Understanding Alba: The Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean (Institute of Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Asa Cusack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908857226 ISBN 13: 9781908857224

Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2018

Synopsis

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. The volume s comprehensive coverage incorporates insights from the domestic level in Nicaragua, the Anglophone Caribbean, and especially Venezuela, while also exploring ALBA s key regional economic and social-policy initiatives and its place in the wider international relations of Latin American and the Caribbean. Moving beyond normative debates about the project s desirability and descriptive accounts of its initiatives, this volume provides critical analyses that consider equally ALBA s progress, problems, and prospects. In tackling many of the key questions about the past and future of ALBA it reveals a frequently misunderstood organisation whose impacts have been significant but whose failings also jeopardise the project s long-term sustainability. This timely volume helps us to understand the dynamics shaping the region at a time when its global relevance has never been greater.

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About the Author

Asa Cusack's research focuses on the latest wave of regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean, often characterized as post (neo)liberal, with a specific focus on the implementation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). He has been awarded the Andrew Gamble Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis (2013-14), with nominations for PSA Lord Bryce Prize for Best Ph.D. (2014) and BISA Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize (2014). He was also awarded the Round Table Commonwealth Award for Young Scholars in July 2009. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908857226
• ISBN 13: 9781908857224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200