There is such a thing as an inexorable political process. One such phenomenom was the eventual transformation of the planet Earth into a single unit due to the accumulation of three types of technologies: transportation, communications and mass destruction. Although the triumph of capitalism was...

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 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...

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...

This paper counterpoises Carlos Escudé's 1994, 1995 and 1997 treatment of anthropomorphic metaphors of the state, with Alexander Wendt's 2004 treatment of the same subject. It stresses the need for a historical memory in IR scholarship, suggesting that the lack of an epistemological equivalent...

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...

If all cultures are morally equivalent, then all individuals are not essentially 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...

This is a sequel to UCEMA working paper # 277, and as such, the draft of the second chapter of a book project on Argentina as a 'parasite state', i.e., one that simultaneously lives off the rest of the world and consumes itself, harboring parasitical segments within its political elite,...

Cuando cayó Roma, su vasto imperio se segmentó en muchos sentidos, incluido el lingüístico. En las regiones romanizadas el latín vulgar evolucionó de manera diferente en cada parroquia, dando lugar a una multitud de lenguas vernáculas romances. En las regiones menos romanizadas renacieron...

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...