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Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization

Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization

by WilliamRobinson (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $33.67
Synopsis

In this timely and provocative study, William I. Robinson challenges received wisdom on Central America. He starts wit h an exposition on the new global capitalism. Then, drawing on a wide range of historical documentation, interviews, and social science research, he proceeds to show how capitalist globalization has thoroughly transformed the region, disrupting the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars, and pacification, and ushering in instead a new transnational model of economy and society. Beyond his focus on Central America, Robinson provides a critical framework for understanding development and social change in other regions of the world in the age of globalization. Demonstrating how the very forces of capitalism have brought into being new social agents and political actors unlikely to acquiesce in the face of the emerging order, Transnational Conflicts shows why the Isthmus, along with other regions, is likely to return to the headlines in the near future.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 08 Aug 2003
ISBN 10: 1859844391
ISBN 13: 9781859844397

Media Reviews
This book operates at multiple levels. It is a detailed and original contribution to the study of Central America. And by positioning Central America in a broader historical and structural framing, Robinson also makes a major contribution to our understanding of global capitalism. Through it all, the narrative never loses track of the human actors involved. Complex and brilliant! -- Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, and author of Guests and Aliens Since independence, Central America has been caught between competing external influences. Now globalization is sucking the region into its web in a dramatic way. William I Robinson, in this ambitious book, analyses these trends in great detail while offering the reader a bold and distinctive interpretation of globalization. The result is a fine piece of scholarship that deserves careful study. -- Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Author Bio
William I. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Global Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of numerous books and articles on globalization, international affairs, development Latin America, and social theory, including the award winning Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony