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The Iranian nuclear program has been a source of apprehension and concern for some time. There are suspicions that Iran aims to use nuclear energy for military purposes, becoming an illegitimate nuclear power. Decades of sanctions and attempts of negotiation have not had satisfactory results. This paper aims to analyze the actual framework of the Iranian nuclear issue and argues that it reflects the controversies and difficulties of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was written in 2003-04 and aims to investigate the two cycles of US economic expansion in the late of the 20th Century and the 2001 financial crisis. For this purpose, it starts an examination of the mutations of the capital since the 1970s. In the end, it analyzes the international context and the changes in the US hegemony nature at the beginnings of the 21st Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which was an introduction to an anthology of seminal texts of the American Black feminism, draws a historiographical trajectory of the many phases of this movement, the so-called "waves", since the first one, in the 1850's, when women stuggled for the abolition of slavery in the US, through the second wave, in the 1970's, with its great activist and theoretical currents, until the present day's third wave, in which the heteronormativity still present in the precedent phases, essentially white women's feminism, is questioned. The author presents a detailed critical analysis of the terminology that, since the beginning, has been used to qualify or, rather, disqualify the Black women in the American society, though heavy stereotypes about the supposedly abnormal sexuality of not only Black men but especially Black women. Elsa Dorlin reviews the important contributions of the Combahee River Collective and of authors such as Laura Alexandra Harris, Beverly Guy-Shefall, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberly Springer, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Hazel Carby, Angela Davis e bell hooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to analyze the growth pattern of the United States and China in the post - 2008 crisis period and the interconnections between the two countries in terms of trade, financial flows and investments. The research is based on the theoretical contributions of recent authors in the field of International Political Economy: Leo Panitch and Alex Callinicos in their work related to the theme of the United States' position in the world. From this discussion the article identifies through empirical analysis the characteristics of the US economy and the Chinese economy, as well as the interdependence between them. Within this scope the article also discusses the impacts of these changes in inter-state relations between China and the USA and the consequences for the other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) on the United States intellectual property rights (IP) negotiations. The text covers, more broadly, the country's negotiating agenda on IP and the specificity of the TPP within the strategy of building wider and more effective global standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the Preferential Trade Agreements concluded between United States and some Latin America countries, highlighting the TRIPS-plus content of the intellectual property rights rules contained in these agreements. These rules expand and strengthen the mandatory minimum standard of TRIPS, producing important effects on vital public policies for socio-economic development of these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]