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Este libro está dedicado a la memoria del sociólogo Gino Germani. En la estructura del texto se reproduce la del Congreso Internacional sobre los límites de la democracia realizado en Roma a fines de 1980, en la Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociale. Este libro es una revisión crítica, histórica y sociológica de recientes procesos de transformación social y política que atañen de especial manera a la construcción de la democracia contemporánea. El lector encontrará importantes aportes analíticos que le serán útiles para la comprensión de las posibilidades y utopías de la nueva democracia latinoamericana, entendida no sólo como campo político y legal legítimo, sino también como la búsqueda de un amplio y permanente horizonte humano: el de la libertad.

Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism collects works from the leading scholars on terrorism from an array of disciplines—including communication, political science, sociology, global studies, and public policy—to establish appropriate research frameworks for understanding how we construct our understanding of terrorism

Born in 1945, the United Nations came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding geopolitical tensions in key international conflicts in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods, such as hostilities between Palestine and Iraq and between Libya and Syria. Much has changed over the past seven decades, but what has not changed is the central role played by the UN. This book's claim is that the UN is a constant site of struggle in the Arab world and equally that the Arab world serves as a location for the UN to define itself against the shifting politics of its age. Looking at the UN from the standpoint of the Arab world, this volume collects some of the finest scholars and practitioners writing about the potential and the problems of a UN that is framed by both the promises of its Charter and the contradictions of its member states. This is a landmark book—a close and informed study of the UN in the region that taught the organization how to do its many jobs