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Author : Harvey F. Kline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Energy Policy and the Colombian Elite written by Harvey F. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429713533
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Energy Politics In Colombia written by René De La Pedraja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, covering the period since 1920, attempts to answer Colombia's failure to properly utilize its vast reserves of coal, hydroelectricity, and petroleum. It examines Colombia's policies concerning a broad range of representative energy development projects.
Author : Benedicte Bull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317653793
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Environmental Politics in Latin America written by Benedicte Bull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to protect the environment from over-exploitation and contamination have been related to marginalized groups’ struggles against local, national and transnational elites. The recent rise of progressive, left-leaning governments – often supported by groups struggling for environmental justice – has challenged the established elites and raised expectations about new regimes for natural resource management. Based on case-studies in eight Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador and Guatemala), this book investigates the extent to which there have been elite shifts, how new governments have related to old elites, and how that has impacted on environmental governance and the management of natural resources. It examines the rise of new cadres of technocrats and the old economic and political elites’ struggle to remain influential. The book also discusses the challenges faced in trying to overcome structural inequalities to ensure a more sustainable and equitable governance of natural resources. This timely book will be of great interest to researchers and masters students in development studies, environmental management and governance, geography, political science and Latin American area studies.
Author : Pamela S. Murray
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817308391
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Development written by Pamela S. Murray and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams of Development explores the relationship between higher education and Colombian national development by tracing the history of one of Colombia's most important institutions of higher education, the National School of Mines (Escuela Nacional de Minas) of Medellin. Murray addresses three questions: How did the Escuela form national elites, including politicians, businesspeople, and technocrats destined to play prominent roles in industry and government after 1900? To what extent have such elites shaped the development process? And finally, how has the Escuela's evolution reflected such changes in Colombian society as the rise of an urban middle sector and more active roles for women seeking the opportunities associated with an engineering degree? Murray's analysis of a single institution makes this book valuable both to Colombianists and to other scholars interested in the development of modern Latin American higher education. It also provides unique insight into the positivistic ideals and values that have shaped Colombian and other Latin American elites and dictated the destiny of their countries.
Author : Harvey F. Kline
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429719019
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Colombia written by Harvey F. Kline and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Colombia is the third-largest country in Latin America, it has been little known until recent years and does not fit many of the patterns common to other countries in the region. Competition between political parties, for example, has always been more important than class conflict; there is no tradition of military dictatorship; and corporatist structures are weak. Over the past decade, however, Colombia has gained notoriety, principally as the supplier of 80 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States. The second edition of this comprehensive country profile begins with a discussion of the blend of Andean and Caribbean characteristics that define Colombia, particularly in its geography, demography, and social structure. The author then presents a detailed political history that extends from before the arrival of the Spanish, including a portrait of early Amerindian populations, and continues through the turbulence of guerrilla, drug, and paramilitary violence in the 1980s and constitutional reforms of the 1990s. Harvey Kline argues that Colombia is now conscientiously attempting to alter historical patterns that have led it to play a key role in the international drug trade and to lead the world in the rate of homicides. A chapter on the economy offers a historical analysis of its evolution and examines economic and trade policies of recent presidents. Finally, the author looks at the international dimension of Colombian politics, especially its long-standing relationship with the United States and its increasingly important regional ties.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Occasional Papers Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Nephew
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542550
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Art of Sanctions written by Richard Nephew and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not just on the initial sanctions strategy but also, crucially, on how to calibrate along the way and how to decide when sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness. Nephew—a leader in the design and implementation of sanctions on Iran—develops guidelines for interpreting targets’ responses to sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. The efficacy of sanctions lies in the application of pain against a target, but targets may have significant resolve to resist, tolerate, or overcome this pain. Understanding the interplay of pain and resolve is central to using sanctions both successfully and humanely. With attention to these two key variables, and to how they change over the course of a sanctions regime, policy makers can pinpoint when diplomatic intervention is likely to succeed or when escalation is necessary. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on both Iran and Iraq, Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain and resolve in the service of strong and successful sanctions regimes.
Author : Steven Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537689
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Understanding Environmental Policy written by Steven Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving leaks in underground storage tanks, toxic waste cleanup, and the effects of global climate change. This second edition demonstrates the ongoing effectiveness of the book's framework in generating meaningful action and policy solutions to current environmental issues. The text adds case examples concerning congestion taxes, e-waste, hydrofracking, and recent developments in global climate change, updating references and other materials throughout and incorporating the political and policy changes of the Obama administration's first term and developments in national and global environmental issues.
Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Who Rules America Now? written by G. William Domhoff and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Author : Jakob Skovgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416799
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform written by Jakob Skovgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : James Petras
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780329954
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The New Extractivism written by James Petras and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Background Notes, Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Heller Dix
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Politics of Colombia written by Robert Heller Dix and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the relationship between the United States and Latin America becomes an important focus of world attention, The Politics of Colombia is a welcome study of this South American country. A comprehensive analysis of the international influences on Colombian politics, as well as of the country's policymaking processes, this book will introduce the reader to one of the more important, yet least known, countries of the hemisphere.
Author : John-Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731094
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sovereign Forces written by John-Andrew McNeish and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region. Exploring cases of resource contestation in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala, Sovereign Forces highlights the value of these relationships to the practice of environmental governance and peacebuilding in the region.
Author : Marco Palacios
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337676
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Between Legitimacy and Violence written by Marco Palacios and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVComprehensive overview of modern Colombian history considers why Colombia's long-established, stable political institutions have not been able to prevent frequent and extreme violence./div
Author : John A. Hall
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415086837
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The State written by John A. Hall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state is a concept surrounded with much dispute. What exactly is the state? Does it act impartially? What changes has it undergone? These three volumes provide a reliable and comprehensive guide to these questions.
Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Political Sociology written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the intricate dynamics of power, social order, and political participation with "Political Sociology," a key volume in the "Political Science" series. This essential guide offers profound insights into how societies govern themselves and the forces behind political change, perfect for professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike. Chapters Overview: 1. Political Sociology: Introduction to the field and its significance. 2. State (polity): The state’s formation, functions, and influence on social order. 3. Social class: Impact on political participation and power dynamics. 4. Conflict theories: Theories explaining political behavior and institutional change. 5. Cultural hegemony: Gramsci’s concept and its role in political power and social control. 6. C. Wright Mills: Theories on power elites and their modern relevance. 7. Political Parties: Their role in shaping political landscapes and representing social interests. 8. Ruling class: Understanding power structures in society. 9. Social stratification: Effects on political inequality and mobility. 10. Nicos Poulantzas: Theories on state power and class relations. 11. History of sociology: Sociology’s development and contributions to political analysis. 12. Elite: Role of elites in political systems and policy-making. 13. Seymour Martin Lipset: Work on democracy, social conditions, and political behavior. 14. Elite theory: Explanations for power concentration in societies. 15. Fred L. Block: Relationship between the economy and state politics. 16. Miliband–Poulantzas debate: Intellectual debate on state theory and class power. 17. Invisible Class Empire: Concept and implications for global power dynamics. 18. Structural Marxism: Structuralist approach to Marxism in political sociology. 19. Base and superstructure: Marxist framework's relevance to contemporary analysis. 20. Instrumental Marxism: State as an instrument of the ruling class. 21. State derivation: Theories on the origin and function of the state. "Political Sociology" answers pressing questions about the intersection of society and politics, offering invaluable insights for a deeper understanding of political dynamics. This book is not just an academic resource; it is a gateway to comprehending the forces that shape our world.
