Latin America and the Caribbean in the global context : why care about the Americas?
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Latin America and the Caribbean in the global context : why care about the Americas?
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 241-260
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Current perspectives on Latin America's role in the world tend to focus on one question: Why is Latin America always falling behind? Analysts and scholars offer answers grounded in history, economic underdevelopment, or democratic consolidation. Bagley and Horwitz, however, shift the central question to ask why and to what extent does Latin America matter in world politics, both now and in the future.
This text takes a holistic approach to analyze Latin America's role in the international system. It invokes a combination of global, regional, and sub-regional levels to assess Latin America's insertion into a globalized world, in historical, contemporary, and forward-looking perspectives. Conventional international relations theory and paradigms, introduced at the beginning, offer a useful lens through which to view four key themes: political economy, security, transnational issues and threats, and democratic consolidation. The full picture presented by this book breaks down the evolving power relationships in the hemisphere and the ways in which conflict and cooperation play out through international organizations and relations.
Table of Contents
Part I: Why Latin America and the Caribbean Matter? Chapter 1: Why Care about what Happens in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC?) Chapter 2: The Insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in World History: Chapter 3: A Theoretical Framework to Understand World Affairs: Part II: Latin America and the Caribbean: Power and Political Economy: Chapter 4: Economic Power: Commodity Booms and Busts: Chapter 5: Latin America and the Caribbean: Political Economy in the Twenty First Century: Part III: Security and Democracy: Chapter 6: Power: Political Institutions and Democracy: Chapter 7: Electoral Democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Chapter 8: Challenges to Democracy: Drug trafficking, Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks in LAC Part IV: Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Stage: Chapter 9: Latin America and the Caribbean and the Development of the Inter-American System: Chapter 10: We Should Care about Latin America and the Caribbean: Index
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