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Zusatztext This book is an outstanding statement! at the cutting edge of debates! on hegemony and resistance in Latin American and international studies that makes a number of innovative and original developments! not least in coining the term New Latin Left to grapple with geopolitical issues in Latin America and in focusing on the "reconstitution" of hegemony in the Americas. - Adam David Morton! University of Sydney Though an early-2000s wave of elected leftist leaders challenged U.S. preeminence in Latin America! Rubrick Biegon explains! this preeminence-or "hegemony"-proved stable. This sweeping survey views 21st century U.S.-Latin American relations through lenses of trade! security policy! bilateral and multilateral diplomacy! and analysis of U.S. discourse! backing it up with innumerable examples from U.S. officials' own words. Employing a thoughtfully constructed and richly layered theoretical framework! this book gives us important new tools with which to make sense of recent developments in hemispheric affairs. - Adam Isacson! Senior Associate for Defense Oversight! Washington Office on Latin America Informationen zum Autor Rubrick Biegon is an Associate Lecturer in International Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. Prior to coming to Kent, he worked as a policy analyst with a small international consulting firm based in Washington, where his reporting focused on political and economic developments in Latin America and US policy towards the region. Klappentext This book offers an original and detailed analysis of contemporary US-Latin American relations Zusammenfassung This book offers an original and detailed analysis of contemporary US-Latin American relations Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: Latin America’s new left and the challenge to US hegemony. Chapter 2: The powers of hegemony: a framework for analysis. Chapter 3: Reviving neoliberalism: US trade policy after the Washington Consensus. Chapter 4: Redirecting force: US coercive power and the New Latin Left. Chapter 5: Reforming institutional power: the OAS in the new regional landscape. Chapter 6: Reinscribing 'populism': US ideological power and the ‘radical’ left. Chapter 7: Conclusion ...
