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Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations
ISBN: 9781442226463 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of U.S.-Latin American relations has been characterized by a complex fusion of tensions, collaboration, misperceptions, and intervention. Offering a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive reader traces the often-troubled relationship from the beginnings of the nineteenth century to the presidency of Barack Obama. Completely revised and updated, this third edition includes original essays on critically important issues such as immigration, the environment, and the Obama administration's policy toward the region. In addition to this added policy section,...
The history of U.S.-Latin American relations has been characterized by a complex fusion of tensions, collaboration, misperceptions, and intervention. ...
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246,17 zł |
Struggle in the Andes: Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
ISBN: 9781477302750 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963-1964. Several hundred peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes occupied neighboring haciendas in an attempt to retake lands they felt had been stolen from them over the years. Hacienda peasants also participated in this movement, forming peasant sindicatos (unions) to improve their labor conditions. The land-seizure movement brought with it an upsurge in community political mobilization. Throughout the highlands, village leaders banded together in regional federations,... A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963-1964. Several hundred peasant communit... |
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135,07 zł |
The Socialist Party of Argentina, 1890-1930
ISBN: 9780292775404 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early part of the twentieth century, Argentina's Socialist Party became the largest and most effective socialist organization in Latin America. Richard J. Walter's interpretive study begins with the party's origins in the 1890s, traces its development through 1912, and then offers a comprehensive analysis of its activities and programs during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930. His aim has been to provide a detailed case study of a Latin American political party within a specific historical context. The work... In the early part of the twentieth century, Argentina's Socialist Party became the largest and most effective socialist organization in Latin Ameri... |
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124,68 zł |
Politics in the Altiplano: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru
ISBN: 9781477301500 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The department of Puno in southern Peru is an area oriented to livestock and agricultural production, peopled by an Indian peasant mass and a dominant minority of culturally Westernized mestizos. A small but growing hybrid group, the cholos, bridged the cultural gap and collaborated with dissident merchant elements within the mestizo group to challenge the economic, social, and political order of the altiplano (high plateau) system. Politics in the Altiplano analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in the plural society as it underwent socioeconomic... The department of Puno in southern Peru is an area oriented to livestock and agricultural production, peopled by an Indian peasant mass and a domin... |
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103,89 zł |
Restoring the "Unwritten Alliance" in Brazil- United States Relations
ISBN: 9781503098787 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first half of the 20th Century, an "Unwritten Alliance" amicably existed between the United States and Brazil. This is not true today. Some suggest the two countries' strategic interests continue to diverge. This perception of divergence must be reversed. In response to Brazil's emergence as a world power, the United States must overhaul its bilateral security strategy for the world's 7th largest economy and Latin America's biggest military. Brazil's real genuine concerns with sovereignty and reciprocity along with negative American stereotypes that permeate Latin American culture will...
In the first half of the 20th Century, an "Unwritten Alliance" amicably existed between the United States and Brazil. This is not true today. Some sug...
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59,25 zł |
U.S.-Latin American Nuclear Relations: From Commitment to Defiance
ISBN: 9781503109858 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America's renewed interest in nuclear energy thus presents challenges to the "new nuclear age." The latter is a term used to characterize a milieu dominated by nuclear anxiety about horizontal nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, the desire to prevent nuclear terrorism (post-9/11), and the need to avert future nuclear accidents (post-Fukushima Daichi incident).4 This project report focuses on four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico) and highlights two important findings. First, the U.S. has sought to diminish the appeal of nuclear weapons by relying...
Latin America's renewed interest in nuclear energy thus presents challenges to the "new nuclear age." The latter is a term used to characterize a mili...
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68,40 zł |
Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo: Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932
ISBN: 9781477304372 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it is one of the most important political parties to appear in twentieth-century Latin America. Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo is the first major analysis of the social and political bases of the Aprista movement. Previous studies of APRA had been chiefly descriptive in nature and did not utilize modern social science approaches in analyzing the movement. Peter F. Klaren's major thesis is that APRA emerged in the 1930s as a... Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it i... |
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103,89 zł |
Crisis in Honduras: The Search for Answers to the Removal of President Manuel Zelaya
ISBN: 9781503144040 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The removal of presidents from office in Latin America has generally occurred under delineated constitutional procedures since the military governments of the mid-twentieth century returned to their barracks. Many theories on presidential removal have been tested among numerous cases, yet none alone can explain the Honduran political crisis of 2009 that led to the ouster of constitutionally elected President Manuel Zelaya. The situation harkened back to the days when military coups were prevalent as the armed forces, acting under the authority of a court order, arrested the president, and...
The removal of presidents from office in Latin America has generally occurred under delineated constitutional procedures since the military government...
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59,25 zł |
The Scale Shift of Cocalero Movements in Peru and Bolivia
ISBN: 9781503145788 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study seeks to explain variation in the outcomes of cocalero mobilization in Peru and Bolivia. When cocaine became a popular drug in the United States in the late 1970s to early 1980s, governments of the coca-producing countries in the Eastern Andes began implementing policies that included forcible eradication of coca plants, often with U.S. assistance. Cocaleros in Bolivia not only protested against government policy, but also formed a national movement using political alliances that included indigenous and labor unions. In contrast, Peru's cocaleros also mobilized against forced...
This study seeks to explain variation in the outcomes of cocalero mobilization in Peru and Bolivia. When cocaine became a popular drug in the United S...
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59,25 zł |
Resource Conflicts: Emerging Struggles over Strategic Commodities in Latin America Phase II
ISBN: 9781503145825 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The efficiency and success of U.S. security initiatives in Latin America requires a thorough understanding of resource conflict and the state's role in managing it. International investments in mining and hydrocarbons in the Central Andes could potentially affect U.S. economic influence in those countries and have real implications for U.S. security presence relative to other world powers. Resource conflict makes it hard for the U.S. government to monitor extraction and production of strategic materials that are critical for the U.S. government to meet its defense needs and to achieve a...
The efficiency and success of U.S. security initiatives in Latin America requires a thorough understanding of resource conflict and the state's role i...
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59,25 zł |
Mitigating the Risk of Environmental Hazards in Mexico
ISBN: 9781503164130 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The government of Mexico is grappling with vicious cartels, global economic recession, a substantial decline in the country's known oil reserves, and significant environmental issues. If the situation continues to deteriorate, the United States may be asked to assist in a variety of roles. Personnel assigned to work in Mexico will be exposed to a complex and wide array of environmental hazards that will require robust counter measures. Based on the experience of the U.S. military, history shows that unintended exposures to environmental hazards continue to occur despite best efforts. Although...
The government of Mexico is grappling with vicious cartels, global economic recession, a substantial decline in the country's known oil reserves, and ...
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68,40 zł |
Venezuela as an Exporter of 4th Generation Warfare Instability
ISBN: 9781503186378 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost no one seems to understand the Marxist-Leninist foundations of Hugo Chavez's political thought. It becomes evident, however, in the general vision of his "Bolivarian Revolution." The abbreviated concept is to destroy the old foreign-dominated (U.S. dominated) political and economic systems in the Americas, to take power, and to create a socialist, nationalistic, and "popular" (direct) democracy in Venezuela that would sooner or later extend throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite the fact that the notion of the use of force (compulsion) is never completely separated from the...
Almost no one seems to understand the Marxist-Leninist foundations of Hugo Chavez's political thought. It becomes evident, however, in the general vis...
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59,25 zł |
Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
ISBN: 9780745335728 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration, offering alternatives to the neoliberal model. "Religion Without Redemption" examines the history of religious and political ideas in Latin America, in order to show how and why the continent s politics and economics work as they do.
Martinez Andrade focuses on the central role of religion in the region and how it influences people s interaction with changes in modern economics. Capitalism in Latin America, Martinez Andrade argues, has taken on religious characteristics, with places of worshipshopping malls... The world s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration, offering alternatives to the neoliberal model. "Religion Without Re...
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164,06 zł |
Successful Insurgent Revolutions in Latin America: Analysis of the Cuban and Nicaraguan Revolutions
ISBN: 9781505208719 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,25 zł |
Civil Service Reform in Brazil: Principles Versus Practice
ISBN: 9780292768963 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, during the authoritarian government of Getulio Vargas, the Brazilian civil service reform movement began. Thirty-five years later, the actual administrative practices of the country did not adequately reflect the philosophy underlying this movement, a philosophy drawn from the reform experience and public administration theories of the United States and Western Europe. This book examines why these ideas, when transplanted to another cultural setting, did not take root and, further, why they unexpectedly proved to be most applicable in Brazil during periods of autocratic... In the 1930s, during the authoritarian government of Getulio Vargas, the Brazilian civil service reform movement began. Thirty-five years later, th... |
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103,89 zł |
Reflections on Latin American Development
ISBN: 9781477305898 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic development has been an challenge facing the countries of Latin America. Because the United States, from the very nature of its geographic and economic relationship with its southern neighbors, must inevitably exercise a strong influence on the course which that development takes, it is important that North Americans understand conditions in Latin America and the attitudes of its peoples. Roberto de Oliveira Campos, former Brazilian Minister of Economic Planning, is in a unique position to evaluate both past accomplishments and future problems. In this group of essays,... Economic development has been an challenge facing the countries of Latin America. Because the United States, from the very nature of its geographic... |
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83,10 zł |
Cartel Car Bombings in Mexico
ISBN: 9781505808803 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,55 zł |
The Evolution of Los Zetas in Mexico and Central America: Sadism as an Instrument of Cartel Warfare
ISBN: 9781505832051 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States has diplomatic relations with 194 independent nations. Of these, none is more important to America than Mexico in terms of trade, investment, tourism, natural resources, migration, energy, and security. In recent years, narco-violence has afflicted our neighbor to the south-with more than 50,000 drug-related murders since 2007 and some 26,000 men, women, and children missing. President Enrique Pena Nieto has tried to divert national attention from the bloodshed through reforms in energy, education, anti-hunger, health care, and other areas. Even though the death rate has...
The United States has diplomatic relations with 194 independent nations. Of these, none is more important to America than Mexico in terms of trade, in...
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77,55 zł |
Mexico: Background and U.S. Relations
ISBN: 9781506018515 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Congress has maintained significant interest in neighboring Mexico, a close ally and top trade partner whose political and economic situation has significant ramifications for the United States. President Enrique Pena Nieto of the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) assumed the Mexican presidency on December 1, 2012, after 12 years of rule by the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Pena Nieto has enacted structural reforms and bolstered economic relations with the United States, but observers maintain he has mishandled recent high-profile human rights cases and allegations...
Congress has maintained significant interest in neighboring Mexico, a close ally and top trade partner whose political and economic situation has sign...
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91,28 zł |
The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930
ISBN: 9780292765115 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929, the Brazilian state was one of the most interventionist in Latin America. This study counters the previous general belief that before 1930 Brazil was dominated by an export oligarchy comprised of European and North American capitalists and that only later did the state become prominent in the country's economic development. Topik examines the state's performance during the First Republic... In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the... |
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103,89 zł |