La seguridad humana y la seguridad multidimensional a debate. Vulnerabilidades, riesgos y amenazas en el mundo del siglo XXI


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De la seguridad humana a la seguridad multidimensional a debate. Vulnerabilidades, riesgos y amenazas en el mundo del siglo XXI, constituye un esfuerzo de análisis en el que 11 autores, todos ellos académicos, afiliados a prestigiadas instituciones como la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, El Colegio de Veracruz, el Instituto Nacional Electoral, la Universidad de Calgary, la Universidad de Georgetown, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y la Universidad de Guadalajara, analizan en sendos capítulos, la importancia y pertinencia de la seguridad humana y de la seguridad multidimensional como marcos de referencia para el abordaje de temas tan diversos y relevantes como el terrorismo internacional, los derechos humanos, el proteccionismo y la bioseguridad, la seguridad energética, las relaciones entre Canadá y Estados Unidos, las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos, la delincuencia organizada transnacional, el tráfico ilícito de armas pequeñas y ligeras y el poder naval, entre otros.










Contemporary Security Studies


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'Contemporary Security Studies' introduces students to the broad range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the 21st century and provides up-to-date coverage of traditional and non-traditional threats to survival.




Migrating to Opportunity


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Acknowledgements -- Overview -- Workers in southeast Asia are on the move -- Migration in ASEAN -- The determinants of migration in ASEAN and the importance of labor mobility costs -- The impacts of migration in ASEAN -- Trade integration and labor mobility in the ASEAN economic community -- Migration policy in the ASEAN region -- Reducing migration costs in ASEAN -- List of figures




Globalization and Environmental Challenges


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Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.










The State of State Reforms in Latin America


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Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.




Breaking the Poverty Code


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Transcending the Mexican context, this book fuses the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.