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BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE: FALSIFIABILITY AND LIMITS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM (BASE Y SUPERESTRUCTURA_FALSABILIDAD Y LÍMITES DEL MATERIALISMO HISTÓRICO)

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  Political Analysis Report This essay subjects one of the most influential categories in the social sciences to a critical examination: the Marxist thesis, formulated in the 1859 preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy , asserting that the economic base of a society determines, in the last instance, its political, legal, and ideological superstructure. Without adopting a militant stance or dismissing historical materialism out of hand, the author evaluates which elements of this scheme retain explanatory value, which have been refuted by subsequent historical research, and which alternative theoretical frameworks offer greater explanatory power today. English version of the book at this link (PDF 82 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Este ensayo somete a examen crítico una de las categorías más influyentes de las ciencias sociales: la tesis marxista, formulada en el prólogo de 1859 a la Contribución a la crítica de la economía p...

THE WAR OF ATTRITION: UKRAINE, RUSSIA, AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER (2022-2026) (LA GUERRA DE DESGASTE UCRANIA, RUSIA Y LA RECOMPOSICIÓN DEL ORDEN INTERNACIONAL)

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    Political Analysis Report When La re-imperialización de Rusia y la guerra global en Ucrania went to press in May 2024, the war was barely two years old and its major trends were only beginning to take shape. This new essay picks up that analytical framework and subjects it to an exercise rarely attempted in political science: testing it against the evidence accumulated through August 2026, chapter by chapter, hypothesis by hypothesis. The result is a book built around eighteen chapters and six parts that combines an assessment of that comparison with an analysis of the structural transformations the war has produced beyond its territorial outcome. English version of the book at this link (PDF 128 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Cuando en mayo de 2024 se cerraba La re-imperialización de Rusia y la guerra global en Ucrania , la guerra llevaba poco más de dos años en curso y sus grandes tendencias apenas empezaban a perfilarse. Este nuevo e...

Radical Right in Latin America Causes, Variants, and Scope of a Phenomenon of Its Own (Derecha radical en América Latina. Causas, variantes y alcance de un fenómeno propio)

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      Political Analysis Book In Amazon In just a few years, Latin America went from being a secondary setting in the study of the radical right to becoming one of its most active laboratories in the world. Javier Milei is dismantling the Argentine state with his fiscal "chainsaw"; Nayib Bukele governs El Salvador under a permanent state of exception with approval ratings close to 90%; José Antonio Kast wins Chile's presidency six years after the most massive social outburst in the country's democratic history; Bolsonarism survives in Brazil despite its founder's electoral defeat and the attempted coup of January 8; and in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia the conservative turn is intertwined with a polarization that paralyzes governability. This book, the third volume of a trilogy on the global radical right, offers the monographic analysis of Latin America that its two previous installments left pending. Its central thesis is that the Latin American radical right is ...

The cultural war as a contemporary political phenomenon (La guerra cultural como fenómeno político contemporáneo)

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      Political Analysis Report This academic essay analyzes the "culture war" as one of the fundamental axes of political polarization in contemporary democracies across Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Moving beyond oversimplified analyses, the work investigates the origins, dynamics, and causal mechanisms of these conflicts centered around moral values, collective identities, and worldviews, assessing the extent to which they represent a defensive conservative backlash or a mutation of class struggle following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. English version of the book at this link (PDF 96 pages) Presentation-Summary Visual Informe de análisis político Este ensayo académico analiza la «guerra cultural» como uno de los ejes fundamentales de la polarización política en las democracias contemporáneas de Europa, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Frente a análisis simplificadores, la obra investiga los orígenes, dinámicas y mecanismos causales de estos conflic...

A WEARY AND ERRATIC EMPIRE The cycle of US intervention and failure in the Arab-Muslim world (UN IMPERIO FATIGADO Y ERRÁTICO El ciclo de intervención y fracaso de Estados Unidos en el mundo árabe-musulmán)

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    Political Analysis Report A Weary and Erratic Empire is an essay of political and historical analysis that examines a recurring pattern in United States foreign policy: the cycle of military intervention, stalemate, precipitous withdrawal, and abandonment of allies that has repeated itself from Lebanon in 1982 to the conflict with Iran in 2025-2026, passing through Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. The author argues that this pattern does not respond to isolated errors on the part of specific administrations, nor to partisan differences, but to a structural dysfunction that runs through Democratic and Republican governments alike. English version of the book at this link (PDF 167 pages) Informe de análisis político Un imperio fatigado y errático es un ensayo de análisis político e histórico que examina un patrón recurrente en la política exterior estadounidense: el ciclo de intervención militar, estancamiento, retirada precipitada y abandono de aliados...

De la falsa regeneración a la corrupción bajo Pedro Sánchez (2018-2026)

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  Libro de análisis político El libro analiza el ciclo político abierto en España en 2018 con la moción de censura que llevó a Pedro Sánchez a la Moncloa tras la sentencia del caso Gürtel contra el PP, y lo cierra en junio de 2026 trazando un balance demoledor: el partido que se presentó como adalid de la "regeneración democrática" termina protagonizando, según el autor, el episodio de corrupción institucional más grave de la democracia española. El relato recorre cronológicamente la etapa Sánchez: la moción de censura de 2018, la repetición electoral de 2019, el primer gobierno de coalición con Unidas Podemos (2020-2023) y la investidura de 2023 lograda como segunda fuerza gracias a las concesiones a ERC, Junts, PNV y EH Bildu, entre ellas la ley de amnistía del procés. El autor sostiene que esa dependencia de socios con agendas dispares ha producido tres legislaturas sin Presupuestos aprobados, un uso masivo del decreto ley y una creciente parálisis institucional. El núcleo...

THE GEOPOLITICAL POWDER KEG OF THE ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD (EL POLVORÍN GEOPOLÍTICO DEL MUNDO ÁRABE-MUSULMÁN)

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    Political Analysis Book In Amazon There are regions that concentrate, within a small space, all the contradictions of the modern world. The Middle East is, without any doubt, the densest and most stubborn of them all. With this book, Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez delivers a work of broad scope and encyclopedic ambition: an implacable X-ray of the five decades of upheavals that have turned the Arab-Muslim world into the great laboratory in which the most urgent questions of our time are being settled. Can democracy be implanted at the point of a bayonet? Is political Islamism compatible with pluralism? What happens when states created on the paper of a colonial agreement begin to disintegrate? The answers offered by Middle East are brutal, complex and, above all, indispensable. From the triple betrayal of Sykes-Picot, McMahon and Balfour —the incompatible promises that three empires made over the same territories— to the 2026 war between the United States, Israel and Iran that s...

The PKK and Democratic Confederalism. An unprecedented sociopolitical experiment in the midst of war (El PKK y el confederalismo democrático Un experimento sociopolítico insólito en medio de la guerra)

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    Political Analysis Report There are reports that aspire to document and reports that aspire to understand. This is one of the latter. The PKK and Democratic Confederalism — a work by the political scientist and essayist Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez, also the author of The Impossible Paths of the Left and Mapping Political Thought — is an in-depth analysis of one of the most original, least known, and most misunderstood political experiments of recent decades: the transformation of a Kurdish Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement into the world’s foremost proponent of so-called democratic confederalism, and its practical application in the part of northern Syria known as Rojava. English version of the book at this link (PDF 108 pages) Informe de análisis político Hay informes que aspiran a documentar y hay informes que aspiran a comprender. Este es de los segundos. El PKK y el confederalismo democrático —obra del politólogo y ensayista Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez, autor también de ...

Mapping Political Thought The Great Western Traditions and Their Contemporary Challenges (Cartografía del pensamiento político Las grandes tradiciones occidentales y sus desafíos contemporáneos)

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  Political Analysis Book In Amazon What is the relationship between the individual and society? What makes a political order legitimate? Is freedom compatible with equality? These questions are not new, but they acquire renewed urgency at a moment when the postwar liberal consensus shows deep cracks, collective identities assert their place against individualism, and structural inequalities put the foundations of democratic coexistence to the test. Mapping Western Political Thought is an exercise in comparative analysis that traverses the great traditions of contemporary political philosophy with the purpose of illuminating the deep assumptions underlying each one: their conception of the subject and of the community, their vision of human nature, and their response to the question of the origin and legitimacy of the political. The itinerary begins with the two great traditions that have dominated modern debate. Liberalism is examined in all its internal plurality, from class...

DEMOCRATIC EROSION IN SPAIN DURING THE GOVERNMENTS OF PEDRO SÁNCHEZ (2018-2026) (LA EROSIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA EN ESPAÑA DURANTE LOS GOBIERNOS DE PEDRO SÁNCHEZ )

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  Political Analysis Report This report goes beyond a diagnosis of the Spanish case. Its most original contribution is one that confronts a persistent blind spot in the academic literature on democratic erosion: the tendency to associate the phenomenon exclusively with radical populisms of the right and left. Spain demonstrates that erosion can also emerge from the centre of the political system, from a party belonging to the European social-democratic tradition, a member of the Party of European Socialists, governing within the framework of the European Union and NATO. The cases of Romania, Albania, and Malta — analysed in comparative perspective — confirm that there exists a recognisable pattern of institutional deterioration within the European socialist family that has until now not received the academic scrutiny it deserves. English version of the book at this link (PDF 124 pages) Informe  de análisis político Este informe va más allá del diagnóstico del caso español. Su ...

The Fracture of the World in the Twenty-First Century Empires, Hegemony, the Crisis of the Liberal International Order, and the End of the Rules (La fractura del mundo en el siglo XXI. Imperios, hegemonía, crisis del orden internacional liberal y fin de las reglas)

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  Political Analysis Book The work argues that the Liberal International Order (LIO), constructed after 1945 and expanded following the Cold War, faces its greatest existential crisis. The author's fundamental thesis is that this crisis is unique because it is being produced through a "dismantlement from within". While external revisionist powers (China and Russia) challenge the order, it is the very power that architected and guaranteed it, the United States—especially under the Trump phenomenon—that is voluntarily renouncing its hegemonic role and the multilateral rules, accelerating a transition towards a world of anarchy or neo-imperial spheres of influence. Access the full book on Amazon   (571 pages)    Ebook (0,89$) Paper (13,18$)  Libro  de análisis político La obra en su primera parte hace una revisión histórica de los ordenes internacionales desde la antigüedad hasta la segunda guerra mundial. En la segunda parte se centra en la creación y descomp...

Vox: Anatomía del ascenso de la extrema derecha en España (Vox: Anatomy of the rise of the far right in Spain)

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   Libro  de análisis político Este libro   ofrece el análisis más completo y riguroso hasta la fecha sobre uno de los fenómenos políticos más disruptivos de la España contemporánea. Durante décadas, España fue una excepción en Europa: la única gran democracia occidental sin un partido de extrema derecha con representación parlamentaria significativa. Ese excepcionalismo terminó abruptamente en diciembre de 2018, cuando Vox irrumpió en el Parlamento andaluz, iniciando un ascenso meteórico que transformaría radicalmente el panorama político español. Political Analysis Book This book offers the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis to date of one of the most disruptive political phenomena in contemporary Spain. For decades, Spain was the European outlier: the only major Western democracy without a far-right party holding significant parliamentary representation. That exceptionalism came to an abrupt end in December 2018, when Vox burst onto the scene in the Andalus...

Trump and Venezuela: a blow to Chavismo and the multilateral international order (Trump y Venezuela: golpe al chavismo y al orden internacional multilateral)

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    Informe de análisis político Esta obra representa un análisis comprehensivo y anticipatorio de uno de los acontecimientos más significativos hasta el momento del siglo XXI: la intervención militar estadounidense en Venezuela del 3 de enero de 2026 y la captura del presidente Nicolás Maduro. Su importancia radica en que trasciende el análisis coyuntural para examinar las implicaciones estructurales sobre el orden internacional, las relaciones hemisféricas y el futuro de los proyectos de izquierda globalmente. El autor proporciona un marco analítico multidimensional que combina geopolítica, economía política, historia comparada y teoría de relaciones internacionales. Descarga del ensayo completo en español (PDF 208 páginas) Political Analysis Report This work represents a comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of one of the most significant events of the 21st century so far: the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, and the capture of President Nic...

Resumen Las vías imposibles de la izquierda. Análisis del fracaso histórico de sus proyectos

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Informe de análisis político La obra "Las vías imposibles de la izquierda: Análisis del fracaso histórico de sus proyectos", constituye un estudio crítico e integral de las trayectorias ideológicas y prácticas de las distintas corrientes de izquierda durante los últimos dos siglos, con la principal tesis de que sus proyectos históricos de superación del capitalismo han sido utópicos e irrealizables. El libro tiene como propósito central explorar la razón de un inmenso y persistente fracaso histórico que va más allá del colapso del comunismo. Para ello, el autor traza un exhaustivo recorrido que diferencia claramente varias etapas. Presentación en video del informe y de sus principales tesis Acceso al resumen completo (PDF) Las vías imposibles de la izquierda. Análisis del fracaso histórico de sus proyectos English version of the report at this link