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ALAIN ROUQUIÉ SELECTED SUMMARIES
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Authoritarians and Democrats
By the end of the 1960s, most of Latin America was under repressive military rule. Conversely, the 1980s have seen the emergence of formal, constitutional democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Authoritarians and Democrats describes these changes and the future prospects for constitutional government in Latin America.
Caudillos
In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Núñez, Mexico’s Porfirio Díaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican "Benefactor" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Perón and his wife Evita, Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner - called "The Tyrannosaur," Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
In the Shadow of the Generals
Providing an in-depth study of the construction of foreign policy in developing countries, Martin Mullins takes an original line of both a post-positivist methodology and an acceptance of the importance of the realism in foreign policy formation in the Southern Cone countries from the early 1980s to the present day. This carefully constructed work highlights the case of Chilean foreign policy in the 1990s in order to examine the adoption of realism in its policy formation, in contrast to the strong historical narratives of Argentina and Brazil. The volume focuses on the nuances of foreign policy making through a comprehensive study of political culture that underlines the links between domestic and foreign policy sets in the region.
Democracy in Latin America
Events such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it imperative for students to grasp the history and possible directions of Latin American political change. This title gives readers both the background and the analytical models necessary for an accurate understanding of this area's political past and future. To examine the problems posed by political development, Professor Camp has divided this volume into four parts. The first section sets the tone, with two introductory essays providing an overview of the problems and dilemmas posed by democratization. The other three parts explore important aspects of this overall process.
Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms that coexist within the capitalist form of economic organization. This book is distinctive in its empirical and comparative approach to the study of the economic and cultural basis of social order, and in the wide range of societies that it covers. Japan, Germany and the USA constitute the core of the modern global econom...
China's Party Congress
The first analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress. Drawing from new documentary evidence, Guoguang Wu examines the operation of the highest decision-making body in China's single ruling party, developing a theory of authoritarian legitimization that integrates informal politics with institutions.
L'Appel des Amériques
La vie d'Alain Rouquié est intimement liée à celle de l'Amérique latine. A l'appel des Amériques, l'actuel Président de la Maison de l'Amérique latine a répondu tout au long de sa vie par un engagement de chercheur, l'action diplomatique, la diffusion d'une expertise politique respectée dans le monde entier. Un parcours qui aura mené ce natif d' "horizons bornés dans les vieilles terres des Causses et Cévennes ", comme il l'écrit lui-même, au sommet de la reconnaissance académique et diplomatique : un véritable roman d'apprentissage. On ne s'étonnera pas qu'à l'heure des bilans, celui que l'homme de sciences consacre à son itinéraire propre soit mêlé d'aussi près à celui de son objet d'étude. Et c'est à un puissant retour sur l'histoire du sous-continent que nous convie finalement celui qui aura répondu avec tant d'enthousiasme à son appel. Une histoire dynamique, dont le récit convie le lecteur à prendre la mesure des formidables atouts de " l'Extrême-occident " à l'heure où la mondialisation se fait sans pitié pour les faibles.
Le Mexique
Le Mexique est aujourd’hui la 13e puissance mondiale et la 2e en Amérique latine après le Brésil. Donné en modèle aux autres États du continent dans les années 1990, il a désormais l’image d’un pays incertain, enlisé dans ses problèmes de sécurité interne, peu présent sur la scène internationale et en proie à des crises économiques à répétition. Pour comprendre cette trajectoire, on ne peut faire abstraction d’un fait géographique déterminant : ses 3 200 km de frontière commune avec les États-Unis. L’histoire du Mexique a été marquée de manière indélébile par cette contiguïté intangible, pour le pire comme pour le meilleur. Les États-Unis sont depuis...
