This book provides a comprehensive examination of Latin America and the Caribbean within the context of the international system, focusing on political, economic, and strategic dynamics. The fourth edition analyzes the evolving foreign relations of the region since 1980, offering an in-depth exploration of regional institutions, global interactions, and changing geopolitical realities. It inclu…
In the shadows of the Sun examines the region's disastrous experience in the 1980s, when sharp economic declines resulted from the debt crisis and the poor performance of regional exports. It focuses on alternative development strategies that have emerged in recent years, based on the goals of meeting basic needs and ending poverty; of eliminating discrimination based on gender, race, and ethni…
Current perspectives on Latin America’s role in the world tend to focus on one question: Why is Latin America always falling behind? Analysts and scholars offer answers grounded in history, economic underdevelopment, or democratic consolidation. Bagley and Horwitz, however, shift the central question to ask why and to what extent does Latin America matter in world politics, both now and in th…
This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present-from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic.