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...Walt Vanderbush Abstract The conventional wisdom among analysts and scholars is that at least since September 11, 2001, the United States has tended to neglect its relations with Latin America. As a result of that inattention, other countries from outside the region have been able to make inroads...

...Paul Kellogg Abstract At the turn of the century, it seemed inevitable that regional integration in Latin America would occur under the rubric of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and US hegemony. But 2005—the year the FTAA was to have been launched—has come and gone, and the whole FTAA...

...Deborah L. Little New Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35,~o. 3,522-537 Book Reviews Merike Blofield, Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012, 200 pp. In 2011 the International Labor Organization...

...James Petras James Petras Global Transformations and the Future of Socialism ill Latin America Introduction Five world-historic facts condition the discussion of socialism and democ- racy in Latin America today: (I) The collapse of the capitalist free market growth model in Latin America...

...Jennifer Leigh Disney; Virginia S. Williams Abstract This article explores the shift to the left in Latin America within the context of understanding power relations among, within, and between social movements and the state. We examine the emergence and development of social movement resistance...

... Multiculturalism in the Inland Empire, Southern California Alfonso Gonzales Toribio Department of Ethnic Studies, and Ronald H Chilcote Chair in Latino and Latin American Studies, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA ABSTRACT This article interrogates the contradictions of neoliberal...

... are Enrique Baylora, "'Reactionary Despotism in Central America," Journal (?l Latin Anlerican Studies 15 (1983): 295-319; James Dunkerley, PO~1.'er in the IstJUllUS: a Political History (d'Modern Central Afllerica (London: Verso, 1988); Nora Hamilton, Jeffrey Frieden, Linda Fuller and Manuel Pastor, eds...

... human rights theory, the one that defines rights outside of the struggle for them. This article puts forward a methodology for the empirical study of human rights from the inside: do people enjoy their human rights? Using the Latin American Public Opinion Project democracy survey database, the authors...

... coverage of this key Latin American leader. New Political Science, Volume 31, Number 1, March 2009 Devil or Delllocrat? Hugo Chavez and the US Prestige Press Jules Boykoff1 Pacific University, USA Abstract Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as an outspoken challenger to US geopolitical...

... the national and transnational dimensions of this struggle and its relationship to larger processes of democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ne'lv Political Science, 2013 VoI. 35, No.2, 161-181, http: II dx.doLorgI 10.1080I 07393148.2013.790697 !~l Routledge ~ Taylor & Francis Group Michel...

...Isabelle V. Barker Abstract Pentecostalism is one of the world’s fastest growing religions, expanding most quickly in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia. To make sense of this expansion in so many developing regions, I suggest that Pentecostalism fosters norms and behaviors...

...Anthony Peter Spanakos Abstract At points of crisis of political representations and economic insecurity, populists are more likely to emerge. That was true of earlier forms of populism in Latin America and it seems to be so now. There are some important differences though and these are shown...

... the primary fault line in global capitalism revolves around transnationally organized classes, I conduct an interpretive analysis of the world views of capitalist elites in Latin America. My findings demonstrate the complex, intersecting nature of different axes of identity, and contradict this literature...

... J. Patrice McSherry THE ROOTS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD LATIN AMERICA G. Pope Atkins, Latin Anlerica in the International Political Systenl, second edition. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. 421.) Lars Schoultz: National Security and United States Policy tO~l'ard Latin Anlerica. (New Jersey...

... for a New Political Science http dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2012.729743 From McCarthyism to the Tea Party 565 populism, and this article proceeds to compare these characteristics with more general definitions of populism constructed in reference to Latin American cases and broader comparative-historical...

... century, Venezuela seemingly moved in a direction opposite to that followed by most Latin American countries. Between the 1960s and 1980s, most countries in the region experienced some kind of military dictatorship. In contrast, Venezuela (together with Costa Rica) remained the region's most stable...

..., many Latin American (and other Third World) states find themselves weakened by 66 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE a decade of austerity and structural adjustment. Austerity co-existed with and, in many areas, accelerated the growth of social needs. Social consensus on how much austerity is needed is lacking...

... issues affecting Latin American cities, others examine conflict and peacebuilding in the water sector, others examine different mechanisms for integrated water resources management. Yet, Sarah T. Romano's Transforming Rural Water Governance is one of the most unique contributions to the literature...

... of the Reagan approach to a BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY ON CENTRAL AMERICA 167 subtler approach, relying more heavily on covert operations-from Rambo to James Bond, so to speak. As predicted by Business Latin Anlerica,3 Bush was "holding the line," while ""lowering the stakes." The change of style was also...

... Science and Politics 42:4 (2009), pp. 633-38. 14See for example Colin Crouch, Post-democracy (Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2004); Peter Mair, "Ruling the Void? The Hollowing of Western Democracy," New Left Review 42 (2006), pp. 25-51. 15William I. Robinson, "Latin America and Global Capitalism," Race...