Latin American responses to globalization in the 21st century / edited by Manuela Nilsson and Jan Gustafsson ; [introduction by Manuela Nilsson and Jan Gustafsson].

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nilsson, Manuela, 1962-
Gustafsson, Jan, 1955-
Language:English
Published: New York ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Physical Description:x, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Latin America's political and economic responses to the process of globalization / by Raul Bernal-Meza and Steen Fryba Christensen
  • Energy policy and twenty first century globalization: the responses of Brazil and Venezuela, and opportunities for renewable energy development in the Americas / by Erik Brand and Matthew Schewel
  • Remittances and social development: the Latin American experience / by Manuel Orozco
  • Globalization and the formation of the political left in Latin America / by Martin Nilsson
  • Global discourses, local meanings: indigenous and nationalistic responses to neoliberal globalization in Bolivia / by Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen
  • Between god and the state: globalization and human insecurity in Latin America / by Andrés Pérez-Baltodano
  • Unintended exports: the globalization of the Mara Salvatrucha / by Thomas Shannon Stiles
  • Globalization, transition, and insecurity in Mexico / by Patricia Olney
  • New patterns of violence in Latin America / by Dirk Kruijt
  • Latin American and European relations in an age of uncertainty and opportunity / by Guy Edwards and Enrique Mendizabal
  • China and Latin America: what sort of future? / by William Ratliff
  • South-South relations in Brazil's response to the challenges of globalization / by Steen Fryba Christensen
  • Conclusions.