Encountering U S Empire In Socialist Venezuela

Author : Timothy Gill
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822989165

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Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela by Timothy Gill Pdf

Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire. Scholars have analyzed how the US government has worked through international financial institutions, its Central Intelligence Agency, and outright warfare to achieve its will. In this book, Timothy M. Gill spotlights how the US government also worked through democracy promotion to undermine governments abroad, including in Venezuela. President Hugo Chávez, who ruled from 1999 until his death in 2013, was among the democratically elected Latin American state leaders who embraced socialism and challenged the idea of US global power. Gill shows how US government agencies funded and trained opposition parties and activists, and how such intervention often was justified in neocolonial and racist terms. Through analysis of documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, embassy cables, and interviews with US government and Venezuelan nonprofit members, Gill details such operations and the imperial thinking behind them.

Author : Gabriel Hetland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231557092

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Democracy on the Ground by Gabriel Hetland Pdf

Is democracy possible only when it is safe for elites? Latin American history seems to suggest so. Right-wing forces have repeatedly deposed elected governments that challenged the rich and accepted democracy only after the defanging of the Left and widespread market reform. Latin America’s recent “left turn” raised the question anew: how would the Right react if democracy threatened elite interests? This book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country. He finds that such measures were more successful in Venezuela than Bolivia regardless of which type of party held office, though existing research suggests that deepening democracy is much more likely under a left party. Hetland accounts for these findings by arguing that Venezuela’s ruling party achieved hegemony—presenting its ideas as the ideas of all—while Bolivia’s ruling party did not. The Venezuelan Right was compelled to act on the Left’s political terrain; this pushed it to implement participatory reform in an unexpectedly robust way. In Bolivia, demobilization of popular movements led to an inhospitable environment for local democratic deepening under any party. Democracy on the Ground shows that, just as right-wing hegemony can reshape the Left, leftist hegemony can reshape the Right. Offering new perspectives on participation, populism, and Latin American politics, this book challenges widespread ideas about the constraints on democracy.

Author : Gregory S. Mahler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793648532

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Foreign Perceptions of the United States under Donald Trump by Gregory S. Mahler Pdf

Donald Trump and the Trump administration radically altered a number of international policies and behaviors of the United States, and changed the position of the United States on many international agreements, including environmental agreements, trade agreements, military agreements, and human rights agreements. This book studies of the effect of those actions, and Trump’s style of behavior, on the standing of the United States in the global community. In eighteen individual case studies the authors examine traditional relationships between their countries and the United States prior to the Trump election, including areas of tension and traditional areas of agreement and cooperation. They address expectations about what the outcome of the 2016 American election would be, and the immediate reaction to the election’s outcome. They explore how responses to American policies varied in their country, and whether any American initiatives were especially controversial. And they explore how the relations between their nation and the United States changed over the Trump years. The authors reflect on whether anything was permanently lost or gained by the end of the Trump years, and speculate on the lasting consequences of Trump foreign policies and international behavior for America’s standing overseas.

Author : C.WRIGHT MILLS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE POWER ELITE by C.WRIGHT MILLS Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018595605

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Latin America & Empire Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reuben Zahler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816521128

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Ambitious Rebels by Reuben Zahler Pdf

"By examining everyday life in Venezuela's post-colonial period, Reuben Zahler provides a broad perspective on conditions throughout the Americas and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards during Venezuela's transformation from aSpanish colony to a modern republic"--

Author : North American Congress on Latin America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UIUC:30112033699957

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NACLA's Latin America & Empire Report by North American Congress on Latin America Pdf

Author : Erik Grimmer-Solem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483827

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Learning Empire by Erik Grimmer-Solem Pdf

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.

Author : Louis Baudin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1614271534

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A Socialist Empire by Louis Baudin Pdf

2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Many social scientists have attempted to lump the unique Inca society into modern political and economic categories. Louis Baudin argued that Incan society was socialistic. He claimed that the ayllu system is what classified the Inca as a system of state socialism. Baudin defines state socialism as being based on the idea of the regulative action of a central power in social relations. According to Baudin, the idea of private property in Europe had been in existence for centuries, but no such idea existed at the times of the Incas. He claims, that society in Peru rested on a foundation of collective ownership which, to a certain extent, facilitated its establishment, because the effacement of the individual within a group prepared him to allow himself to be absorbed. Baudin argued that the higher ranking Incas tried, and succeeded to an extent, to force a degree of uniformity on the common Inca. The Inca were forced to dress similarly, eat the same food, practice the same religion, and speak the same language, Quechua.

Author : David C. Engerman,Max Paul Friedman,Melani McAlister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108317856

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The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the Present by David C. Engerman,Max Paul Friedman,Melani McAlister Pdf

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.

Author : Enrique Dussel
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802821316

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A History of the Church in Latin America by Enrique Dussel Pdf

This comprehensive history of the church in Latin America, with its emphasis on theology, will help historians and theologians to better understand the formation and continuity of the Latin American tradition.

Author : Timothy M. Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429756900

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The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas by Timothy M. Gill Pdf

With the rise of President Trump, many are coming to question where the United States (U.S.) is headed and, whether we might witness an imperial decline under Trump. Social scientists largely recognize the contemporary hegemonic position of the U.S. at the global level, but questions persist concerning the future of the U.S. Empire. With the Trump Administration at the helm, these questions are all the more salient. Drawing on the expertise of a panel of contributors and guided by Michael Mann’s model of power, this book critically interrogates the future of U.S. global power and provides insights on what we might expect from the U.S. Empire under Trump. Recognizing that U.S. imperial power involves an array of sources of power (ideological, economic, military, and political), the contributors analyze the Trump Administration’s approach towards nine countries in the Western Hemisphere, and five sets of global policies, including inter-American relations, drugs, trade, the environment, and immigration. Each case presents a historical look at the trajectory of relations as they have developed under Trump and what we might expect in the future from the administration. The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas will be of great interest to students and scholars of U.S. foreign policy, Foreign Policy Analysis, political sociology, and American politics.

Author : Hannah Appel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478004578

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The Licit Life of Capitalism by Hannah Appel Pdf

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism—practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.

Author : Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521853644

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The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad Pdf

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

Author : Priya Lal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107104525

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African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania by Priya Lal Pdf

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75.