Latin American Responses to Globalization in the 21st Century

M. Nilsson, J. Gustafsson, M. Nilsson, J. Gustafsson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780230347748
• eBook ISBN: 9781137003126
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from Latin America, the US and Europe and taking into consideration the recent global financial crisis, the book offers a multifaceted insight into the expectations as well as the possible threats related to Latin America's incorporation into the sphere of global interconnectedness.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Latin America's Political and Economic Responses to the Process of Globalization
• 2 Energy Policy and Twenty-First Century Globalization: The Responses of Brazil and Venezuela, and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Development in the Americas
• 3 Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience
• 4 Globalization and the Formation of the Political Left in Latin America
• 5 Global Discourses, Local Meanings: Indigenous and Nationalistic Responses to Neoliberal Globalization in Bolivia
• 6 Between God and the State: Globalization and Human Insecurity in Latin America
• 7 Unintended Exports: The Globalization of the Mara Salvatrucha
• 8 Globalization, Transition, and Insecurity in Mexico
• 9 New Patterns of Violence in Latin America
• 10 Latin American and European Relations in an Age of Uncertainty and Opportunity
• 11 China and Latin America: What Sort of Future?
• 12 South-South Relations in Brazil's Response to the Challenges of Globalization
• Conclusions: Latin America and Globalization—Challenges, Responses, and Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
• Index