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This book contains the proceedings of the International Conference titled “Current Challenges for the Rule in Europe”, held at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) on May 26th–28th, 2025, within the framework of...

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the nationa...

"Begins with a historical account of international conflict and the need for national defense. Then discusses the armed forces in Latin America. Concludes with a specific description of the role of the armed forces in La...

Infrastructures and buildings are built on a material that is heterogeneous in nature and whose properties are imposed by its origin: the ground. Soil or rock, the ground plays an important role in the cost and viability...

The collection of essays presented here examines the links forged through the ages between the realm of law and the expressions of the humanistic culture.We collected thirty-five essays by international scholars and orga...

The book «Integration of Refugees in Higher Education» is the result of a hard work over more than three years as part of a capacity building project under the Erasmus + program, funded by the European Commission and c...

How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge...

In this book we will address the landscape project as a disciplinary field located at the confluence of three thematic axes or sources of meaning: the formal axis, the environmental axis, and the socio-functional axis. T...

The effective enforcement of energy transition is one of the keys to the successful fight to climate change. The interplay between the sustainable UN Agenda 2030 goals is a new interesting ground for the development of i...

The present volume represents a compilation of international teacher education practice and research with a focus on Teacher Education for Contemporary Contexts. It draws upon the diverse educational perspectives, teachi...

Exile, a global and protean phenomenon, touched about half million Spanish Republican refugees at the end of the 1936-39 War in Spain. Contrary to Mexico’s significant sheltering, the USA mainly admitted a select group...

The Secret Sex of Money throws the spotlight on female forms of dependence such as Money, Sex, Power and Subordination. As has always been the case, economic independence is no guarantee of a woman's autonomy. This book ...

Research in the United States has shown that youth mentoring is a promising strategy for increasing self-esteem and school connectedness in at-risk youth. There has been little confirmation of those findings internationa...

The aim of this paper is to examine, through a discussion of the main theoretical approaches to globalisation, the various aspects of the present multidimensional crisis (economic, political, social, cultural and ecologi...

A key contribution to support the Latin American community in the protection of their heritage and a current contribution of the views and experiences of region in the international forum.

For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military kil...

Subjects / keywords: HUFBAUER, GARY CLYDE; INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS; 382.3 H889e

Subjects / keywords: RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND; IMF; 332.4566 I61t