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  • Addressing the Venezuelan Migrant Crisis

    Lessons for the Caribbean

    by Georgina Chami, Dr Christopher M. Brown, Nalanda Roy ...
    This monograph delves into the general dynamics, causes, and impact of Venezuelan migration in the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Trinidad and Tobago, shedding light on the multifaceted nature of this phenomenon.Migration has been a defining feature of the Caribbean region's history, with its complex interplay of colonial legacies, economic opportunities, and socio-political factors ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Failed Democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Democratic Purgatory and the Viability of Consolidated Democratic Regimes

    by Christopher M. Brown ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the breakdown of failed democratic systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The scope of this investigation is a study of political systems of Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua. The implications of the present research on democratic purgatory have real-world applications not only for the above countries but also for those political systems that are currently transitioning ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • Neo-Passing

    Performing Identity after Jim Crow

    by Michele Elam, Derek Adams, Christopher M Brown, Martha J Cutter, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Alisha Gaines, Jennifer Glaser, Allyson Hobbs, Brandon J. Manning, Loran Marsan, Lara Narcisi, Eden Osucha, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
    Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism

    by Tamara Kay ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for cross-border labor cooperation. But far from polarizing workers, NAFTA unexpectedly helped stimulate labor transnationalism among key North American unions and erode union policies and discourses ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Resisting Backsliding

    Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy

    by Laura Gamboa ...
    In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in the Americas

    Toward a Pacific–Atlantic Divide?

    Edited by Jose Briceno-Ruiz, Isidro Morales ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced transformations over the last few years. After more than a decade of a hegemonic model based solely on free-market principles, the regional and global transformation that occurred in the first decade of the new millennium modified the way of understanding economic development and the insertion of regional blocs in global affairs. Old ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Politics Latin America

    by Gavin O'Toole ...
    Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to guarantee democracy and the forces that threaten to compromise it.Now in its third edition and fully revised to reflect recent developments in the region, Politics Latin America provides students and teachers ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Industrial Relations

    Labor Unions in Spain

    by Kerstin Hamann ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from the Franco dictatorship until the present. It builds on industrial relations, comparative politics, ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Brazil on the Global Stage

    Power, Ideas, and the Liberal International Order

    Edited by Oliver Stuenkel, Matthew M. Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil demonstrates that middle powers, even those of a deeply democratic bent, may differ in their views ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The United States and Central America

    Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility

    by Mark B. Rosenberg, Luis G. Solis ...
    Series series Contemporary Inter-American Relations
    This book is a concise overview of the recent history of U.S.-Central American relations. Part of the Contemporary Inter-American Relations series edited by Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, it focuses on the relations between the U.S. and this region since the end of the Cold War.The volume considers economic relations between the two regions, presenting pertinent information on the ... Read more

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  • Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle

    Another Region is Possible

    by Ximena de la Barra, Richard A. Dello Buono ...
    Series series Another World is Necessary: Human Rights, Environmental Rights, and Popular Democracy
    Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle studies the crippling problems that plague civilian democracies in the region. Ximena de la Barra and Richard Dello Buono draw on their extensive first-hand knowledge of Latin America to provide a rich analysis of why the needs of the region are too often put second to powerful foreign interests. In particular, they look at the shortcomings of the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD