Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...

From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to "break the cross and spill the wine," this book brings to life the Catholic Church's role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney provides a comprehensive guide to the remarkable path the Vatican has navigated to the present day, and a first-person...

The journalist and former U.S. State Department official explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.

In a distant war, in a city under siege, U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney faced a terrible choice: abandon the mission or risk the lives of his team to give diplomacy a last chance... In 2003, Liberia was one of the most dangerous and isolated countries in the world. President Charles Taylor, a feared warlord, presided over a fractured state and countless unruly militiamen and child soldiers as two rebel armies marched to depose him. When an international...

con el propósito de superar la clásica visión estado- céntrica, el hilo conductor de esta obra busca interpretar las fronteras como un espacio a través del cual las diferencias socio-espaciales se comunican, interactúan y se desarrollan. La primera parte de la obra, fronteras colombianas, está compuesta por cuatro trabajos que se aproximan, desde diferentes enfoques, al comercio y la integración binacional, la seguridad, las políticas públicas...

El gobierno de cada país es, sin duda, un actor importante en la competitividad internacional y su rol, en este sentido, es impulsar una robusta identidad en el escenario global, sostenida a largo plazo, con el objetivo final del crecimiento económico que estimule el crecimiento social y el bienestar de los ciudadanos. Este libro analiza casos y hace luz sobre las posibilidades reales de Argentina en el mundo.

"Esta obra no tiene una ambición distinta a la de estimular una reflexión sobre el alcance de la cultura en la política exterior de los Estados. Se sabe que la diplomacia y la política exterior constituyen un campo de estudio de las relaciones internacionales en constante expansión e imposible de agotar en un solo sentido o un una sola lectura. En consecuencia, este libro pretende constituir un insumo en la comprensión de una temática delimitada...

Las consecuencias del coronavirus son de distinto orden. En este libro se consideran algunas de las que afectan el orden mundial, el cual tendrá diversos impactos en la pospandemia. La pandemia de covid-19 no ha sido la primera ni tampoco será la última, en un mundo en el que la humanidad no ha sabido guardar la debida relación con la naturaleza y con el planeta. Se ha reaccionado con interpretaciones variadas sobre el coronavirus, algunas racionales...

This in-depth analysis goes behind the headlines to understand why crucial negotiations fail. The author argues that diplomats often enter negotiations with flawed assumptions about human behavior, sovereignty, and power. Essentially, the international community is using a model of European diplomacy dating back to the 18th century to solve the complex problems of the 21st century. Through numerous examples, the author shows that the key failure in...

Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond...