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Abstract
The Russian leadership envisages Russia as a bridge connecting East and West via Asiatic Russia. Nevertheless, this self-image seemingly does not fully correspond to the current trends; moreover, it is unclear what the Russian Government tries to 'bridge' as it has been unable to construct a bridge across the Lena River connecting Yakutsk, the capital of its largest Republic, to Russian mainland. This work attempts to examine both the external and internal dimension for the Russian Far East of Russia's 'turn' to Asia, and the way Sakha Republic experiences the tension between the domestic and international dimensions of this 'turn' to the East.

Historically, the Arctic has been much more important to Russia than to other Arctic countries. In Soviet times, the development of the Arctic was of paramount importance and it was used by the Soviet government to legitimise its great power status to domestic and international audiences. It is argued in this paper that the administration of President Putin has re-established a narrative on Russia as an Arctic power. In this sense, Russia not only seeks to exploit natural resources and develop the Northern Sea Route, but to project status as it conceives of itself as a great power. This paper suggests that the Arctic is not only becoming more important for Russia itself but also for Northeast Asian countries, as China, Japan and South Korea require a stable regional environment and secure supply of natural resources, which are essential for their prosperity and stability. In this sense, diverse partnerships are being developed between Russian and Northeast Asian countries; this work analyses the key components of those partnerships and its potential benefits. The development of the Far North constitutes an essential component in Russia's larger and long-term project to develop Asiatic Russia. It would be fallacious to examine Russia's Arctic strategy only through the prism of the current confrontation between Russia and the West. Keywords: Russia, great power, Arctic, Far North, Northeast Asia, China, Japan, South Korea.

[UN]Precedented Pyongyang is an urban research on how Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, was reconstructed from the Korean War based on the idea of socialist urbanism and how those socialist urban spaces will transform when it adopts the new market-economy system.0Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily witness various socio-economic changes of the nation which was seen in the 1990s in other post-socialist countries. And as the capital of the nation, Pyongyang has already entered into fast transformation stage with numbers of developments both in public and private sectors since the new regime of Kim Jung Un.0However, we sometimes overlook the fact that the city was built based on the goal to be an ideal socialist city. After the three years of Korean War in the 1950s, Pyongyang was completely demolished and had a unique chance to build a new city based on the socialist ideology. Although the current morphology may not be exactly same as the original master plan, many urban spaces and infrastructures remain as evidences of socialist urban planning. And interestingly enough, these are urban elements that have major conflict with the idea of market-oriented economy, and at the moment, the morphology of the city is already changing. Then, the question is, will Pyongyang become one of post-socialist cities, having them as precedents to the city, or will it have its own development path that is unprecedented?

El papel que cumple el sector extractivo en la economía ha sido un tema de amplio debate. Este artículo analiza el crecimiento de la inversión canadiense en Colombia, particularmente hacia las actividades extractivas. Los resultados indican que el incremento en los últimos años de la explotación de carbón, petróleo y oro, entre otros, ha generado consecuencias negativas en la economía nacional, el medioambiente, la salud y vulneración de derechos humanos y laborales, e incluso las empresas canadienses, suscri-tas bajo un acuerdo de ética y responsabilidad en el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia-Canadá, han estado en el centro de la crítica.

A obra Pilhagem: quando o Estado de Direito é ilegal revela de forma clara e sem meandros as particularidades das práticas de pilhagem, expressão que vem ganhando mais espaço no recente cenário da globalização econômica através da usurpação de vulneráveis em proveito dos mais poderosos. Os autores evidenciam, a partir de um viés contra-hegemônico, o Estado de Direito como instrumento ocidental de implementação e manutenção desse processo causador de disparidades nas relações entre atores internacionais, entre os quais, na maioria das vezes, estampa esse sistema como principal assegurador das garantias individuais.