Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
Crime, Violence and Security in the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Raymond Izarali
July 16, 2019
Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime – especially violent crime – in much of the region, the plague of the illicit drug trade, transnational organized crime, gangs, the current global proliferation of ...
Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina
1st Edition
By Andrea Castagnola
July 12, 2019
When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original field data from Argentina's National Supreme Court and all twenty-four Provincial Supreme Courts, Andrea Castagnola develops a novel theory to explain ...
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 ...
Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power: Mezcala’s Narratives of Neoliberal Governance
1st Edition
By Inés Durán Matute
January 10, 2019
Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexico) demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives, spaces, projects and identities of the most remote communities. Throughout the...
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 ...
Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Martin Alvarez, Eduardo Rey Tristán
June 20, 2018
Leading figures and rising stars in the field present the first contribution explaining the transnational nature of the revolutionary violence of the New Left. Focusing on the processes of dissemination of ideologies and mobilization of ideas and repertoires of action among the revolutionary ...
Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich
May 09, 2018
Latin American and Caribbean communities and civil societies are undergoing a rapid process of transformation. Instead of pervasive social atomization, political apathy, and hollowed-out democracies, which have become the norm in some parts of the world, this region is witnessing an emerging ...
Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Societies: Transforming the Role of the Military in Central America
1st Edition
By Orlando J. Pérez
March 14, 2017
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras are four Spanish speaking countries in Central America that possess uniformed military institutions. These four countries represent different approaches to reforms of civil-military relations, and embody varying degrees of success in both ...