Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
Latin American Relations with the Middle East: Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Tawil Kuri, Élodie Brun
September 25, 2023
Latin American Relations with the Middle East surveys the dealings of ten Latin American and Caribbean states – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela – with the Middle East. This volume examins these states' external behavior at both an empirical...
Presidential Power in Latin America: Examining the Cases of Argentina and Chile
1st Edition
By Dan Berbecel
September 25, 2023
What explains variance in presidential power between countries? In Presidential Power in Latin America, Dan Berbecel provides a general, systematic theory for explaining presidential power in practice as opposed to presidential power in theory. Using expert survey data from Varieties of Democracy (...
Anti-Neoliberal Populisms in Comparative Perspective: A Latinamericanisation of Southern Europe?
1st Edition
By Enrico Padoan
May 30, 2022
In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class. Padoan begins by tracing...
Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna Samir Kassab
May 06, 2022
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available...
Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression
1st Edition
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By Bernardo Bianchi, Jorge Chaloub, Patricia Rangel, Frieder Otto Wolf
May 06, 2022
Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the ...
Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions
1st Edition
By Andrés García Trujillo
April 29, 2022
In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia Andrés García Trujillo investigates whether peace agreements geared toward terminating internal armed conflicts trigger rural distributive changes. Combining academic rigor with an insider’s perspective, García Trujillo shows that the peace agreement in ...
Challenging the U.S.-Led War on Drugs: Argentina in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Sebastián Antonino Cutrona
June 10, 2019
Challenging the U.S.-Led War on Drugs explores the cases that have resisted the U.S. pressure to adopt a militarized approach to fight against drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a sweeping narrative history from the recovery of democracy in 1983 to the present, Cutrona ...
Negotiating Trade Liberalization in Argentina and Chile: When Policy creates Politics
1st Edition
By Andrea C. Bianculli
August 14, 2018
How do international negotiations affect domestic politics? Starting in the 1990s, countries throughout Latin America embarked on many and simultaneous negotiations. On the shifting ground of widening and deepening trade agendas and diverse arenas, what factors determined trade politics? This book ...
Understanding Cuba as a Nation: From European Settlement to Global Revolutionary Mission
1st Edition
By Rafael E. Tarragó
August 14, 2018
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the world has kept ...
Business-State Relations in Brazil: Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby
1st Edition
By Mahrukh Doctor
July 27, 2018
In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor infrastructure concerns are new ...
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation: Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy
1st Edition
By Jeff Seward
July 27, 2018
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades. Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated ...
Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America: State, Society and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program
1st Edition
By Matthew B. Flynn
June 20, 2018
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and ...