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En los últimos meses se ha puesto otra vez de actualidad la teoría del "ascenso pacífico" de China, un planteamiento vinculado generalmente a especialistas en relaciones internacionales situados en el entorno del presidente Hu Jintao. Se trata de una respuesta a la tesis de la "amenaza" china, particularmente popular en EEUU. Este análisis repasa, en primer lugar, los contornos del auge de China en el escenario internacional. En segundo término, expone la tesis de la "amenaza" china, tal y como la han presentado algunos analistas y políticos estadounidenses. En tercer lugar, resume la teoría del "ascenso pacífico", desarrollada por especialistas chinos del entorno del presidente Hu Jintao. Finalmente, hace un balance de los argumentos de las dos teorías, para concluir que la "amenaza" presente y potencial de China ha sido claramente exagerada.

This paper describes the Latino vote in the 2004 presidential election. It pays particular attention to conflicting claims regarding the extent to which Latinos voted for President Bush. It also evaluates the overall impact Latinos had on the results of the election. The 2004 election lived down to expectations. It closely followed the pattern set in 2000. That is, President Bush's victory slightly expanded his electoral base by adding Iowa and New Mexico to the states he carried previously while only losing New Hampshire from the states he won in 2000. Additionally while he lost the popular vote in 2000 by 539,947 votes, in 2004 he won it by 3,311,608, increasing his percentage of the vote from 48% to 51%. President Bush, thus, won in 2004 with a small minority that provides a legitimate basis for claiming a clear victory but not a mandate.

Transcript of annual speech given by Governor Mark Sanford to both houses of the state legislature in joint opening session to report on the condition of the state of South Carolina.

This study explores the most fundamental issue of identity politics in Taiwan, namely, the dimensionality of and the delicate relationship between ethnic identity and national identity. By applying latent class (LC) factor analysis to 12 items of the Taiwan's Election and Democratization Study (TEDS) 2001 survey, we first confirm that Taiwanese/Chinese identity and national identity are two analytically different dimensions. We then employ LC cluster analysis to determine the number of latent classes in each of these two dimensions. We find that the so-called 'objective' measure of the 'four major ethnic groups' based on respondents' fathers' ethnicity does not correspond very well with either of the two dimensions of identity. Furthermore, the distribution of national identity among ethnic groups displays much greater variation than only a Taiwanese/Chinese identity does. More specifically, mainlanders show the highest degree of homogeneity in national identity, whereas native Taiwanese show substantial heterogeneity. Although our findings do not defy the common practice of using a fathers' ethnicity as an 'objective' indicator of ethnicity, they do remind us that identity politics in Taiwan are multidimensional in nature and deserve more careful study.

Eulogizes Piccone (1940-2004), senior editor of Telos, referring to him as the engine for the evolution of intellectual exchange following the collapse of the New Left.

"What about religion?" Today, this crucial question is answered differently on both Atlantic shores. International comparative studies suggest that the "laical universe" Europe has taken a singular path regarding national sovereignty -- contrary to laical Turkey. Adapted from the source document.