Decline of the U.S. Hegemony? (eBook, PDF)

A Challenge of ALBA and a New Latin American Integration of the Twenty-First Century
Redaktion: Bagley, Bruce M.; Defort, Magdalena

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes ALBA's structure and dynamics, its practicality, its medium and long-term sustainability, and its capacity to influence regional and international affairs. The work examines ALBA's possible economic and security consequences for neighboring non-member states in the region, particularly the United States, as well as other key actors such as China, Russia, and Iran. The volume analyzes the origins, ideological orientation, structure, internal dynamics, and evolution of the ALBA initiative and its regional and international implications during its first decade of existence. It is the first comprehensive work on the subject with a multi-disciplinary perspective and it provides an analysis of the new regional, Bolivarian Alliance initiative in Latin America and its relation to the international system. The volume includes studies on the Bolivarian Alliance and Chavismo under Hugo Chávez Frías' leadership. As a whole, this volume weaves together such crucial issues as oil politics, drug-trafficking, hemispheric security, and trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216308294
• Artikelnr.: 74844905

Autorenporträt

Bruce M. Bagley is professor of international studies at the University of Miami. Magdalena Defort is a scholar and researcher of international studies at the University of Miami.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Guide to ALBA: What is the Bolivarian Alternative to the
Americas and What Does It Do? Joel D. Hirst and Chistopher Sabatini
Chapter 2: New Philosophy and Socialism of the 21st Century John W. Murphy
Chapter 3: Chávez and ALBA David Adams and Phil Gunson
Chapter 4: Political And Ideological Aspects Of The Alianza Bolivariana
Para Los Pueblos De Nuestra América - Tratado De Comercio De Los Pueblos
(ALBA - TCP): Viability and Sustainability?
Chapter 5: ALBA: Ideology overcomes integration? Josette Altmann Borbón
Chapter 6: Neo-Bolivarian Challenges: Cuba and Venezuela and Their Foreign
Policies Magdalena Defort
Chapter 7: Morales' Bolivia and ALBA Marten W. Brienen
Chapter 8: ALBA and Petro-Caribe: Successes and a Paradoxical Failure of
Venezuelan Soft Power in the Caribbean Anthony P. Maingot
Chapter 9: ALBA and Central America: Nicaraguan Integration and
Sub-Regional Mistrust Cristina Eguizábal
Chapter 10: The Post- Washington Consensus Regional Integration in South
America Convergence and Divergence in ALBA and UNASUR: A Comparative
Perspective Khatchik DerGhougassian
Chapter 11: Military Geometry of ALBA: Venezuela's Armed Forces, Terrorism,
and Revolutionary Islam Magdalena Defort
Chapter 12: UNASUR: Constructing the South American Identity Marcela Ganem
Chapter 13: The South American Defense Council vis a vis ALBA: Dilemmas and
Contradictions of the New Security Diplomacy Raúl Benítez Manaut and Rut
Diamint
Chapter 14: ALBA and Economic Regionalization in Latin America Roberto
Domínguez
Chapter 15: ALBA-TCP: A Viable and Sustainable Alternative? Marcela
Anzola-Gil
Chapter 16: The Bolivarian Alliance and the United States of America -
Incompatible Ideas Joel D. Hirst
Chapter 17: Russia and ALBA: A Marriage of Convenience Vladimir Rouvinski
Chapter 18: Europe and the New Latin America. Spanish Perception of New
Trends in South American Security and Integration: Focus on ALBA Joaquín
Roy
Chapter 19: Chinese Engagement with the ALBA Countries: A Relationship of
Mutual Convenience? R. Evan Ellis