Latin America and the Caribbean in the Global Context by Horwitz, Betty,Bagley, Bruce Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Part I: Why Do Latin America and the Caribbean Matter?

Introduction Location, Location, Location, and a Complicated Relationship Organization of the Book

2. The Insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in World History

3. A Theoretical Framework to Understand Latin America in World Affairs

Introduction Realism Institutionalism Liberalism Constructivism The English School Critical Approaches Underdevelopment and Dependency Theory: Made in Latin America Using Theoretical Tools to Understand the Americas

Part II: Latin America and the Caribbean: Power and Political Economy

4. Economic Power: Commodity Lottery Booms and Busts

Introduction Growth and Inequality, Dependent Development, and Orden y Progreso The Commodity Lottery Latin America in the Twentieth Century World War II, Import Substitution (IS), Economic Growth and Protectionism The Cold War and a Realist World Order The Golden Era of Import Substitution Debt-led Growth and Globalization The “Lost Decade” of Economic Growth

5. Latin American and Caribbean: Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction Latin America and the Caribbean Enter the Twenty-First Century Economic Growth and the 2008 Global Downturn Made in China or Hecho en Mexico, or Brazil, Chile, Peru, or Colombia Latin America Looks to the East

Part 3: Security and Democracy

6. Power: Political Institutions and Democracy

7. Electoral Democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Introduction Electoral Democracies Latin America’s Two Lefts The Pragmatic Center and the Ghost of Caudillismo’s Past

Part IV: Latin America and the Caribbean on the World Stage

Introduction The Inter-American Context The Inter-American System and LAC Independence World War II, Security and the Birth of the Inter-American System The Cold War and U.S. Supremacy Security Cooperation 9/11and the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) The Americas: A Community of Democracies Reimagining Hemispheric Regionalism: The Economy

10. We Should Care about Latin America and the Caribbean

Introduction LAC: A Tale of Two Economies Brazil and Mexico: Friends or Foes? Latin America and the Caribbean: A Tale of Two Lefts Latin America and the Caribbean, and the U.S. Why Latin America and the Caribbean Matter

Bibliography Index