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Imperialism in the 21st Century
Perhaps no word today is used and misused more than globalization. It generally serves to refer to worldwide epoch-defining changes in the organizatio...
The Politics of Social Change in Latin America
"With irony, insight, and elegant simplicity, Veltmeyer shows us how the power of money and the power of collective commitment interact in the sweepst...
This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It ...
Regime Change in New Times
This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of ant...
The book argues that the Cuban Revolution should be understood as a model of socialist human development. Several particular features of this model we...
The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism
Annotation Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States; tumbling stock markets; environmental destruction; sluggish economic growth, unpre...
A World to Win
The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This grou...
These essays cover approximately a half a century from approximately the 1960s to the end of the millennium. Patel begins with a broad review of chang...
Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance
The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installati...
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador
Leading academics investigate the left turn in Latin American politics....
A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?
In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the exp...
Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change
The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of "another development." This i...
The Changing Dynamics of Class Struggle
Challenging centuries-old systems and barriers as the only study on the contemporary dynamics of the class struggle within the context of this region,...
Capitalism's New Frontier
Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food produc...
Development and Resistance Dynamics
This book explores the dynamics of the recent โprogressive cycleโ in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change...
An Introduction
This book provides an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and th...
US Imperialism in Latin America
This book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism in Latin America, with reference to the projection of US state power as a means of both adva...
The Limits To Electoral Politics
The development of a substantial and enduring democracy in Chile involves strengthening civil society, democratizing the permanent institutions of the...
Foreign Investment Matters
The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy. The most heated debate and the mos...
Making History Today
The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the len...
A Land for Sale
Petras and Veltmeyer argue that Cardoso paved the way for what amounted to the takeover of a large and important part of Brazil's economy by foreign i...
The Landless Rural Workers Movement
The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contemporar...
A Comparative Perspective on the Political Economy of Structural Adjustment
In Latin America the 1980s opened with a crisis in the capacity of governments in the region to make interest payments on their accumulated external d...
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Lessons from the Cuban Revolution
Henry Veltmeyer examines the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of socialist human development, critiquing of the notion of human development used ...
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migraton. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and dev...