Susanne Jonas, Nancy Stein

Democracy in Latin America

Visions and Realities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent events throughout Latin America have placed issues of democracy on centerstage. Collected here for the first time are articles that evaluate different models of democracy, challenging the realities and myths of the practice of democracy in various countries throughout the region. This is a provocative and revealing study of the critical issues in the struggle for democracy and current events in the Third World and the United States. Through the writings of leading Latin American and U.S. scholars, including James Petras, Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, and Max Azicri, the book addresses such important topics as whether Washington's model democracies are truly democratic, and how Guatemala's civilian regime compares to Nicaragua's revolutionary democracy. By covering countries as diverse as Cuba, Argentina, and Guatemala, the collection adds to an understanding of different models of democracy and challenges traditional methodologies used to evaluate them. Several essays put the issue of democratization in the context of economic crisis, resulting in political redefinitions, and the emergence of the new social movements. The book includes a foreword and introduction by the editors, and concludes with a comprehensive index. It will be a useful resource for courses in political science and Latin American history, and an important addition to college, university, and public libraries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780897891653
• ISBN-10: 0897891651
• Artikelnr.: 25602204

Autorenporträt

SUSANNE JONAS teaches Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has written extensively on Central America and is currently working on a book on Guatemala, as well as analytical articles concerning recent developments in Central America based on firsthand observation. NANCY STEIN has researched and written extensively on U.S. policy toward Latin America with a focus on Central America and U.S. military policy. She is a former president and current board member of Global Options, a San Francisco-based research organization.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction by Susanne Jonas The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath:
The Secret Wounds by Eduardo Galeano The Construction of Democracy in
Nicaragua by Susanne Jonas and Nancy Stein The Origins of Crisis and
Instability in Central America by Edelberto Torres-Rivas Contradictions of
Guatemala's "Political Opening" by Susanne Jonas The Redemocratization
Process by James Petras Foreign Debt, the Threat of Foreign Intervention,
and Democracy in Latin America by Pablo González Casanova The Unpayable
Debt: An Interview with Fidel Castro by Regino Díaz Twenty-Six Years of
Cuban Revolutionary Politics: An Appraisal by Max Azicri Haiti: A Complex
Situation and an Unknown Struggle by Gérard Pierre-Charles Economic Crisis
and Dependency: The Case of the Dominican Republic by José A. Moreno Index