Durante las tres décadas que nos distancian de la inauguración del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), la región pasó por una serie de crisis y sufrió recurrentes golpes políticos que terminaron en las amenazas del presidente Donald Trump y la renegociación del fundamental pacto económico. Hoy, una convergencia de factores internacionales abre nuevos horizontes, aunque, a la vez, el proyecto regional carece del apoyo político necesario para superar sus defectos y foment...

Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin America, as well as some of the implications of those processes for North Americans. Anthropologists, cultural critics, historians, and political scientists from North and South America offer new...

Esta obra describe las instituciones emergentes de la democracia participativa, analizando su relación con el sistema político, lo mismo que sus fines y objetivos. Se indaga en diversas preguntas: ¿se responsabiliza más a los gobiernos y a los funcionarios electos que a las elecciones?, ¿estas nuevas instituciones sostienen o cuestionan las formas tradicionales de clientelismo?, ¿inducen a que el sistema político sea más receptivo en términos de política y toma de decisiones?, ¿cómo afecta...

North American Regionalism problematizes “North America” as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border. By cutting across this division, the theoretically sophisticated essays in this volume yield new insights about politics, society, and the economy of North America, opening dialogues with the New Regionalism approach and the literature o...

This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the challenges of promoting and sustaining economic growth become ever more complex, firms in both advanced and industrializing countries face constant pressures for change from markets and technology. Globalization, heightened competition, and shorter product cycles mean that markets are increasingly volatile and fragmented. To contend with dem...