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Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from Latin America, the US and Europe and taking into consideration the recent global financial crisis,the book offers a multifaceted insight into the expectations as well as the possible threats related to Latin America´s incorporation into the sphere of global interconnectedness.

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Latin America´s Political and Economic Responses to the Process of Globalization; R.Bernal-Meza & S.Fryba Christensen Energy Policy and 21st Century Globalization: The Responses of Brazil and Venezuela, and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Development in the Americas; E.Brand & M.Schewel Remittances and Social Development: The Latin American Experience; M.Orozco Globalization and the Formation of the Political Left in Latin America; M.Nilsson Global discourses, Local Meanings; Indigenous and Nationalistic Responses to Neoliberal Globalization in Bolivia; A.Jeppesen Between God and the State: Globalization and Human Insecurity in Latin America; A.Pérez-Baltodano Unintended Exports: The Globalization of the Mara Salvatrucha; T.Stiles Globalization, Transition, and Insecurity in Mexico; P.Olney New Patterns of Violence in Latin America; D.Kruijt Latin American and European Relations in an Age of Uncertainty and Opportunity; G.Edwards & E.Mendizabal China and Latin America: What Sort of Future?; W.Ratliff South-South Relations in Brazil´s Response to the Challenges of Globalization; S.Christensen Conclusions: Latin America and Globalization - Challenges, Responses and Perspectives in the 21st Century; J.Gustafsson & M.Nilsson

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ANDRÉS PÉREZ BALTODANO Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada RAUL BERNAL-MEZA Professor of International Relations at National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina ERIK BRAND publishes the daily Latin America Advisor at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, USA STEEN FRYBA CHRISTENSEN Associate Professor at �lborg University, Denmark GUY EDWARDS Research Fellow in the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA ANNE MARIE EJDESGAARD JEPPESEN Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Latin American Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark DIRK KRUIJT Honorary Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands ENRIQUE MENDIZABAL Research Fellow and Program Leader of the Research and Policy in Development and Chair of the Latin America and the Caribbean Group at the Overseas Development Institute, UK PATRICIA OLNEY Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University, USA MANUEL OROZCO Senior Associate and Director of Remittances and Development at the Inter?American Dialogue, Washington DC, USA WILLIAM RATLIFF Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, USA MATTHEW SCHEWELJournalist with the Latin America Advisor newsletters at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC, USA THOMAS SHANNON STILES Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University Scott Air Force Base, USA.

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