Democracy Delayed

by Juan J. López

2003 · JHU Press

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts and international relations scholars expected communist Cuba to undergo transitions to democracy and to markets as had the Eastern European nations of the former Soviet bloc. But more than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Castro remains in power, with no sign that the Cuban government or economy is moving toward liberalization. In Democracy Delayed, political scientist Juan López offers a searching and detailed analysis of the factors behind Cuba's failure to liberalize. López begins by comparing the political systems of three Eastern European states—the former German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, and Romania—with that of Cuba, in order to identify the differences that have allowed Castro to maintain his hold over the government and the economy. López also shows the various conditions promoting change, including the development of civil society groups in Cuba, and discusses why some U.S. policies help the possibility of democratization in Cuba while others hinder it. While the Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant Church in East Germany fostered change, the Catholic Church in Cuba has not taken a defiant stance against authoritarianism but seems instead to be biding its time until Castro is out of the picture. In conclusion, López argues that a political transition in Cuba is possible even under the government of Fidel Castro. Some necessary conditions have been missing, but it is possible that U.S. policies could lay the groundwork for democratic charge.

Private Enforcement of Competition Law

by Luis A. Velasco San Pedro, Carmen Herrero Suárez, Joaquín Almunia, Alberto Arribas Hernández, Rosa Bayo Álvarez, Luis Berenguer Fuster, Cristina Cano Ortega, Marta Cantero Gamito, Michele Carpagnano, Esperanza Castellanos Ruiz, Phillip Collins, Julio Costas Comesaña, Jorge M. Coutinho de Abreu, Antonio Creus, Juan Delgado, Fernando Díez, Luisa M.a Esteban Ramos, Carmen Estevan de Quesada, Carlos Gómez Asensio, Mariana França Gouveia, Javier Guillén Caramés, M.a Isabel Huerta Viesca, Íñigo Igartúa Arregui, María Jeleztcheva Jeleztcheva, José Carlos Laguna de Paz, Robert H. Lande, Charlotte Leskinen, Loan Less, Vicente Mambrilla Rivera, Francisco Marcos Fernández, Jaume Martí Miravalls, Ricardo Manuel Mata y Martín, Lourdes V. Melero Bosch, Miguel Odriozola, Jesús Olavarría Iglesia, Martín Orgonik, Ingrid S. Ortiz Baquero, Benjamín Peñas Moyano, M.a Jesús Peñas Moyano, Eduardo Pérez Asenjo, Elena F. Pérez Carrillo, Patricia Pérez Fernández, Paola Piroddi, Achim Puetz, Jesús Quijano González, Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda, Amalia Rodríguez González, José Antonio Rodríguez Míguez, Juliana Rodríguez Rodrigo, Daniel Rodríguez Ruiz de Villa, Cristina Roy Pérez, Diana Paola Rubiano Meza, Elena Ruiz de Angulo Gómez, Miguel Ruiz Muñoz, Albert Sánchez Graells, Luis Ángel Sánchez Pachón, Jacques Steenberg, Julia Suderow, Claudia Trabuco, Elena Cristina Tudor, Carlos Andrés Uribe-Piedrahita, Jiri Valdhans, María Valmaña Ochaíta, Carmen Vaquero López, Víctor Villamil Ferreira, Richard Whish, Pedro Manuel Yanes Yanes

2011 · Lex Nova

The private enforcement of competition law through damages actions and/or injunctions before ordinary courts of justice is currently the preferred system in the United States. It is playing an increasingly important role in Europe by supplementing a still predominantly public system based on disciplinary rules enforced by public authorities that do not entail compensation for victims. Compensation can only be achieved through private enforcement, which is already viewed as an alternative to the public system. This work, whose origins lie in the International Conference on the private enforcement of Competition Law held at the University of Valladolid's School of Law offers a comprehensive, pluralist overview of the subject by providing transversal approaches, joint assessment and information on various national experiences alongside more specific contributions that study specific matters of substantive and procedural law, by covering practically all the relevant issues in this field. The work also addresses the main problems of the system vis-à-vis private international law and its connection and interaction with public enforcement. Also available in Spanish language, with the title: La aplicación privada del Derecho de la competencia.