Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
University of London Press (Verlag)
9781908857224 (ISBN)
collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the
Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has
spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean's collective challenge to
neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. The volume's
comprehensive coverage incorporates insights from the domestic level in
Nicaragua, the Anglophone Caribbean, and especially Venezuela, while also
exploring ALBA's key regional economic and social-policy initiatives and its
place in the wider international relations of Latin American and the
Caribbean. Moving beyond normative debates about the project's
desirability and descriptive accounts of its initiatives, this volume provides
critical analyses that consider equally ALBA's progress, problems, and
prospects. In tackling many of the key questions about the past and future
of ALBA it reveals a frequently misunderstood organisation whose impacts have
been significant but whose failings also jeopardise the project's long-term
sustainability. This timely volume helps us to understand the dynamics
shaping the region at a time when its global relevance has never been greater.
Asa K. Cusack is based at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Latin America and Caribbean Centre. He is also an Honorary Research Associate of University College London (UCL) and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of London.
1. Introduction: ALBA from dawn to dusk?Asa K. CusackPart I2. Self-awareness and critique: an overview of ALBA researchChristopher David Absell3. ALBA and the fourth wave of regionalism in Latin AmericaOlivier DabenePart II4. A very Latin American social policy: ALBA, counter-hegemonic regionalism, and `living well'Kepa Artaraz5. The first five years of the SUCRE: successes and limitations of ALBA's regional virtual currencyStephanie PearcePart III6. ALBA in Nicaragua: political, economic and development implicationsGloria Carrion7. Pragmatism left, right, and centre? Revisiting ALBA accession in the Eastern CaribbeanAsa K. CusackPart IV8. Venezuela, ALBA, and the Communal Economic SystemHelen Yaffe9. From magical state to magical region? Ecology, labour and socialism in ALBARowan Lubbock10. Venezuela in crisis: how sustainable is its support for ALBA?Jose Manuel PuentePart V11. Progress, problems, and prospects of ALBA's alternative regionalismAsa K. Cusack
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 12 tables and 9 illustrations; 21 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781908857224 / 9781908857224 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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