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The Politics of Clientelism
"In Latin America the state is the prime regulator, coordinator, and pace-setter of the entire national system, the apex of the pyramid from which patronage, wealth, power, and programs flow. The state bears responsibility for the realization of civic needs, providing goods and services to each citizen. Doing so requires the exercise and maintenance of social and political control. It is John Martz's contention that clientelism underlines the fundamental character of Latin American social and political life. As the modernizing bureaucratic state has developed in Latin America, there has been a concurrent shifting away from clientelistic relationships. Yet in one form or another, political cl...
The Future of Inter-American Relations
Jorge I. Dominguez has brought together experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and the US to explore transnational aspects of crime, migration, trade, security, democracy, and international financial institutions in the Americas. They consider the effect of drug trafficking on government, the economy, and the rule of law, at both national and hemispheric levels. They look at the policy implications of migration and immigration trends, as well as trends in international trade. Assessing how to promote peace and democracy in the region, several essays examine regional issues and institutions. Others analyze the role of international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank in promoting economic reforms. Commissioned by the Inter-American Dialogue, this collection contributes to the debate on the future direction of inter-American relations.
Societies of Fear
As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempts to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society. Neoliberal economic policy, it is argued, has intensified the gulf between elites, insulated in gated estates monitored by private security firms, and the poor, who are increasingly mistrustful of state-sponsored attempts to impose order on their slums. Rather than the current trend towards government withdrawal, the situation can only be improved by co-operation between communities and police to build new networks of trust. In the end, violence and insecurity are inseparable from social justice and democracy.
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Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert
Bereits zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts hat die internationale Politik eine Dynamik entwickelt, die für jedermann ersichtlich eine neue internationale Ordnung formt und bekannte Machtstrukturen, Konfliktlinien und geopolitische Gewichtungen ablöst. Unumstößliche Tatsache ist inzwischen, dass sich kein Staat der Erde den neuen weltpolitischen Herausforderungen entziehen kann. Internationaler Terrorismus, internationale militärische Interventionen und globale Wirtschaftsverflechtungen sind Kennzeichen einer neuen Dimension von Globalisierung in allen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Bereichen, aber auch von weltpolitischen Umbruchprozessen, die aufgrund ihrer oftmals destruktiven Potentiale die Stabilität des gesamten internationalen Systems in Frage zu stellen scheinen.
1981
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The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly less dramatic, has been the revolutionary spread of free market capitalism throughout much of Latin America during the same period. In a wide-ranging survey that illuminates both the history and present business climate of the region, Paul Roberts and Karen Araujo describe the economic transformation currently taking place in Latin America. And as they do so, they also reexamine many of the prevailing orthodoxies concerning international deve...
1986
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