books by Institute of Latin American Studies

books by Institute of Latin American Studies

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Rule of Law in Latin America: The International Promotion of Judicial Reform (ILAS History)

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2001

During the last fifteen years over a billion dollars of foreign aid have been spent to support judicial reform processes in Latin America?s fragile democracies. This volume analyses the logic and effects of current international donor efforts to support legal reform across the region. The contributors examine the ways in which international ...

Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003

This volume examines the political, cultural, and social role of the population with African background in the shaping of national identity in various Latin American countries. Slavery survived well into the nineteenth century in countries such as Brazil and Cuba; first its existence and then the dismantling of the institution strongly affected ...

Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Open Regionalism
Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2001

This collection is a sober assessment of the state of regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. It studies the question from four perspectives: economic, institutional, political and in relation to the rest of the world. It considers the questions raised by LAC countries? efforts to use ?new? regionalism to address the challenges of ...

Brazil Since 1985: Politics, Economy and Society

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003

Looking into Brazil?s recent experience of democracy is an arduous undertaking, given the complexities of a country of continental size and great regional contrasts, where areas of prosperity and wealth mingle with underdevelopment and poverty. This book looks at some of the important issues involved in building up a democracy and keeping it ...

Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin America

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2002

A Great Edited Work on Nation-State Formation in Latin America
This edited work focuses on the formation of the republics of Latin America. It covers countries such as Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. The book shows how politics, economy, war, conscription, and nationalism affected the ...

The Pinochet Case: Origins, Progress, and Implications

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003

The 1998 arrest of Senator Augusto Pinochet in London, on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes, made headlines all over the world. Part of a wider, ongoing attempt by human rights activists and lawyers to prosecute the crimes of Latin American military regimes, the case has important implications for ...

Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004

The victory by Vicente Fox Quesada in Mexico?s July 2000 presidential election was a watershed in the country's political history. His triumph convincingly marked the consolidation of electoral democracy and, by ending seven decades of uninterrupted national rule by the "official" Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), symbolized a clear break ...

Fujimori's Peru: The Political Economic (Institute of Latin American Studies)
John Crabtree, Jim Thomas

Institute of Latin American Studies, 1998

This book provides an evaluation of Peruvian politics and economics in the 1990s, on the evidence available up until the end of 1997. The purpose is twofold: to detect continuities and discontinuities between the Fujimori period and earlier ones, and to offer an answer -- however tentative -- to the question of whether the Fujimori government has ...

Amazonia at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Sustainable Development (Institute of Latin American Studies)
Anthony Hall

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000

This collection examines past patterns of destructive resource extraction in Amazonia and, more importantly, critically analyses a series of newer initiatives that offer more sustainable options. These include: new production strategies such as agroforestry, innovative resource governance models such as inland fisheries co-management, and ...

Encuentros Antropologicos: Power, Identity and Mobility in Mexico (Institute of Latin American Studies)
Xochitl Leyva Solano

Institute of Latin American Studies, 1998

Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond

Maxine Molyneux

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003

Gender Politics in Latin America
Over the years, Maxine Molyneux has written some of the smartest articles that have been published in English on gender politics in Latin America. It is exciting to have many of her classic articles combined in one collection, along with some new articles addressing ...

To Make the Earth Bear Fruit: Essays on Fertility, Work and Gender in Highland Bolivia (Ilas Series)
Olivia Harris

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2001

This book brings together previously published ethnographic essays based on anthropological fieldwork in Northern Potosí, Bolivia, spanning the past 25 years. A new Introduction contextualises the pieces within the empirical and analytical developments in Latin American and Andean anthropology. The essays discuss key concerns and cultural ...

Brazil and South Korea: Economic Crisis and Restructuring

Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004

The 1990s saw lower- and middle-income countries throughout the world come under pressure to open their domestic markets to international trade and investment. Despite the progressive implementation of market-friendly policies, many emerging market countries experienced financial market volatility, exchange rate collapse, and slumps in output. ...