El futuro de Colombia en la Cuenca del Pacífico

Cuando en 1982 Pablo Escobar fue elegido como miembro de la Cámara de Representantes, no lo hizo simplemente para obtener prestigio, sino para incidir directa y personalmente en decisiones legislativas, constituyéndose en un antecedente contemporáneo de procesos de infiltración, captura y cooptación de instituciones que durante las siguientes tres décadas marcarían la génesis reciente de la ilegalidad en Colombia. Aunque organizaciones criminales – como los carteles de Medellín, Cali y norte del Valle, así como grupos paramilitares y guerrilleros, y bandas delincuenciales...

La Unión Europea se amplía, pero la afirmación de las identidades nacionales no se debilita. En realidad, es la sustancia misma de la historia de Europa que sigue manifestándose, pues siempre se han producido tensiones y compromisos entre las ambiciosas construcciones políticas (empezando por el imperio de Carlomagno) y la irreductible diversidad cultural de las poblaciones afectadas. "Un análisis inteligente y seductor de los pueblos de Europa occidental, en su doble dimensión geográfica e histórica, desde los reinos bárbaros hasta la Unión Europea. Un espacio abierto a todas las...

Alberto Müller was born in Havana, Cuba, on May 23, 1939.He studied at the Columbus School (first education);Institute of Havana (admission);Belén & Escolapios de Guanabacoa(secondary education);Law at the University of Havana;Bachelor of Arts at St. Thomas University, Miami, Master in International Relations at FIU, Miami. In February 1960, he organized a student demonstration repudiating the visit to Cuba of Anastas Mikoyán, the Soviet leader who led the massacre of the Hungarian people in 1956.He organized in Miami, together with other students, he Student Revolutionary Directory, an...

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...