Latin American Responses to Globalization in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Manuela Nilsson, Jan Gustafsson

   Pages 1-15

3. Latin America’s Political and Economic Responses to the Process of Globalization

   • Raúl Bernal-Meza, Steen Fryba Christensen

   Pages 16-35

4. Energy Policy and Twenty-First Century Globalization: The Responses of Brazil and Venezuela, and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Development in the Americas

   • Erik Brand, Matthew Schewel

   Pages 36-57

5. Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience

   • Manuel Orozco

   Pages 58-75

6. Globalization and the Formation of the Political Left in Latin America

   • Martin Nilsson

   Pages 76-95

7. Global Discourses, Local Meanings: Indigenous and Nationalistic Responses to Neoliberal Globalization in Bolivia

   • Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen

   Pages 96-114

8. Between God and the State: Globalization and Human Insecurity in Latin America

   • Andrés Pérez-Baltodano

   Pages 115-133

9. Unintended Exports: The Globalization of the Mara Salvatrucha

   • Thomas Shannon Stiles

   Pages 134-148

10. Globalization, Transition, and Insecurity in Mexico

    • Patricia Olney

    Pages 149-170

11. New Patterns of Violence in Latin America

    • Dirk Kruijt

    Pages 171-187

12. Latin American and European Relations in an Age of Uncertainty and Opportunity

    • Guy Edwards, Enrique Mendizabal

    Pages 188-206

13. China and Latin America: What Sort of Future?

    • William Ratliff

    Pages 207-230

14. South-South Relations in Brazil’s Response to the Challenges of Globalization

    • Steen Fryba Christensen

    Pages 231-252

15. Conclusions: Latin America and Globalization—Challenges, Responses, and Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century

    • Jan Gustafsson, Manuela Nilsson

    Pages 253-262

16. Back Matter

    Pages 263-267

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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.

• Europe
• globalization
• Nation
• transition
• Venezuela
• violence
• latin american politics

• Linnaeus University, Sweden

  Manuela Nilsson

• Centre for the Study of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

  Jan Gustafsson

ANDRÉS PÉREZ BALTODANO Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada RAUL BERNAL-MEZA Professor of International Relations at National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina ERIK BRAND publishes the daily Latin America Advisor at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, USA STEEN FRYBA CHRISTENSEN Associate Professor at Ålborg University, Denmark GUY EDWARDS Research Fellow in the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA ANNE MARIE EJDESGAARD JEPPESEN Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Latin American Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark DIRK KRUIJT Honorary Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands ENRIQUE MENDIZABAL Research Fellow and Program Leader of the Research and Policy in Development and Chair of the Latin America and the Caribbean Group at the Overseas Development Institute, UK PATRICIA OLNEY Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University, USA MANUELOROZCO Senior Associate and Director of Remittances and Development at the Inter?American Dialogue, Washington DC, USA WILLIAM RATLIFF Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, USA MATTHEW SCHEWELJournalist with the Latin America Advisor newsletters at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC, USA THOMAS SHANNON STILES Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University Scott Air Force Base, USA.

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