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  • China-US Rivalry and Regional Reordering in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Li Xing, Javier Vadell ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    This book provides a comprehensive, conceptual and analytical framework for understanding the reordering process in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, driven and shaped by China–US rivalry. It demonstrates the differences between China–US, China–LAC and US–LAC relations and questions to what extent the LAC region can be considered a unified actor. Exploring broad perspectives such as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Understanding Brazil - United States Relations

    by Monica Hirst ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    The Brazil-United States relations represent a huge potential, but in recent decades have suffered from lack of communication and understanding between academics and policymakers from both countries. This book goes a long way towards demystifyingthis relationship. Covering from the final decades of the 19th century until the period of the Rousseff and Obama administrations,the work apprehends the ... Read more

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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Portugal in the 21st Century

    Edited by Nuno Monteiro, Patrícia Silva, Pedro C. Magalhães ...
    Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.It examines and elucidates Portugal’s recent trajectory, its current position, and the main challenges it faces through an examination of the principal dimensions of cultural, economic, political, and social development in the country. Bringing ... Read more

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  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Migration in South America

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Gioconda Herrera, Carmen Gómez ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines ... Read more

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  • Latin America's Radical Left

    Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of “good” and “bad” ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics

    Edited by Jorge M. Fernandes, Pedro C. Magalhães, António Costa Pinto ...
    The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, it looks at the past and present by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, it looks at political ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

    Populism and democracy in a globalised age

    by Barry Cannon ...
    The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold throughout the region and democracy is supposedly the ‘only game in town’. This book examines ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Costs of Inequality in Latin America

    Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World

    by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea ...
    From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of these income gaps. The Costs of Inequality draws on the experience of Latin America, one of the most unequal regions of the world, to ... Read more

    $28.19 USD