El manual que el lector tiene en sus manos constituye una herramienta fundamental para estudiar la Ciencia Politica y las Relaciones Internacionales. Recoge el trabajo del equipo docente de la Escuela de Politica y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda. El texto hace parte de una iniciativa institucional que busca promover publicaciones que faciliten el aprendizaje de los alumnos de pregrado y posgrado en diversos temas de su formacion academica. 
La obra presenta capitulos con apartados que cubren la historia, debates teoricos y estudios de caso de las diferentes areas de las disciplinas en mencion.

Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.

Manual de ciencia política y relaciones internacionales

Nearly all democratizing states are also nationalizing, but this connection has not been adequately explained. A few scholars argue that nationality supplies democracy with a pre-political identity, while others maintain that nationality is often developed and manipulated by elites. I argue that national identity is a political identity, sustained by political institutions for political purposes, though this identity may contain some ethnic or abstract principles within it. The solidarity that national identity creates is most needed by democracies when they first emerge. Democratizing states need to build up institutions and create a culture of sacrifice, which they can do by creating a sense of solidarity among citizens. This solidarity is not only in the interests of the elites, but also benefits those in the dominant national group. The solidarity created by national identity is crucial to institution building, but it is also a source of inequality, since those not seen as members will often face discrimination or worse. The unfortunate side of nationalism has led some theorists to argue that liberal democracies need to move toward post-nationalism if they are to reach the promise of equality and individual rights for all. Doing so, however, means separating identity from the state. I doubt this is possible; and I argue that post-nationalism means forgetting about national memories. Yet to honor rightly the past victims of nationalism we must engage in acts of remembrance. We cannot both bear the legacy of the past and easily move toward post-nationalism. I work through these issues partly by way of Habermas who tries, unsuccessfully in my view, to reconcile post-nationalism with the retention of national memory.

Democracy, Solidarity and Post-Nationalism:

Imagining identity: visions of Malaysia and the interrelationship between state, society and the global

The history of economic systems is the history of the creation and redistribution of wealth for the use of human communities, and of the epistemological paradigms that have underpinned this struggle. In my thesis, I present one facet of this enduring clash through the analysis of two such paradigms, and explore their relation to the current phenomenon of globalization. I believe that the nature of the current explanations of globalization, which are generally one-dimensional, is unsatisfactory and that we need to respond to the challenges to the legitimacy, distribution of benefits and costs that are increasmgly brought against globalization. I use of three tools in my analysis: 1. A multifaceted approach to globalization; 2. A theoretical premise that allows for complex links between market activity, the social sphere and the individual. In this sense I use, at the highest level of abstraction, the dialectic between Polanyian and Hayekian perspectives to highlight the concerns regarding the interplay between states, markets and individuals; 3. An Austrian-Weberian inspired theory of institutions and organizations that, as a mid-range theory of action, organically links the two and leaves individuals room for meaningful action within the two. I argue that the challenges that the globalization is encountering can only be tackled by incorporating a strong participatory process inspired by a deontological vision of human beings. Only by allowing individuals meaningful and free choice can the current model of globalization develop into a legitimate, sustainable socio-economic regime.

Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.

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Manual de ciencia política y relaciones internacionales

Democracy, Solidarity and Post-Nationalism:

Imagining identity: visions of Malaysia and the interrelationship between state, society and the global

Globalization between the Hayekian and Polanyian perspectives: Spontaneous order or embeddedness?

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