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CONTENIDO Presentación. Alvarez de Flores, Raquel y Otero Silva, Marlene Artículos Nuevo regionalismo: cómo la globalización reordena los tres mundos en desarrollo.The new regionalism: how globalization reorders the three worlds of development. Reynolds, Clark W. Globalización, integración regional, fronteras y movimientos laborales.Globalisation, regional economic integration, boundaries and organised labour. Linares de Gómez, Rosalba Modelos de desarrollo y estrategias de integración en América Latina: una revisión crítica.Developement models and integration strategies in Latin America: a critical review. Briceño Ruiz, José y Alvarez de Flores, Raquel El aferrarse juntos: la ambiciosa agenda externa del Mercosur, su crisis interna y el futuro de la integración económica regional en América del Sur.Clinging together: mercosur's ambitious external agenda, its internal crisis, and the future of regional economic integration in South America. Carranza, Mario E. El sector agropecuario mexicano: un quinquenio con el tratado de libre comercio de norteamérica. La pobreza y la desigualdad se intensifican, crece la migración.The Mexican agricultural sector: five years of the North America free trade agreement. The poverty and the inequality intensify, migration grows. Puyana, Alicia; Horbath, Jorge y Romero, José Opinión pública y legitimidad democrática de la Unión.Public opinion and democratic legitimacy in the European Union. Otero Silva, Marlene Reseña Roy, Joaquín; Chanona, Alejandro y Domínguez, Roberto: La unión europea y el TLCAN. integración regional comparada y relaciones mutuas. Reseñado por: Briceño Ruiz, José ; 163-179 ; omarlene@ula.ve, maotero@ula.ve ; semestral ; Nivel analítico

Una de las más importantes consecuencias de esta etapa modernizadora en los Estados del Cono Sur, es la recuperación del interés de la ciudadanía por los temas de la defensa y la reactivación de debates postergados sobre los militares. Si bien las materias de discusión de cada sociedad no son directamente comparables, se pueden identificar al menos cuatro factores comunes: la consolidación del mando civil de la defensa, las deudas sociales de las dictaduras militares, el alcance de las alianzas con otros países y el rol que les corresponde desempeñar en el marco de la democracia. El tipo de compromiso ciudadano que se consiga alcanzar en los países sudamericanos, será clave en el fortalecimiento de la institucionalidad de las Fuerzas Armadas. ; One of the most important consequences of the modernizing stage in the South Cone States is the recovery of citizen's interest in the defense subject and the reactivation of deferred debates on the military. Although the matters of discussion in each society are not directly comparable, at least, four common factors can be identified: the consolidation of the defense civil management, the social debts of military dictatorships, the reach of the alliances with other countries and their correspondent role within the framework of the democracy. The type of citizen commitment reached by South American countries will become a key factor in the institutional reinforcement of the Armed Forces.

La situación de incertidumbre institucional abierta en la Unión Europea tras el fiasco del Tratado Constitucional en los referendos de ratificación de Francia y Holanda de 2005 ha supuesto una profunda crisis del proyecto de integración tal como se estaba impulsando desde finales del pasado siglo, especialmente por el denominado «eje franco-alemán». Los primeros síntomas de la incubación de dicha crisis se detectaron ya en el proceso de ratificación del Tratado de la Unión Europea, en lo que significó el inicio de un creciente distanciamiento entre la opinión pública de algunos de los más importantes países comunitarios y el proyecto de integración europea. En este trabajo se analizan algunas de las causas de ese distanciamiento y la estrecha correlación del mismo con las divergencias de las elites políticas europeas en la definición de un proyecto vertebrador para una Europa en la que conviven muy distintas tradiciones y culturas políticas cuyos contrastes se han acentuado con las recientes ampliaciones a los países del antiguo bloque comunista. ; The institutional uncertainty ensuing on the fiasco of the Constitutional Treaty and its ratification referendums in France and the Netherland in 2005 has triggered a deep crisis in the integration project. Above all, this has affected the kind of treaty put forward since the end of the last century, especially by what has become known as the French-German Axis. The first symptoms of the coming crisis were detected in the process of ratifying the European Union Treaty, as the distance grew between the public opinion in some of the biggest Community members and the European integration project. This article analyses some of the causes for this distance and the close correlation it has with divergences between the European political élites in their definition of the project that should serve as a backbone for Europe, in which many different political cultures and traditions coexist, whose contrasts have been accentuated with recent enlargements to the countries from the old Communist block.

ABSTRACT: What is the public opinion They are opinions or they are belief? The opinions are more attitudes than beliefs. There are some opinions that are better to consider like beliefs. The public opinion reflects the attitudes related to policies of different individuals, through a diversity of subjects. What we can because to conclude about the effect of the characteristics of the social antecedents on the political attitudes? ; RESUMEN: ¿Qué es la opinión pública ¿Son opiniones o son creencia? Las opiniones son más actitudes que creencias. Hay algunas opiniones que es mejor considerar como creencias. La opinión pública refleja las actitudes relacionadas con políticas de diferentes individuos, a través de una diversidad de temas. ¿Qué podemos pues concluir acerca del efecto de las características de los antecedentes sociales sobre las actitudes políticas?

The percentage of Spanish citizens that have little or no confidence in the administration of justice is 55%. Why is this level of mistrust? Does it depend on endogenous factors, that is, on the way justice itself works or, on the contrary, are there exogenous factors determining individuals' trust in this institution like, for instance, ideology? Our results indicate that endogenous factors have more weight than exogenous factors determining the level of trust. Adapted from the source document.

This article deals with media roles in articulating consensus and reproducing establishment ideologies. It is analyzed public opinion as one of the most useful categories, invoked by journalists and politicians today, to illustrate consensus and to preserve the existing dominance relations. The last part of the article propose to examine specific media operations to construct reality, applying a methodology of discourse analysis to The New York Times´s coverage of Iraq´s war, three weeks before and one week after its outbreak.

Based on 2004 & 2006 "Mexico & the World" surveys, this paper explores the preferences & concerns of Mexican public & leaders in relation to international issues during the Vicente Fox administration. Jorge Schiavon makes a diagnosis of Mexicans' preference patterns regarding foreign issues during this period. He states that in recent years the number of domestic actors with international concerns has been increasing, & they must be effectively & efficiently represented by the Foreign Relations Secretariat. He also argues that data provided by those surveys may help to produce, conduct, & implement a single & harmonious Mexican foreign policy towards the world. Finally, this paper puts forward some institutional transformations aimed at ensuring the representation & coordination of the different stances, & therefore generating a foreign policy that may reflect Mexican people's preferences & concerns. References. Adapted from the source document.