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Nietzsche on his balcony : a novel
\"On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family, commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.\"-- Provided by publisher
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Regional Monetary Policy
With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ways through which money and monetary policy may affect regions. Carlos Rodriguez Fuentes, the rising star of Spanish economics, has produced a work of impressive clarity which analyzes the effects of regional monetary policy - with particular reference to European Monetary Union. Here, he examines the role that the banking system and the liquidity preference of economic agents play in the transmission of central banks monetary policy decisions to regions within a country or countries within a currency union. Rodriguez Fuentes utilizes a unique framework built upon the basic principle of the Post-Keynsian monetary theory which enables the identification of a new way for money and monetary policy to have a regional impact; the behavioural effect. This book, with it’s combination of literary and empirical approach will prove essential reading for all students of economics and politics, as well as readers who interested in the development of the European Union.
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Politics as Unusual In Mexico, an emerging multiparty system is changing the old top heavy way of governing
ON A RAINY Friday a couple of weeks ago, Felix Salgado Macedonio, the candidate of the left opposition National Democratic Front (FDN) from the 2nd Congressional District of Guerrero state, walked up to the presidium of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies with two coarse sacks over his shoulder. He then calmly emptied the contents of the sacks on the smooth green rug in front of the presidential dais - thousands of ballots cast in his favor and then burned or half-burned to deprive him of his victory and give it to the official candidate of the PRI, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The PRI offered reform from within when it could no longer sustain its accustomed levels of patronage. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the former PRI governor of Michoacan state and son of the last revolutionary leader, [Lazaro Cardenas] (1934-1940), took the party at its word. He launched a movement for democratic reform within the PRI and was expelled from the party for his trouble. It was a grievous mistake, from the PRI's point of view. PRI, the official party, will have to change simply because the voter now has real options to the left and the right. The PRI will have to change because the voters can now change, too, and go elsewhere. In these circumstances, the worst thing the PRI could do is revive its fraudulent practices. People will not stand for it. But if the PRI has to change, so do the opposition parties, notably the left FDN coalition. It cannot continue to cash in on discontent with the PRI and the government forever. Its challenge is to move quickly from being a merely electoral front of miniparties to becoming a true party of the Mexican left, capable of effectively challenging the PRI in the coming state elections this year, in the congressional elections three years hence and in the presidential election of 1994.
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VIEWPOINTSThe U.S. Can't Afford a Standoff with MexicoGood relations with Latin America start at the Rio Grande. The U.S. must stop hurlling insults and learn to respect the cultural diversity of its neighbors
This is our challenge, and it begins right here, today, in this frontier that we share between California and Mexico, between the United States and Latin America. We must be capable, here and now, of proving that we can live together, acknowledging our differences and dealing with them in constructive ways - not through insult and scorn but, rather, through an understanding that our interdependence is a fruit of our independence and that no fruitful cooperation can exist when the weaker nation is consigned to inferior, client or satellite status. The United States refers to Latin America as its own backyard. But for us, Latin America is not a backyard. It is our front lawn, our porch, our living room, our home. Finally, only we know how to order our house so that we can live next to you in mutual respect. Good relations between the United States and Latin America start with good relations between Mexico and the United States. Mexico and Latin America offer you the opportunity to be a democracy active as a democracy in this hemisphere, and this means, respecting the independence, dignity and economic, social and political diversity of all Latin American countries, large or small. A brilliant day or a gloomy night awaits relations between the two, the two protagonists of the history of this hemisphere: the United States and Latin America.
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POINT OF VIEW Policy By Marx (Groucho)
If (George) Bush were to proclaim the Sinatra Doctrine in Central America, we would quickly see a rush to the negotiating table in El Salvador and a normalization of political relations in Nicaragua.
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IN QUOTES Will Gorbachev Gamble On Central America?
If Bush were to proclaim the Sinatra Doctrine in Central America, we would quickly see a rush to the negotiating table in El Salvador and a normalization of political relations in Nicaragua.
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Archaeology in the River Duero Valley
From Prehistory to the Middle Ages, from the Spanish mainland to the Portuguese Atlantic Coast, the Duero (or Douro as it is known in English because of its Portuguese translation) has served as a river of great historical importance. It is a river flowing from the past into the future with the legacy of the Homo Antecessor and the most ancient remains of European Prehistory, showcasing the first samples of inland farming during the Iberian Neolithic period and many examples of Schematic Rock Art. Before the total obliteration of archaeological sites in the Duero valley due to active agricultural labours and the course of time itself, the Archaeological and Protohistoric Society of Zamora, Zamoraprotohistórica, leads a programme of researching activities to preserve this heritage and to keep it safe for future generations. In order to accomplish this, the association organises a cycle of conferences, lectures and meetings gathering local, national and international archaeologists and historians in a dynamic and vibrant exchange of knowledge. This volume is a compilation of the most remarkable interventions in those meetings, and each paper gathered here represents a unique reflection on the history of the river.
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