Search results for "Reign"

Attempts at diversification: Mexico and Pacific Asia

2002

This article aims to explain the development of Mexico's relations with Pacific Asia. Based on the historical background of Mexico's relations with Asia and on internal and international transformations, we identify the interests of Mexican political actors in Pacific Asia. We provide an overview of the existing political and economic relations between Mexico and Pacific Asia, demonstrating that the success of diversification has been very limited. By trying to explain the gap between the strategic goals and the existing relations we focus on the domestic politics in Mexico. We conclude that intra-elite conflicts had a negative effect on the diversification attempts, since those conflicts p…

Who speaks? : renegotiating sovereign and metaphysical discourses in politics and law.

2016

The article deals with the theme of the subject in politics and law, which is essentially also the theme of who speaks. A focus on the voice is regarded here as paramount.

Biopoder y género: las vidas desnudas de la guerra

2014

ABSTRACT Faced with this new global sovereignty, which is supported by "societies in control" and whose fundamental political scene is the "bios", I am interested in tracking gender within the following parameters: politics/women/war. RESUMEN Frente a esta nueva soberania global, sostenida por las “sociedades control” y cuyo escenario politico primordial es el “bios”, me interesa rastrear las marcas de genero en la triada: politica/mujeres/guerra.

Warfare in Livonia at the beginning of the 18th century in relations of English ambassador Philippe Plantamour from Berlin

2019

An important element in current historical research is the analysis of diplomatic relations focusing on the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. They show the history of the Polish-Lithuanian state, its internal and foreign policy from a different historical perspective. In 1700, the Great Northern War broke out and changed the political power system in Central and Eastern Europe for the next decades. Diplomats from foreign courts were interested in this war, including Philippe Plantamour, secretary of the British embassy in Berlin. He sent his reports to the British Isles in which he posted information on warfare in Livonia. The aim of the article will be to analyze diplomatic reports that can h…

The State Power and the Limits of the Principle of Sovereignty: An Historical Approach

2012

This chapter explores the notion of sovereignty and the limits of state power in the framework of criminal justice. It is not an easy enterprise to counter terrorism while respecting the rule of law and guaranteeing the security of citizens to the maximum extent possible without violating their fundamental rights. Theoretically, modern constitutionalism emerged to protect citizens from political abuses of power. In practice, however, fundamental rights are not always fully respected since the state is often tempted to exercise its power beyond legal boundaries. To limit the power of the state means to limit its sovereignty. Otherwise, the abuses of power by the state become inevitable. Surp…

Mozambique’s Megaproject-Based Economic Model: Still Struggling with Uneven Development?

2019

Megaprojects in aluminium production, coal and natural gas extraction, and hydropower generation play a key role in the Mozambican economy. Based on the concepts of global value chains and linkages, this chapter shows that remarkable transformations are taking place in these sectors, including the expansion of production, the attraction of FDI and the emergence of new players from the Global South who now compete with transnational companies from traditional economic partner countries of Mozambique. The authors highlight potentials (in terms of economic transformation, especially positive side effects through the provision of electricity and rehabilitation of transport infrastructure) as we…

An emotional framework in foreign language pedagogy : facing the Postmethod challenge

2015

Imagining the West in the Era of America First

2019

This chapter focuses on the debates revolving around President Donald Trump’s “America First”-policy from the perspectives of the main actors engaged in discussions on US foreign policy: the president and the administration, Congress, public and expert opinion, and media. We uncover three overlapping crisis narratives present in the debates: crisis of Western values, crisis of the liberal international order, and crisis of US leadership and analyze how the idea and concept of the West is utilized in these narratives. First, we argue that the concept of the West is eminently useful and effective in political rhetoric because of its familiarity, plasticity, and emotiveness. This is why both t…

Navigating Stormy Waters: The Triangular Relationship between the United States, Vietnam and China and the South China Sea Disputes

2016

The growing triangular relationship between the U.S., Vietnam and China represents an interesting case study as to how the smaller powers around the South China Sea try to balance China’s increasing assertiveness in the region by engaging the United States. Analyzing the respective sets of bilateral relationships (U.S.-Vietnam and China-Vietnam) hence seems to be promising in order to understand the conflict dynamics in the South China Sea against the background of an often assumed, to a lesser degree examined regional (and eventually global) power transition dynamic. Vietnam has a checkered history with both the U.S. and China, all the while these countries are its most important economic …

Il recupero scolastico dei bambini stranieri. Una ricerca-intervento con il coinvolgimento degli studenti del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formaz…

2016

Accade spesso che nonostante l'impegno quotidiano degli inse- gnanti, gli alunni delle scuole delle zone più deprivate delle cit- tà vivano con profondo malessere i tradizionali ritmi scolasti- ci, che dimostrino un diffuso disimpegno per le attività di stu- dio e che spesso abbandonino il percorso scolastico. Pur essendo in possesso di sufficienti potenzialità cognitive, gli alunni culturalmente e socialmente svantaggiati non riescono ad adat- tarsi ai normali schemi delle proposte formative-curricolari, spesso entrano in conflitto con l'istituzione scolastica e con gli insegnanti e di conseguenza abbandonano il percorso formativo (Coggi, 2009). Gli alunni stranieri richiedono un'atten…