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Mit dem Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker erhielt zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges ein Grundsatz zusätzlichen Anschub, der auch jenseits der in Paris ausgehandelten Friedensverträge weltweit Machtverschiebungen nach sich zog und noch heute Fragen aufwirft. (APuZ)

Este texto se propone analizar la militancia de jóvenes mexicanos identificados con el catolicismo integral-intransigente. A finales de la década de 1970, un grupo de ellos participó en el Consejo Nacional de Estudiantes para expresar su rechazo al gobierno mexicano; al Consejo acudieron agrupaciones similares de otros países. Aquí se presenta una cronología que permite identificar y caracterizar las acciones de esa militancia juvenil. ; This article aims to analyze the militancy of young Mexicans identified with integral-intransigent Catholicism. At the end of the 1970s a group of them participated in the National Student Council to express their opposition to the Mexican government; similar groups from other countries turned to the Council. A chronology is presented to permit the identification and characterization of the actions of that intransigent youth militancy.

Dominant development discourse holds that water scarcity reflects geophysical limitations, lack of infrastructure or lack of government provision. However, this paper outlines the ways in which scarcity can only be fully explained in the context of development, specifically, neoliberal economic policies and related notions of good governance. Water is Lesotho's primary natural resource, yet many of its inhabitants remain severely water insecure. Presently, decentralization and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) are embraced in Lesotho as a philosophy and method to engage varied stakeholders and to empower community members. Using a water committee in Qalo, Lesotho as a case study, this paper explores the micro-politics of water governance. As individuals contest who is responsible for managing water resources for the village—by aligning themselves with traditional chiefs, elected officials, or neither—they transform or reinforce specific hydro-social configurations. While decentralized resource management aims to increase equity and local ownership over resources, as well as moderate the authority of traditional chiefs, water access is instead impacted by conflicts over management responsibility for water resources. Drawing on theories of political ecology and governmentality to extend recent scholarship on IWRM, this paper re-centers the political in water governance by situating local tensions within national policies and development agendas and demonstrating how scarcity is hydro-social.

This book features several introductory readings about the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), a strategic development initiative launched by the Chinese Government under the leadership of President Xi Jinping in 2013 to jointly build an economic belt along the Silk Road. Some of the key objectives of BRI, previously known as One Belt, One Road (OBOR) or Silk Road Economic Belt, include promoting infrastructure development, trade and investments in Asia, Europe and Africa. BRI is a gigantic development initiative whose key components include the creation of several interconnected economic land corridors (=belts): China–Mongolia–Russia; China–Central Asia– West Asia, China–Pakistan, the China–Indochina peninsula and Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar.