Gobierno multinivel y políticas de integración de los inmigrantes en contextos de federalismo asimétrico: los casos de Cataluña y Quebec

Esta investigación aborda el tema de la gestión de la diversidad cultural y lingüística proveniente de la inmigración en dos casos con presencia de nacionalismos minoritarios y desarrollos federales asimétricos como son Quebec-Canadá y Cataluña- España. Mientras Canadá es un país federal, España desarrolló un proceso de federalización desde la transición a la democracia, que además fue paralelo al desarrollo del Estado de Bienestar y que no ha terminado de ser reconocido como tal por todos los actores políticos y sociales, ni en el marco legal y constitucional. Ambos países sin embargo han experimentado desarrollos asimétricos para acomodar la diversidad interna y un entramado de relaciones intergubernamentales que les permitió enfrentar las complejidades del gobierno multinivel. En este contexto la pregunta central que busca responder esta investigación es ¿Cómo influyen las relaciones intergubernamentales sobre la formulación de las políticas de integración de los inmigrantes en Quebec y Cataluña entre 1995-1999 y 2011?. Es decir, nos preguntamos por la influencia de éstos desarrollos y de este entramado de relaciones intergubernamentales en la formulación de las políticas para integrar a los inmigrantes. Nuestro eje de análisis para la formulación de la política han sido Quebec y Cataluña, bajo una perspectiva de gobierno multinivel analizando sus relaciones con el gobierno federal y central de un lado y con las principales ciudades receptoras de inmigrantes como Montreal y Barcelona del otro, así como con las ONG y el sector asociativo. Adicionalmente se buscó identificar el papel de la Unión Europea sobre la formulación de las políticas de integración en Cataluña y España...

Ambivalent Sovereignty

Ambivalent Sovereignty inquires into the subject of political realism. This subject, sovereign authority, appears to have a dual foundation. It appears divided against itself, but how can realism nonetheless observe legitimate modes of sovereignty emerge? Against the liberal idea that a "synthesis" of both material-coercive and ideal-persuasive powers should be accomplished, within the world of international relations, realism gives meaning to a structural type of state power that is also constitutionally and legitimately dividing itself--against itself. Machiavelli but particularly also other realists such as Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, and Aristotle are being reinterpreted to demonstrate why each state's ultimate authority may symbiotically emerge from its self-divisions, rather than from one synthetic unity. Whereas liberal theorists, from Montesquieu to John Rawls and Alexander Wendt, err too far in assuming the presence of the state's monistic authority, the realist theorists further advance an answer to how sovereign states may begin to both recognize and include only the most-legitimate manifestations of their common dualist authority. Ambivalent Sovereignty is relevant in this sense as it transcends-and-yet-includes these common dualities: freedom/necessity; emergence/causation; self-organization/power structures.

Sovereignty and Intervention in the Middle East: From the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring

This research provides an institutional explanation of the practices of external intervention in the Arab state system from the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 to the Arab Spring. My explanation consists of two institutional variables: sovereignty and inter-state borders. I examine the changes in regional and international norms of sovereignty and their impact on the practices of external intervention in the Arab state system. I also examine the impact of the level of institutionalization of inter-state borders in the Arab World on the practices of external intervention. I argue that changes in regional and international norms of sovereignty and changes in the level of institutionalization of inter-state borders have constituted the significant variation over time in both the frequency and type of external intervention in the Arab state system from 1922 to the present. My institutional explanation and findings seriously challenge the traditional accounts of sovereignty and intervention in the Arab World, including the cultural perspectives that emphasize the conflict between sovereignty, Arabism, and Islam, the constructivist accounts that emphasize the regional norm of pan-Arabism, the comparative politics explanations that focus on the domestic material power of the Arab state, the post-colonial perspectives that emphasize the artificiality of the Arab state, and the realist accounts that focus on great powers and the regional distribution of power in the Middle East. This research also contributes to International Relations Theory. I construct a new analytical framework to study the relations between sovereignty, borders, and intervention, combining theoretical elements from the fields of Role Theory, Social Constructivism, and Institutionalization. Methodologically, this research includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis. I conduct content analysis of official documents of Arab states and the Arab League, Arabic press documents, and Arab political thought. I also utilize quantitative data sets on international intervention.

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