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1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in International Political Economy |
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Routledge advances in international political economy.
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Cover; The Political Economy of Space in the Americas; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction; A relational research methodology: everyday life, historical structures and scaling. Putting the pieces of the puzzle together; Structure of the book; Part I Weaving the Americas together: the four "stages" of a new evolutionary tale; 1 The 1980s: development as "free markets," the demolition of the old and the rise of the new; Ideas: Santa Fe I, "The Reagan Doctrine." |
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The new mechanisms of hegemony: a global managerial role for the international financial institutionsFirst-generation reforms; The Southern Cone: transition from authoritarianism to disciplinary neo-liberalism and the strengthening of women's movements; Disciplinary neo-liberalism, the competition state and structural adjustment programs; Central America: civil wars and the end of containment; The Caribbean: the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the heyday of tax havens; 2 The 1990s: development as "good governance" and the consolidation of hegemony |
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Ideas: Santa Fe II, trasformismo and the reversal of Gramscian thoughtSecond-generation reforms; Forms of new constitutionalism: building gateways for the continental FTAA; A new managerialism for new constitutionalism and the fragmentation of the women's movement; New civil wars, the quest for land and natural resources, and the rise of ethnic movements; Haute finance, capitalism and disaplacement in the Caribbean; 3 The new millennium: development as "poverty reduction" and the commodification of livelihood; Ideas: Santa Fe IV: "The Nine 'Ds' for George W. Bush"; Third-generation reforms |
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How the PRSPs actually work in the South: whose development? Whose growth?Intensifying the road towards the hemispheric FTAA; A double fissure between South and North: the 2005 hemispheric summits in Argentina; The "New Left" and South-South cooperation; The 2008 global financial meltdown; 4 Obama, "change" and the disembedding of security in Latin America: the tension between polyarchy and democracy; "A new partnership for the Americas," the Trinidad and Tobago short honeymoon and the question of "change." |
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Freedom for whom and for what purposes? De-constructing the transnationalization of polyarchy and the practice of trasformismoPart II Transnational mining corporations: searching for "El Dorado" at the turn of the millennium. The Bolivian case; 5 The Amayapampa and Capasirca gold-mines: double movement and state repression; From the old to the new mining: towards a transnational architecture of mining extraction; A progressive countermovement: miners' and pueblos originarios' demands; The repression: Vista Gold Corporation and the competition state |
| Summary |
This book presents a novel and cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving political economy of the Americas. Through a combination of qualitative research and theory, it considers the reconstruction of American-led hegemony in the Americas since the 1982 debt crisis and presents an examination of the new Pax Americana. Drawing on the Gramscian concept of hegemony as understood by Robert Cox and Henri Lefebvre, this book argues that since the 1982 debt crisis there has been a reconstruction of American-led hegemony under the signature of neo-liberalism and that it has taken place in t |
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The internationalization of the conflict and other developments |
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Print version record |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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Economic policy
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Politics and government
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Latin America -- Economic policy -- 20th century
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Latin America -- Economic policy -- 21st century
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Latin America -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074911
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Latin America
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135140311 |
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1135140316 |
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