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The Premise and the Promise

The Premise and the Promise

Número de Páginas: 308

The vision of a hemispheric system of free trade charts a bold new course for U.S--Latin American relations that promises to transform the economic and political landscape of the hemisphere well into the next century. In "The Premise and the Promise, "analysts from the United States, Latin America, and Canada explore the dynamics of the process under way in the Americas today, what features free trade ought to have, how the process of regional integration should proceed, and how the regional architecture should be related to the international trading system. Mexico's decision to seek a free trade agreement with the United States and Washington's announcement of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative turned the incipient integrationist revival of the mid-1980s in Latin America into a seemingly unstoppable force. If regionalism is to be a benign force, however, it must overcome the impulse toward closed, exclusionary arrangements and emulate the best features of the multilateral approach: a regional arrangement should be flexible enough to accommodate vast regional diversity, inclusive enough to allow all countries in the region to participate, and efficient enough not to impose ...

Nuestra historia violeta

Nuestra historia violeta

Autor: María Angélica Illanes

Número de Páginas: 163

Nuestra historia violeta va en busca de la historia por escribir de las mujeres del siglo XX chileno, no tanto desde sus figuras prominentes ni de sus hitos históricos movimientistas, sino principalmente a través de una narración historiadora que intenta una más íntima proximidad de habla y cuerpo con mujeres como nosotras mismas. Esta escritura se teje en torno a una hebra central que la inspira y la atraviesa, cual es la poesía y el canto de Violeta Parra, que narran algunos episodios de su vida, seleccionados en relación con los temas específicos de cada uno de los capítulos del libro.

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Autor: Rebecca Boehling , Uta Larkey

Número de Páginas: 351

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and dispersed over three continents. The family's unique eight-way correspondence across two generations brings into sharp focus the dilemma of Jews in Nazi Germany facing the painful decisions of when, if and to where they should emigrate. The authors capture the family members' fluctuating emotions of hope, optimism, resignation and despair as well as the day-to-day concerns, experiences and dynamics of family life despite increasing persecution and impending deportation. Headed by two sisters who were among the first female business owners in Essen, the family was far from conventional and their story contributes new dimensions to our understanding of Jewish life in Germany and in exile during these dark years.

Battling for Hearts and Minds

Battling for Hearts and Minds

Autor: Steve J. Stern

Número de Páginas: 582

The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Beyond the Barricades

Beyond the Barricades

Autor: Marie-claire Cordonier Segger

Número de Páginas: 372

Beyond the barricades surrounding recent economic meetings, a constructive agenda is being developed on trade and sustainability issues in the Americas. This book brings together a diversity of perspectives and expertise on environment and development issues from governments, civil society and businesses in the Western Hemisphere. The book reviews specific areas where trade, environment and social policies intersect in the Americas, proposing that more integrated laws and policies could strengthen hemispheric progress toward sustainable development. It identifies new means of implementing this agenda, including changes to proposed trade agreements such as the FTAA, and ways to strengthen environmental and social cooperation mechanisms in the region, laying out future directions for law and policy in the region. The volume incorporates a variety of perspectives with policy options and research results from across the Americas. Critical yet constructive, it will appeal to students and scholars interested in the Americas integration process, as well as to development professionals and NGOs on the ground.

Remembering Pinochet's Chile

Remembering Pinochet's Chile

Autor: Steve J. Stern

Número de Páginas: 286

By sharing individual Chileans' recollections of the Pinochet regime, historian Steve J. Stern provides an analytic framework for understanding memory struggles in history.

The Challenge Of Local Feminisms

The Challenge Of Local Feminisms

Autor: Amrita Basu

Número de Páginas: 474

A must read for feminist activists, scholars, and policymakers. As this book amply demonstrates, women s movements around the world have much to learn from each other. The Challenge of Local Feminisms is the best place to start ... an inspiration and a challenge for us all. —Bella AbzugCochair, Women's Environment and Development Organization

Historia contemporánea de América

Historia contemporánea de América

Autor: Joan Del Alcàzar

Número de Páginas: 484

Este volumen responde a un título tan amplio y sugerente como 'Historia contemporánea de América' con un análisis exhaustivo de la evolución histórica del continente americano, desde la época de las independencias nacionales hasta finales del siglo XX, en el que se incluyen tanto las características comunes como las específicas de los dos hemisferios continentales. Los autores, por razones metodológicas y con intenciones didácticas, han estructurado el volumen desde una doble perspectiva temática y narrativa, basada en la aproximación de todas aquellas cuestiones, problematizadas, que se han demostrado especialmente relevantes en diversos momentos, áreas y sociedades, superando con ello la opción más habitual y común de convertir la historia contemporánea de América en una colección concatenada de pequeñas historias nacionales de cada uno de los países.

The Politics of Motherhood

The Politics of Motherhood

Autor: Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney

Número de Páginas: 318

With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non-existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels. The increased legitimacy of women's demands for rights, both locally and globally, has led to some improvements in gender equity. Yet feminists in contemporary Chile continue to face strong opposition from neoconservatism in the Catholic Church ...

Culture and Security

Culture and Security

Autor: Keith R. Krause

Número de Páginas: 265

A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world.

Politics In Chile

Politics In Chile

Autor: Lois Oppenheim

Número de Páginas: 335

The third edition of Politics in Chile provides significantly updated coverage of Chilean politics and economic development from the return to civilian rule in 1990 to the 2006 election and early administration of Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president. Lois Hecht Oppenheim focuses on recent efforts to reconstruct democratic practices and institutions, including resolving such sensitive and lingering issues as human-rights violations under Pinochet and civil-military relations. Chapters on the contemporary politics and economics under the civilian Concertaci governments are largely rewritten for this edition. Rather than focusing on the "search for development", the third edition considers in greater depth the "exceptionalism" of the Chilean economic experiment through successive stages of stability, socialism, and neoliberalism.

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization

Twenty Years of Studying Democratization

Autor: Aurel Croissant , Jeffrey Haynes

Número de Páginas: 248

Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments. The journal’s first issue appeared in early 1994. Over time, the editorial position has been consistently to focus on ‘the third wave of democracy’ and its aftermath. The third wave is the most recent exemplar of a long-term, historical trend towards more democratically viable regimes and away from authoritarian systems and leaders. In short, the journal wants to promote a better understanding of democratization – defined as the way democratic norms, institutions and practices evolve and are disseminated both within and across national and cultural boundaries. Over the years, the many excellent articles that we have featured in the journal have shared our focus on democratization, viewed as a process. The journal has sought – and continues to seek – to build on the enduring scholarly and of course popular interest in democracy, how and why it emerges, develops and becomes consolidated. Our emphasis over the last...

Latin America in the New International System

Latin America in the New International System

Autor: Joseph S. Tulchin , Ralph H. Espach

Número de Páginas: 252

Tulchin and Espach (both are at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) have collected ten essays on the place, choices, dangers, and options of Latin America in the context of economic globalization. The contributors are political scientists, scholars on international affairs, and specialists in Latin America. Three essays feature Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico separately; the rest consider Latin America as a whole, particularly in terms of its foreign and economic policies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Latin America and the Asian Giants

Latin America and the Asian Giants

Autor: Riordan Roett , Guadalupe Paz

Número de Páginas: 338

How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics. In the years since China has adopted a "going global" strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to natural resources abroad, Sino–Latin American relations have both deepened and broadened at an unexpectedly rapid pace. The main driver behind this sea change in bilateral relations has been economic complementarity, with resource-rich countries in Latin America exporting primary goods to the Asian giants' growing market and China exporting manufactured goods back into the region. In recent years, Sino–Latin American relations have matured considerably, becoming far more nuanced and multifaceted than ever before. India is a relatively new player in the region, but has slowly strengthened its ties. As one of Asia's largest markets, it offers interesting parallels to the Chinese case. Will Indo–Latin American ties follow a similar path? The main areas of growth include trade and investment, mining, energy, information technology, motor vehicle production, and pharmaceuticals. To what extent these changing dynamics...

The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

Autor: B. Hettne

Número de Páginas: 352

This book is dedicated to the implications of the new regionalism for global security and development. The fourth in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on new regionalism.

Trade Policy and Gender Equality

Trade Policy and Gender Equality

Autor: Amrita Bahri , Dorotea López , Jan Remy

Número de Páginas: 431

Trade policies create both 'winners' and 'losers', as some actors stand to benefit and others are left behind. More often than not, it has been women who have borne the negative impacts of international trade policy and it is thus imperative that future trade policy is negotiated and implemented with an eye toward women's interests. This collection represents an innovative systematic evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses the role of WTO as a trade policy setter, current debates and possibilities for gender-inclusive trade agreements and emerging topics such as e-commerce and gender-responsive standards. With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the intersections between trade law and gender, and is vital to ensuring that both men and women 'win' from trade policy in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Cuba’s Military 1990–2005

Cuba’s Military 1990–2005

Autor: H. Klepak

Número de Páginas: 349

This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR - and therefore of Soviet economic, political and psychological support. It provides important historical and political contexts of the development and engagement of the military.

Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making

Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making

Autor: Ann Capling , Patrick Low

Número de Páginas: 359

Examines how non-state actors see their interests and seek to influence government policy in relation to PTAs and the WTO.

Exporting Services

Exporting Services

Autor: Arti Grover Goswami , Aaditya Mattoo , Sebastian Saez

Número de Páginas: 407

Through country case studies as well as econometric analysis, this book attempts to identify the factors that have helped developing countries succeed in exporting services. It examines strategies that have been successful as well as those that have not delivered expected results..

Marketing Democracy

Marketing Democracy

Autor: Julia Paley

Número de Páginas: 276

"This will be an important book, and a powerful exemplar for the growing numbers of anthropologists who seek to place such things as democracy, citizenship, and neoliberalism under an ethnographic lens."—James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambin Copperbelt "In joining activism and fine ethnography, Paley enables us to appreciate the profound complexity of the links between civil society and public institutions. Chakrabarty's assessment of "the undemocratic foundations of 'democracy'" becomes a fine analytic tool as it is refracted in the words of the women of Población La Bandera."—Charles Briggs, author of Learning How to Ask "Paley has produced an insightful and fascinating exploration of the shifting meanings of democracy for the Chilean state and for shantytown activists across the Pinochet dictatorship and through the contradictory democratic politics of the 1990s. The marketing of democracy is a highly relevant issue for societies and states throughout the world."—Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala "An important challenge to Polyanna conventional wisdoms ...

The Women's Movement In Latin America

The Women's Movement In Latin America

Autor: Jane Jaquette

Número de Páginas: 272

For those interested in democratic transition and consolidation, social movements, and gender politics, this volume is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing analysis available of how women's groups are helping to reshape Latin America. The contributors document and assess the remarkable wave of women's political participation in Latin America over the past two decades. The first five case studies, on Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru, examine the origins, evolution, and goals of women's organizations as they worked together to end authoritarian rule and elaborate how women's groups have adapted in the 1990s to the day-to-day realities of democratic politics. In the 1990s, the challenge has shifted from mobilizing opposition to the very different task of working with parties and government bureaucracies in order to maintain and implement their agendas. The chapters on Nicaragua and Mexico broaden our understanding of political transitions.Seven case studies vividly illustrate the variety of women's movements in the region, ranging from the communal-kitchens movements to human rights groups. Each author discusses the strategies and debates of the feminist...

Social Work Perspectives on Poverty

Social Work Perspectives on Poverty

Autor: Association Of Schools Of Social Work In India

Número de Páginas: 312

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The Political Economy of Peripheral Growth

The Political Economy of Peripheral Growth

Autor: José Miguel Ahumada

Número de Páginas: 260

This book provides a political economy perspective on Chile’s contemporary economic development, explaining the different stages of Chile’s neoliberal pattern of economic integration into the global economy from 1973 to 2015. Three key explanatory variables are considered: the evolution of business-state relations, US geopolitical interest in the region through the waves of trade agreements, and the political impact of the dynamics of inflows and outflows of financial capital. Although Chile is typically considered to be a successful case of a free market economy, this book presents an alternative narrative of Chile’s growth through using a Latin American Structuralist political economy perspective. While it recognises the positive results in terms of growth, it also emphasises the lack of dynamic sources for long-term development, which embeds the economy into short-term booms followed by periods of stagnation.

Promises of Empowerment

Promises of Empowerment

Autor: Jennifer L. Troutner , Christine Hünefeldt , Peter H. Smith

Número de Páginas: 308

How and to what degree are women worldwide gaining and using power? This book offers the first genuinely comparative assessment of this key question by exploring the conditions, actions, and accomplishments of women in Latin America and Asia. Encompassing 60 percent of the world's population and experiencing far-reaching transformations, these two regions offer a vital window into our understanding of the experiences of women globally. Revealing both basic similarities and fundamental differences, this volume offers thoughtful insights about the changing conditions of women, on the one hand, and, on the other, about patterns of social change throughout Asia and Latin America.

Desired States

Desired States

Autor: Lessie Jo Frazier

Número de Páginas: 291

Desiring the working class: a Spanish feminist, a bishop, an oligarchic state, and worker sexuality, circa 1913 -- Desiring the patriarchal state through military discipline in Cold War prison camps, 1947 and 1973 -- Sex and the new man in socialist revolution: ideologies and practices, circa 1973 -- Gendered erotics in the space of death: from military dictatorship to civilian market-state, circa 1999 -- Conclusion and epilogue: the desire to govern and the governing of desire.

Mining for the Nation

Mining for the Nation

Autor: Jody Pavilack

Número de Páginas: 418

"Examines the politics of coal miners in Chile during the 1930s and '40s, when they supported the Communist Party in a project of cross-class alliances aimed at defeating fascism, promoting national development, and deepening Chilean democracy"--Provided by publisher.

Reagan and Pinochet

Reagan and Pinochet

Autor: Morris Morley , Chris Mcgillion

Número de Páginas: 353

This study examines U.S. policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1980s. The authors provide fresh insights into bureaucratic conflicts that were a key feature of the policy-making process and reveal both the achievements and the limits of U.S. influence on Pinochet's regime.

No Turning Back

No Turning Back

Autor: Estelle Freedman

Número de Páginas: 466

Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement, as vital and dynamic in the developing world as it is in the West, feminism has helped women achieve authority in politics, sports, and business, and has mobilized public concern for once-taboo issues like rape, domestic violence, and breast cancer. And yet much work remains before women attain real equality. In this fascinating book, Freedman examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past two hundred years–and explores how women today are looking to feminism for new approaches to issues of work, family, sexuality, and creativity. Freedman begins with an incisive analysis of what feminism means and why it took root in western Europe and the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. The rationalist, humanistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, which ignited the American Revolution, also sparked feminist politics, inspiring...

Radical Women in Latin America

Radical Women in Latin America

Autor: Victoria González-rivera , Karen Kampwirth

Número de Páginas: 356

The rationale stated for studying radical women of Latin America is first to throw light on the development of dictatorship and authoritarianism, second to transcend the stereotype of inherently violent men and inherently peaceful women, and finally to demonstrate that there is no automatic sisterhood among women even of the same class and ethnicity. Brief chronologies of three countries each in Central and South America open the two sections. The contributors are historians and political scientists primarily from the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Intervention Without Intervening?

Intervention Without Intervening?

Autor: A. Cooper , T. Legler

Número de Páginas: 193

This book looks at the evolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) multilateralism for democracy and the lessons its experience holds for other multilateral contexts. It also tackles the theoretical challenge of bridging the traditional divide between international relations and comparative politics.

Western Hemisphere Economic Integration

Western Hemisphere Economic Integration

Autor: Gary Clyde Hufbauer , Jeffrey J. Schott

Número de Páginas: 308

"Thorough analysis of processes and consequences of proposals for extending NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere ; seeks to assess both economic and political consequences of several avenues that might be followed, including impact on the global trading system"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas.

Feminist Policymaking in Chile

Feminist Policymaking in Chile

Autor: Liesl Haas

Número de Páginas: 135

The election of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile in 2006 gave new impetus to the struggle in that country for legislation to improve women’s rights and highlighted a process that had already been under way for some time. In Feminist Policymaking in Chile, Liesl Haas investigates the efforts of Chilean feminists to win policy reforms on a broad range of gender equity issues—from labor and marriage laws, to educational opportunities, to health and reproductive rights. Between 1990 and 2008, sixty-three bills were put forward in the Chilean legislature as a result of pressure brought by the feminist movement and its allies. Haas examines all these bills, identifying the conditions under which feminist policymaking was most likely to succeed. In doing so, she develops a predictive theory of policy success that is broadly applicable to other Latin American countries.

Reckoning with Pinochet

Reckoning with Pinochet

Autor: Steve J. Stern

Número de Páginas: 585

Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile’s democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in 2003, of the coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende; and Pinochet’s death in 2006. He shows how transnational events and networks shaped Chile’s battles over memory, and how the Chilean case contributed to shifts in the world culture of human rights. Stern’s analysis integrates policymaking by elites, grassroots efforts by human rights victims and activists, and inside accounts of the truth commissions and courts where top-down and bottom-up initiatives met. Interpreting solemn presidential speeches, raucous street protests, interviews, journalism, humor, cinema, and other ...

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61

Autor: Lawrence Boudon

Número de Páginas: 846

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the...

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Autor: Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

Número de Páginas: 366

DIVThe first systematic account of Chilean women's labor from 1885 to 1930 showing how women's paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems linked to modernization./div

A History of Modern Latin America

A History of Modern Latin America

Autor: Teresa A. Meade

Número de Páginas: 436

Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent nation-states of Latin America and the Caribbean. Viewing Latin American history through the lens of social class, gender, race, and ethnicity, this accessible textbook explores the complex set of personalities, issues, and events that intersect to form the Latin American historical landscape. Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, the fully updated third edition examines specific events in different nations and periods to illustrate broader historical trends and interpretations. Concise chapters feature first-hand accounts of the life history of both prominent and ordinary people to contextualize topics such as African slavery in the Americas, the struggle for Haitian independence, the patriarchal rules governing marriage in Brazil, the construction of the Panama Canal, indigenous uprisings in the Mexican Revolution, the impact of immigration on Latin American life, the opening of diplomatic relations...

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