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This review is inspired by the dichotomy the authors observe in the ways Anglo and Mediterranean countries developed to control the risk. While countries as US, Germany and Holland are on the top of the risk-mitigation policies and bio-technology, others such as Spain, Italy and Argentina have left behind in the race. In this discussion the authors complement the contribution of Max Weber arguing that the sense of predestination, which was enrooted in Ancient Norse Mythology, was a criterion enough to develop the capitalism. However, this does not correspond with "the Reform", but on the way ancient Germans celebrated the war. Unlike Greeks, Germans developed a sense of predestination to understand the future. At some extent, they were responsible for initiating the process of secularization, but once done, they appealed to technology for two peruses. On one hand, technology alluded to a control of the closed-future, but at the same time it allowed the implementation of steps to expand the life. On this context, terrorism (as a risk) is important for American society because it gives further value to capitalist mind, the control of future.

Individuación, precariedad, Inseguridad es una obra editada en cinco secciones, escritas por reconocidos sociólogos quienes se convocaron el 1 de marzo de 2011 en una conferencia organizada por la Casa Argentina en París. Robert Castel, Denis Merklen, Numa Murard y Gabriel Kessler focalizan en el tema de la vulnerabilidad ciudadana del presente, las relaciones productivas en la modernidad y el rol del riesgo en la vida social de las personas, entre los temas más importantes. Si bien a primera vista, cada argumento parece (por tratarse de diversas personas) contradictorio con los restantes, lo cierto es que una lectura profunda revela todo lo contrario.

The present essay review propones a new model to understand the nature of risk. The authors hereby argue that risks help the society to function. Not only the sum-zero risk society is impossible, but also would affect seriously the economy of capitalist society. Therefore, insurances and risk are inexorably intertwined. The authors have explored three valid indicators toward the construction of a general-index of risk, which not only can be homologable to other nations, but also comparable among cultures. Communities may be studied by their way of perceiving risks. Beyond the debate on if terrorism is or not a risk, the goals of this review is twofold. Firstly, it is important to explore the economic nature of terrorism to discern their causes. Secondly, it is necessary to build a valid index that reflects how a society feels.

La forma que emplearon los reinos de España e Inglaterra para colonizar América creó un puente insalvable entre ambos mundos. De este punto se ocupa la investigadora Nicole Guidotti-Hernández en su libro Unspeakable Violence. La tesis principal de este excelente trabajo es que la violencia corresponde a formas estereotipadas, las cuales ayudan a comprender los eventos pasados y que, de alguna u otra manera, le dan sentido a los estados nacionales.