Understanding ALBA : progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Asa K. Cusack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies, issuing body.

Cusack, Asa K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Latin America.

Globalization.

Latin America.

Globalization--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América--Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos.

Latin America--Economic integration.

Caribbean, English-speaking--Economic integration.

Caribbean, English-speaking.

Physical Description:

xiv, 234 pages : charts ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, [2018]

Summary:

This edited collection is only the second academic publication dedicated solely to Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the "Left Turn" regional project founded by Venezuela and Cuba in 2004 and since expanded to Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and much of the Anglophone Caribbean. As ALBA celebrates its first decade, this book offers a considered, critical, and comprehensive account of the project. This work provides insights into all manner of unanswered questions: among others, the roles and involvement of member-states both central and peripheral; the nature of ALBA governance; the sustainability of the project; its effect on domestic politics; and the true nature and extent of specific initiatives. Bringing together scholars from across ideological divides, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of ALBA's successes and failures, evaluating the project's viability and mapping possible future trajectories. The opacity of ALBA and its member-states, and the perplexing lack of research into ALBA despite its significance, makes the contribution of this edited volume a particularly valuable one.

Contents:

Tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on contributors. Introduction: ALBA from dawn to dusk? / Asa K. Cusack. Part 1 Self-awareness and critique: an overview of ALBA research / Christopher David Absell

ALBA and the fourth wave of regionalism in Latin America / Olivier Dabène. Part 2 A very Latin American social policy: ALBA, counter-hegemonic regionalism, and "living well" / Kepa Artaraz

The first five years of the SUCRE: successes and limitations of ALBA"s regional virtual currency / Stephanie Pearce. Part 3 ALBA in Nicaragua: political, economic and development implications / Gloria Carrión

Pragmatism left, right, and centre? Revisiting ALBA accession in the Eastern Caribbean / Asa K. Cusack. Part 4 Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system / Helen Yaffe

From magical state to magical region? Ecology, labour and socialism in ALBA / Rowan Lubbock

Venezuela in crisis: how sustainable is its support for ALBA? / José Manuel Puente. Part 5 Progress, problems, and prospects of ALBA's alternative regionalism / Asa K. Cusack. Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781908857224

1908857226

OCLC:

1022604550

Publisher Number:

99977894446