This book examines the role of external powers in Latin America in the 21st century. Non-traditional partners have significantly increased their political and e

The volume takes a broad view of recent social, political, and economic developments in Latin America. It contains six essays, focused on salient and cross-cutt

Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and mone

In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, pe

This book uses a sophisticated model to explain the apparently erratic pattern of conflict and cooperation in the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR).