Within the valuation of Science and Technology (S+T) social impact, three dimensions are specially relevant for analysis, in the modern democratic societies: Public perception, citizen participation, and S+T culture. Innovation is an economic and political subject, where the State and private...

The current financial crisis, hitting the very nucleus of capitalist metropolis and placing its roots and causes at the spheres (financial and commercial ones) that have been privileged by neo-liberals, is another sample of the scarce or nonexistent viability of neo-liberal projects, having in...

Under the scholar educative space, the strands of discourse are an approach from the thoughts of authors such as Pierre Bourdieu on the subject of a socio-setting training of citizens in the relational-interactive context of human at complexity global level. It is also based on specific...

The norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has received increasing international attention in the last few years. In summary R2P refers to a concept that arose in the late 1990s in Canada which emphasizes the responsibility that governments and the international community have to protect...

Inequality is the keyword to understand why Latin-America Left, restructured as democratic and dialogging, emerged after the sinking of communist bastions and their mutation, as the new Chinese "Market-based socialism". Latin-America history shows a strong and fighting Left, featuring the heroic...

The analysis of inflationary pressures in Bolivarian Venezuela, in their origins and causes (historical and contemporary ones) has to be put into relation to the economic and monetary policy options adopted by the current Venezuelan government, in the framework of the challenges and choices a...

What would happen if every individual knew what to do, and did, without prompting or expecting a reward? Is that not what the authors of Republic and Utopia had in mind? Is that not the primary justification of theocracies? The immediate objection to that postulate is that human nature is not...

Since there is no definition of "terrorism" upon which all the world nations agree, this article proposes to approach the phenomenon on the basis of normative concepts widely recognized by social scientists. We think the issue would be more manageable if we use terms like "deviance" and...

This article examines the political causes of the crisis in the countries bad-called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) that lie in the enormous inequalities of economic and political power that exist in those countries. The situation in Ireland is analyzed with particular interest.

Globalization and monopolies lead towards stagnation. Paul Boccara emphasized this since the early 1970s. Some other great political economists of the instability of the international order, like Rosa Luxemburg and Otto Bauer, foresaw the dark clouds of major inner-capitalist wars on the...