Bolivia At The Crossroads

Author : Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000385618

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Bolivia at the Crossroads by Soledad Valdivia Rivera Pdf

As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia? After almost 14 years in power, the government of Bolivia’s first indigenous president collapsed in 2019 amidst widescale protest and allegations of electoral fraud. The contested transitional government that emerged was quickly struck by the impacts of the Covid-19 public health crisis. This book reflects on this critical moment in Bolivia’s development from the perspectives of politics, the economy, the judiciary and the environment. It asks what key issues emerged during Evo Morales’s administration and what are the main challenges awaiting the next government in order to steer the country through a new and uncertain road ahead. As the world considers what the ultimate legacy of Morales’s left-wing social experiment will be, this book will be of great interest to researchers across the fields of Latin American studies, development, politics, and economics, as well as to professionals active in the promotion of development in the country and the region.

Author : Frances Hagopian,Scott P. Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113944560X

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The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America by Frances Hagopian,Scott P. Mainwaring Pdf

The late twentieth century witnessed the birth of an impressive number of new democracies in Latin America. This wave of democratization since 1978 has been by far the broadest and most durable in the history of Latin America, but many of the resulting democratic regimes also suffer from profound deficiencies. What caused democratic regimes to emerge and survive? What are their main achievements and shortcomings? This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It seeks to explain the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and it analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy and analyses of nine compelling country cases.

Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271041285

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Crossroads by Cynthia Arnson Pdf

In this expanded and updated edition of the story of the struggles over the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests. She also includes an entirely new chapter that carries the story of the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates to the end of the Bush administration.

Author : Waltraud Q. Morales
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438108209

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A Brief History of Bolivia by Waltraud Q. Morales Pdf

Recent decades have witnessed major reform within Bolivia: an impressive democratic and economic resurgence

Author : Carmen Soliz,Rossana Barragán
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826366184

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The Struggle for Natural Resources by Carmen Soliz,Rossana Barragán Pdf

The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Enriched by the extractivism and commodity frontiers approaches to world history, the book treats Bolivia's political struggles over natural resources as long-term processes that outlast immediate political events. Exploration of the Bolivian case invites dialogue and comparison with other parts of the world, particularly regions and countries of the so-called Global South. The book begins by examining three Bolivian resources at the center of political dispute since the early colonial period, namely land, water, and minerals. Carmen Soliz, Rossana Barragán, and Sarah Hines show that, as in the colonial and early republican past, these resources have remained the focus of political contention to the present day. Until the end of the nineteenth century, Bolivia's battle over natural resources was primarily concentrated in the highlands and inter-Andean valleys. Beginning in the 1860s, the bicycle and soon the automobile industries triggered demand for natural rubber found in the heart of the Amazon. José Orsag analyzes the impact of this extractive economy at the turn of the twentieth century. The book concludes by examining two resources that are central to understanding the last century of Bolivia's history. Kevin Young examines the fraught business of hydrocarbons, and Thomas Grisaffi analyzes the coca/cocaine circuit. Each chapter studies the social dynamics and political conflicts that shaped the processes of extraction, exchange, and ownership of each of these resources

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCSB:31205033893031

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Ellner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538141571

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Latin American Extractivism by Steve Ellner Pdf

This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in responses from state actors to those movements.

Author : Angus McNelly
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822989929

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Now We Are in Power by Angus McNelly Pdf

During the first decade of the century, Evo Morales and other leftists took control of governments across Latin America. In the case of Bolivia, Morales was that country’s first Indigenous president and was elected following five years of popular insurrection after decades of neoliberal governance. Now We Are in Power makes the argument that the so-called Pink Tide should be understood as a passive revolution, a process that has two phases: a period of subaltern struggle from average citizens strong enough to culminate in a political crisis, which is followed by a time of reconciliation and transformation. Angus McNelly examines this movement as it unfolded and evaluates how passive revolution plays out over a prolonged crisis, ultimately demonstrating the inherent contradictions and complications of the process.

Author : Leslie B. Rout
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292753990

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Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939 by Leslie B. Rout Pdf

After three years of indecisive but bloody war, guns lay silent in the Chaco Boreal in June 1935. Fifty years of bickering between Bolivia, a landlocked country seeking a river exit to the sea, and Paraguay, a land-hungry country seeking territorial aggrandizement and supposed mineral wealth, had culminated in open warfare in June 1932. By 1935 the antagonists, near exhaustion, finally agreed to discuss their differences. Leslie B. Rout, Jr., examines three facets of the dispute and the inter-American peace conference that settled it. He analyzes the futile diplomatic efforts to prevent the outbreak of hostilities, discusses the diplomatic initiatives that culminated in the June cease-fire, and describes the frustrating but ultimately successful diplomatic struggle that produced a definitive settlement. By enumerating the problems and progress of the peace conference, Rout demonstrates that, despite occasions of open diplomacy, it was through secret negotiation that agreement was finally attained. He concludes that, although the negotiators betrayed unabashed cynicism, violated stated Pan-American ideals, and disregarded the "troublesome" terms of the June 1935 cease-fire, they deserve praise. Had the mediators failed to produce a viable solution in July 1938, the peace conference would have collapsed, renewed warfare would have resulted—and the neighboring powers inevitably would have become involved. Given this potential catastrophe, the mediators had to solve the diplomatic problems by the means available.

Author : Roberto Regalado Álvarez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069356262

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Latin America at the Crossroads by Roberto Regalado Álvarez Pdf

Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today and the significance of the recent election of leftist governments in several countries. He examines the political crises and the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neo-liberalism - from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil - and considers alternative options for development.

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231540254

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Pakistan at the Crossroads by Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

In Pakistan at the Crossroads, top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military leaders domestically and diplomatically. Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military, strategies of political parties, police and law enforcement reform, trends in judicial activism, the rise of border conflicts, economic challenges, financial entanglements with foreign powers, and diplomatic relations with India, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and the United States. In addition to ethnic strife in Baluchistan and Karachi, terrorist violence in Pakistan in response to the American-led military intervention in Afghanistan and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by means of drones, as well as to Pakistani army operations in the Pashtun area, has reached an unprecedented level. There is a growing consensus among state leaders that the nation's main security threats may come not from India but from its spiraling internal conflicts, though this realization may not sufficiently dissuade the Pakistani army from targeting the country's largest neighbor. This volume is therefore critical to grasping the sophisticated interplay of internal and external forces complicating the country's recent trajectory.

Author : Torrico Villanueva, Erick R.,illegas Taborga, Sandra
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001963

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Assessment oMedia Development in Bolivia based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators by Torrico Villanueva, Erick R.,illegas Taborga, Sandra Pdf

Author : Nick Kapur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674988484

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Japan at the Crossroads by Nick Kapur Pdf

In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed the evolution of Japan’s politics and culture, and its global role. Nick Kapur’s analysis helps resolve Japan’s essential paradox as being innovative yet regressive, flexible yet resistant, imaginative yet wedded to tradition.

Author : Kenneth Duane Lehman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0820321168

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Bolivia and the United States by Kenneth Duane Lehman Pdf

This comprehensive account of U.S.-Bolivian relations presents startling contrasts between the histories, mythologies, and economies of the two countries, debunking the pop-culture myth that Bolivia is a poorer and less modern version of the United States. Kenneth D. Lehman focuses primarily on the countries' relationship during the twentieth century, highlighting periods when Bolivia became important to the United States as a provider of tin during World War II, as a potential source of regional instability during the Cold War, and as a supplier of cocaine to the U.S. market in recent years. While the partnerships forged in these situations have been rooted in mutual self-interest, the United States was--and is--clearly dominant. Repeatedly, the U.S. policy toward Bolivia has moved from assistance to frustration and imposition, and the Bolivian response has intensified from submission to resentment and resistance. Bolivia and the United States presents an illuminating discussion of the real as well as mythical bonds that link these most distant and different neighbors, simultaneously providing an abundance of evidence to show how factors of culture and power complicate and limit true partnership.

Author : Ursula Durand Ochoa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137453556

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The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru by Ursula Durand Ochoa Pdf

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case.