Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Erschienen am 27. Juni 2012
512 Seiten
978-0-307-82299-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere?
This perceptive and richly eventful study by one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists tells the story behind the failed movements of the past thirty years while suggesting that the left has a continuing relevance in a continent that suffers from destitution and social inequality. Combining insider's accounts of intrigue and armed struggle with a clear-sighted analysis of the mechanisms of day-to-day power, Utopia Unarmed is an indispensable work of scholarship, reportage, and political prognosis.
This perceptive and richly eventful study by one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists tells the story behind the failed movements of the past thirty years while suggesting that the left has a continuing relevance in a continent that suffers from destitution and social inequality. Combining insider's accounts of intrigue and armed struggle with a clear-sighted analysis of the mechanisms of day-to-day power, Utopia Unarmed is an indispensable work of scholarship, reportage, and political prognosis.
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Jorge G. Castañeda is the global distinguished professor of politics and Latin American studies at New York University. He was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003. Castañeda has been a professor of political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He received his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from the University of Paris. He is a member of the board of Human Rights Watch and lives in New York and Mexico City. Castañeda is the author of Mañana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans, Ex Mex., Somos Muchos: Ideas para el Mañana and many more.
Inhalt
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Travels with Argentina: Defining the Latin American Left
- 2 In the Beginning: Communists and Populists
- 3 The Cuban Crucible
- 4 The Second Coming
- 5 Squaring the Circle: Reforming Revolution
- 6 Changing of the Guard: From Intellectuals to the Grass Roots
- 7 The Grass Roots Explosion
- 8 La Guerre Est Finie: The Latin American Left and the Fall of Socialism
- 9 Nation-building and the Origins of the Left's Nationalism
- 10 Reformulating Nationalism: Longitudinally and Regionally
- 11 The Democratic Imperative
- 12 Democratizing Democracy
- 13 A Latin American Dilemma
- 14 A Grand Bargain for the Millennium
