Transforming Latin America by Craig Arceneaux

Transforming Latin America by Craig Arceneaux

This ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America\u2019s vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life. Looking broadly across the Western Hemisphere, with examples from Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and Central America, Arceneaux and Pion-Berlin identify general rules that explain how international and domestic politics interact in specific contexts. The detailed, accessible case studies cast new light on such central problems as neoliberal economic reform, democratization, human rights, regional security, environmental degradation, drug trafficking, and immigration. And they consider not only what actors, institutions, and ideas matter in particular political contexts, but when, where, and how they matter. By dividing issues into the domains of \u0022high\u0022 and \u0022low\u0022 politics, and differentiating between short-term problems and more permanent concerns, they create an innovative typology for analyzing a wide variety of political events and trends.

An important addition to the literature on Latin America in world politicsIt proposes an interesting and original framework for understanding the conditions that account for the shifting balance toward the domestic and the international in situations of political change.Ariel Armony, Colby College

Craig Arceneaux is assistant professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

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ISBN 13	9780822958826
ISBN 10	0822958821
Titel	Transforming Latin America
Autor	Craig Arceneaux
Serie	Pitt Latin American Series
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-07-15
Seitenanzahl	280
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.