What's Left in Latin America?

Regime Change in New Times
Neuauflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7797-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. Based on five years of field research and a critical engagement with social movements in the region, the book documents the short-term advances and strategic weaknesses of these left-leaning regimes, highlighting their failure to take advantage of favourable economic and political conditions. The authors profile four cases of recent and current political developments, and the prospects for socialism, in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petras, James

Veltmeyer, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Paradoxes of Latin American Development; Chapter 2 Latin America at the Crossroads: In the Vortex of Change; Chapter 3 Argentina: From Crisis and Rebellion to Growth and Pragmatic Neoliberalism; Chapter 4 Bolivia: Class Dynamics and Regime Politics; Chapter 5 Cuba: Continuing Revolution and New Contradictions; Chapter 6 Venezuela: Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism; Chapter 7 Back to the Future or Fastforward to the Past?;

Über Autor(innen)

James Petras is Emeritus Bartle Professor, Binghampton University, New York, USA. Henry Veltmeyer is Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.