between the Weltanschauung of the liberal, secular West, and that of the extremist segment of Islam. It is a transcendent conflict in a realm that is non-negotiable, which can be described by the following dyad of...

Este documento intenta medir la penetración global del realismo periférico, una teoría de relaciones internacionales acuñada en Argentina durante los ’80 y ‘90. Contiene un listado de documentos de diversos países donde el realismo periférico es mencionado en títulos o subtítulos.

The social sciences are afflicted by a notable lack of cumulative development. A recent illustration of this phenomenon is a paper first published in September 2003 simultaneously by Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) and the United States Institute of Peace, under...

Argentina has more than twice the total debt of India whilst the latter has twenty-eight times more population in roughly equivalent territories. It was once a prosperous haven for poor Europeans, with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, but now half its population is underneath...