Estudio del comportamiento legislativo en Colombia

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...

"La obra de Francisco Leal Buitrago recoge algunas de las principales contribuciones del sociólogo colombiano. El propósito de esta recopilación es celebrar la contribución de quien ha sido artífice fundamental del desarrollo de las ciencias sociales en Colombia y poner al alcance de las nuevas generaciones de estudiantes y académicos el conocimiento pionero producido por Leal. Los temas que ha tratado -la preocupación por el Estado y el régimen, la seguridad y las sucesivas crisis- son fieles reflejos de las épocas que ha vivido el país; no en vano sus publicaciones aún hoy forman ...

La vida de miles de bogotanos gravita alrededor del centro tradicional de la ciudad. Probablemente la de cientos de colombianos. Otros lugares de la ciudad, algunos con alguna tradición histórica, le han entablado una constante competencia espacial al centro tradicional en disputa de sus residentes y, en general, de las actividades humanas que allí se realizan. Además de esta competencia, el centro acoge a una diversidad de agentes interesados en vivir en él y de él, hasta configurarse en una zona de innegable valor de uso popular, de la mayor trascendencia socio-política para nuestra...

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.