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RAHOLA, Pilar (2015). ¡BASTA!, RBA Libros, Buenos Aires, 224 páginas

Extracto de texto: "En septiembre de 2017 el Consejo Superior de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) aprobó la creación de la Licenciatura en Turismo. La misma constituye la primera experiencia de formación universitaria de carácter público en este campo disciplinar, en la Provincia de Santa Fe. Un territorio provincial que, así como la propia ciudad de Rosario, han ido posicionándose como destinos turísticos en procesos de política pública que se han desarrollado de la mano de transformaciones urbanísticas, productivas, tecnológicas, pero también en los imaginarios de la población local, respecto de la actividad turística y sus potencialidades. En estos lugares, hasta el momento sólo existían posibilidades de formación en el nivel terciario, de carácter privado, con una aproximación al fenómeno turístico casi exclusivamente desde su perspectiva comercial. En este marco, el diferencial de la formación propuesta en la UNR tiene que ver con incorporar de manera central la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales, a partir de ejes clave para el pensamiento social, como la cultura, los derechos, el desarrollo, el territorio, las políticas públicas, las relaciones internacionales, la mediación tecnológica, el ambiente, la perspectiva de género, la diversidad sexual. Estos aspectos no excluyen la consideración del turismo como una industria en expansión a nivel global, sino que complementan y enriquecen el abordaje de dicho fenómeno, en un sentido interdisciplinario. Asimismo, la carrera cuenta con una particularidad dentro de la UNR, ya que es la primera propuesta académica de grado que depende de dos Facultades -Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencias Económicas y Estadística-. En este sentido, el proyecto ha cimentado durante su planificación e implementación una notable impronta de cultura colaborativa, diálogo institucional e interdisciplina..."

The crisis in Venezuela has left aside the debate about the role of this country in international cooperation field. However, there are still aspects to analyze, especially the relations with its Andean political allies during and after the government of Hugo Chávez. This paper aims to highlight important elements of cooperation between Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, the political and economic context for cooperation and the subsequent decline of projects and agreements. It highlights how Venezuela used petrodollars, hyper-presidentialism and a soft balancing strategy as the main tools for foreign policy, which were elements get cooperation weaker. The data for the investigation were obtained through a critical review and analysis of documents and official declarations regarding the relations of three countries between 2006 and 2018, as well as the academic literature. The results of this research show the little progress the projects had (both bilateral and within the framework of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty) even before the resurgence of the economic crisis in Venezuela.

Since his arrival in late 2012, Xi Jinping released a global facet in Chinese foreign policy. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the most important strategic initiative in Xi Jinping's foreign policy. Due to its characteristics and scope, one of the main academic debates it has generated is to establish whether it is a Chinese initiative or strategy. The initiative is a proposal for international economic cooperation to execute projects related to trade and infrastructure along its economic corridors and maritime routes. With the focus on improving connectivity between Europe and Asia, it is open to all those countries on the globe that wish to integrate it, expanding the cooperation platform and consolidating the image of China as a global power. Our work tries to understand what the initiative consists of, what are the strategic interests pursued by Beijing and how the BRI is articulated with the “Chinese dream”. To do this, we will study the factors that gave rise to the initiative, its place in Xi Jinping's foreign policy, as well as its design, geographic scope, the implementation of the main projects and the financing mechanisms. We will start from the premise that China, through the Belt and Road Initiative, uses economic diplomacy to pursue its strategic interests, increasing trade, investment and finance along the economic corridors that comprise it.

South Korea stands in Asia Pacific as an emerging power with growing international influence. Partially moving away from the almost exclusive focus on its relationship with the United States as a filter of its external projection, Seoul began to redefine its global and regional foreign policy from a middle power perspective. This process had profound repercussions on the reconfiguration of Seoul's multilateral diplomacy and regional governance, bringing the State closer to regional integration processes, among which ASEAN stands out. In this paper we analyze the characteristics of South Korea's foreign policy towards ASEAN from 1989 to the present, with special emphasis on the strategic and economic dimensions. From this analysis we try to contribute to the study on the differentiation between middle and regional powers, through the distinction of Korean foreign policy at the international level and its role as regional actor.

Extracto de texto:"Con la aparición del COVID-19 a finales del año pasado en China se configuró un nuevo escenario de aprendizaje para la industria turística mundial. Considerando el contexto internacional cambiante, incierto y complejo, el presente artículo es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las dificultades que está atravesando la actividad turística, la cual, cabe remarcar, ha sido afectada por otras crisis en el sistema internacional en los últimos años, pero se ha mostrado siempre resiliente, logrando recuperarse rápidamente e incluso salir más fortalecida. Sin embargo, la escala e implicancias de la actual desaceleración son inéditas. Más aún, aunque la crisis terminara pronto, es poco probable que la actividad retome el curso tal cual venía desarrollándose..."

On April 24, 2013 Bolivia filed a lawsuit versus Chile in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) claiming the lack of compliance to negotiate a sovereign exit to the Pacific Ocean. Unlike other moments of the bilateral relationship, the object of the claim was not a request of revision or annulment of the 1904 Treaty, but rather the focus was on the presence of different facts that would prove the existence of this obligation between the parts. After going through the written and oral phases established by regulation, the International Court dismissed, on October 1 2018, the bolivian lawsuit, ending the legal approach to the conflict. This article identifies the principal topics across Bolivia and Chile´s positions during the trial and then reflects on the future of this complex and particular relation.

The incremental prominence of subnational actors is a topic that has gained attention from the different schools of International Relations since the 1960s. This article consists in analyzing the international actions of the province of Santa Fe in the search for external financing for its development between 2007-2017. In specific terms, it focuses on the identification of access and restrictions to the external financing of Santa Fe as a subnational actor and its new foreign financing strategy.

At the beginning of twenty-first century there was a renewed interest about building of regional projects and about their study. One of the projects that drew attention it can be mentioned the South American process that is framed in the region South America for the first time. The question that guides this work is, to what extent did the South American Project constitute a process of regional building? This regarding that it has been pretended construct an image of UNASUR as an ideological instrument, so justifying its dismantling and its subsequent creation of Foro para el Progreso de América del Sur (PROSUR). The documents reviewed for this investigation show that this regional Project constituted abroad process. Therefore, this did not reduce to a formal organization. This was featured by an interaction between ideal and material elements before formal organization. This can be studied from a critical perspective that also permits to approach to construction and destruction of a region from inside and outside. Last years it has taken place an internal destruction.

Extracto de texto:"Entre los diversos retos a los que debió enfrentarse la humanidad a lo largo del tiempo, las enfermedades han sido siempre un enemigo particularmente cruel y poderoso. No es exagerado decir que la historia fue moldeada por el impacto de las epidemias. Basta recordar cómo los pueblos originarios fueron diezmados por enfermedades importadas de Europa, donde la lucha contra numerosas plagas mortales acompañó la formación de los Estados modernos, forzándolos a recurrir a la higiene pública y las cuarentenas..."