La guerra europea y la política internacional : lecciones sobre la historia de la relaciones internacionales de Europa en el siglo XIX /

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Referéndum sobre la permanencia del Reino Unido en la Unión Europea: Consecuencias

Análisis de síntesis sobre las condiciones de permanencia sobre las que los británicos se pronuncian en el referéndum de 2016 y también las consecuencias para las relaciones exteriores y la seguridad de Europa. Igualmente se estudian las consecuencias en el estatuto de Gibraltar.

Territorio, integridad territorial y fronteras del Estado en la Unión Europea

Este trabajo clarifica conceptos ambiguos e imprecisos como "territorio de la Unión"; se cosntata que el territorio es de los Estados miembros. También puntualiza las diferencias entre territorio y ámbito de aplicación territorial del derecho de la Unión. Analiza diversos aspectos relativos a las fronteras interiores y exteriores; establece la relación entre el respeto a las fronteras de los Estados y la defensa de la integridad territorial del Estado.

De Río a Madrid: límites y posibilidades de las relaciones Unión Europea-América Latina

El pasado mes de mayo, durante el semestre de la Presidencia española de la Unión Europea, se celebró en Madrid la II Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe. Esta reunión debería haber proporcionado un nuevo impulso político a la “Asociación Estratégica” que ambas regiones acordaron en la I Cumbre, celebrada en Río de Janeiro en junio de 1999. Sin embargo, a pesar del tono complaciente de las declaraciones oficiales, la Cumbre de Madrid parece confirmar que Latinoamérica ha perdido importancia en las relaciones exteriores de la Unión Europea, y que ésta ha abandonado la estrategia interregionalista del decenio anterior, que pretendía establecer un marco de relación privilegiado entre ambas regiones. Las exigencias de la ampliación al Este, el compromiso europeo con las negociaciones de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC), y la primacía de la seguridad en la agenda internacional tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre son algunos de los factores que explican el estancamiento de las relaciones eurolatinoamericanas en sus tres ámbitos mas relevantes: el diálogo político, la cooperación al desarrollo y las cuestiones comerciales.

Crisis of work as a social integration factor

This article analyzes the process of deterioration of the work as a source of social rights and as a social integration element. The context of this process is the passage of a wage-labour society with stable employment to other where the labour relations are deregulated. This aim was tackled by means of quantitative and qualitative techniques. Secondary sources of statistical information were used together with interviews to experts of the institutional sphere. The results of this research show the emergence of a new exclusive model of social cohesion based on intensification and generalization of social inequalities and job insecurity. In this new model of social cohesion, it is noted that the integration strategies of people have less and less support from Government and people are neglected. This process appears in the four spheres that classify the social exclusion risks factors: the structural, the institutional, the relational and the individual.

Late-career international migration and reproductive work. A comparison between Peruvian and Ukrainian women in the Southern Europe

Research on the relationship between reproductive work and women´s life trajectories including the experience of labour migration has mainly focused on the case of relatively young mothers who leave behind, or later re-join, their children. While it is true that most women migrate at a younger age, there are a significant number of cases of men and women who move abroad for labour purposes at a more advanced stage, undertaking a late-career migration. This is still an under-estimated and under-researched sub-field that uncovers a varied range of issues, including the global organization of reproductive work and the employment of migrant women as domestic workers late in their lives. By pooling the findings of two qualitative studies, this article focuses on Peruvian and Ukrainian women who seek employment in Spain and Italy when they are well into their forties, or older. A commonality the two groups of women share is that, independently of their level of education and professional experience, more often than not they end up as domestic and care workers. The article initially discusses the reasons for late-career female migration, taking into consideration the structural and personal determinants that have affected Peruvian and Ukrainian women’s careers in their countries of origin and settlement. After this, the focus is set on the characteristics of domestic employment at later life, on the impact on their current lives, including the transnational family organization, and on future labour and retirement prospects. Apart from an evaluation of objective working and living conditions, we discuss women’s personal impressions of being domestic workers in the context of their occupational experiences and family commitments. In this regard, women report varying levels of personal and professional satisfaction, as well as different patterns of continuity-discontinuity in their work and family lives, and of optimism towards the future. Divergences could be, to some extent, explained by the effect of migrants´ transnational social practices and policies of states.

TTIP vs. BRICS: Consequences on Geopolitics and Internacional Relations of the XXIst. Century

The TTIP is a proposal on negotiations between the EU and the USA in order to create the largest free international trade area by extension, population and volume of trade of all existing ones. In our view, TTIP would be the geoeconomic answer to BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), as a comercial, geopolitical and cooperation space in other areas such as the military, in both that TTIP reproduce on a commercial scale the political and military alliance already existing between good part of the EU and USA by the NATO. In this paper we will try to explain why the possible rivalry between TTIP and BRICS would reproduce in the XXIst. Century the schemes of “Cold War” inherited from XXth. Century, that in turn reproduced the geopolitical confrontations arising from the theory of Haltford McKinder pivot area and the traditional opposition between thalassocratic imperialisms (government on the seas and oceans) and tellurocratic imperialisms (government on an enormous portion of emerged land). Likewise, we will try to show why, at a dialectic of States level, the most populated, territorially extensive and with greater amount of resources political societies will be those that have the greatest ability to impose a particular model of international relations and its geopolitical hegemony on a universal scale in response to this viable confrontation between TTIP, plus TTP, vs. BRICS.

El PCE y el movimiento comunista internacional (1969-1977)

El artículo se centra en la actividad internacional del Partido Comunista de España (PCE) desde las secuelas de la represión de la Primavera de Praga hasta 1977. Fue un período caracterizado por el principio del declive definitivo del movimiento comunista internacional. El análisis abarca múltiples cuestiones. Examina las crecientes críticas del PCE hacia el modelo soviético, y sus repercusiones en las relaciones entre el partido liderado por Santiago Carrillo y el movimiento comunista. Además, el artículo explora el intento del PCE de promover un nuevo tipo de internacionalismo en Europa occidental, auspiciando una renovada colaboración entre comunistas y socialistas y aprovechando las condiciones brindadas por la distensión. En este contexto tuvo lugar el surgimiento del eurocomunismo, que el ensayo analiza ilustrando los factores internos y externos que determinaron su crisis en la segunda mitad de los setenta.