Leftovers
Tales of the Latin American Left
Price: $130.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-95670-3
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 7th July 2008
- Pages: 280
About the Book
Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left’s fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism, but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous resurgence throughout the region. However, the left is not unified, and as Castañeda, Morales, and their contributors show, it has followed two distinct paths – a more cosmopolitan style leftism, exemplified by Brazil and Chile, and a left fuelled by populist nationalism that has clear debts to Perón or Cárdenas, and is most evident in Venezuela, Mexico’s PRD, Bolivia, and Argentina. Leftovers comprehensively updates this very important story, with country and area specialists contributing.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Revisting the Utopia 1. The Current State of the Utopia Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales 2. Have Latin Americans Turned Left? Marco A. Morales Part 2: What Has the Left Done Right (or Wrong)? 3. Ecumenism and Diversity: A Tale of Economic and Trade Policies of the New Left Diana Tussie and Pablo Heidrich 4. Social Policy José Merino 5. Nationalism Jorge G. Castañeda, Marco A. Morales and Patricio Navia Part 3: Case Studies 6. The New and the Old in Brazil’s PT Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Sofia Checa 7. The Successful Chilean Left: Neo-Liberal and Socialist Patricio Navia 8. Uruguay, a Role Model for the Left? David Altman, Juan Pablo Luna and Rosana Castiglioni 9. Venezuela: The Left Turning Further Left? Raul Sánchez-Urribarri 10. The Left in Peru: Wagons that Lack an Engine Martin Tanaka 11. The Evolution of the Mexican Left Kathleen Bruhn Part 4: Prognosis 12. Where Do We Go Now? Jorge G. Castañeda
About the Author(s)
Jorge G. Castañeda, Mexico’s Foreign Minister from 2000-2003, is Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.
Marco A. Morales is a doctoral student in political science at New York University.