Latin America and the Caribbean

US-Mexico Relations: Structuring Alternative Futures
Tony Payan, Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano, and Richard J. Kilroy, Jr., editors

Few would disagree that the nature of current relations between Mexico and the United States embodies both promising opportunities and reasons for alarm. The contributors to this timely book    More >

Latin American and Caribbean Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in China in the Twenty-First Century
Enrique Dussel Peters, editor

While overseas direct investment from China has been studied widely, OFDI to China has been largely ignored. Contributors to this volume pivot the conversation to examine macroeconomic and    More >

Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America
William L. Marcy

How did Mexico and Central America become a lawless corridor for conveying narcotics into the United States? How did the drug cartels rise to power, succeeding in institutionalizing the    More >

Making Police Reform Matter in Latin America
Mary Fran T. Malone, Lucía Dammert, and Orlando J. Pérez

Police forces in Latin America historically have been regarded as hopelessly corrupt, inefficient, and even abusive. More recently, however, there have been clear signs that police reforms    More >

Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis
Maxwell A. Cameron and Grace M. Jaramillo, editors

Although military coups are rare in the Andean countries, democracies remain prone to deep political crises caused by elected leaders (especially strongmen, or caudillos) who abuse their    More >

Policing and Politics in Latin America: When Law Enforcement Breaks the Law
Diego Esparza

Though police are supposed to serve and protect, they all too often rob and abuse. Why? And what can be done about it? That is the central puzzle addressed in this book. Drawing on the    More >

Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy
Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor

Brazil's democracy has repeatedly suffered major corruption scandals, despite numerous reforms designed to overcome entrenched patterns of illicit behavior. Why? What has caused    More >

Understanding Contemporary Latin America, 5th ed.
Henry (Chip) Carey, editor

This new edition of Understanding Contemporary Latin America, the first under the editorship of Henry (Chip) Carey, reflects the many changes that have occurred in the region in the decade    More >

The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean
Ken Chitwood

Winner of the Religion News Association's Award for Best Nonfiction Religion Book! The "Muslim World" is often narrowly conceived as tied to the Middle East and North    More >

Education and the Future of Latin America
Alejandro Toledo Manrique

What will it take to overcome the many challenges that Latin America faces in developing quality, inclusive education for its diverse population? That is the question at the heart of    More >

The Corruption Debates: Left vs. Right—and Does It Matter—in the Americas
Stephen D. Morris

While there is arguably universal agreement that corruption plagues countries worldwide, do we agree as well on what corruption is and how to fight it? Do the left and right on the political    More >

China’s Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Enrique Dussel Peters

Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, China has become not only the world's largest economy, but also its largest exporter, a major importer, and the second largest    More >

The Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Public Debates, Private Lives
Jane Marcus-Delgado

With Latin America home to some of the most draconian bans on abortion in the world, abortion rights is one of the most controversial and hotly contested topics in Latin American politics    More >

China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Conditions and Challenges
Enrique Dussel Peters, editor

In recent years, China's explosive outflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) globally can be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with close to 10 billion of that going each    More >

The Renegotiation of NAFTA. And China?
Enrique Dussel Peters, editor

After more than a year of negotiations, the differences between NAFTA and the new United States–Mexico–Canada agreement (USMCA) are minor—especially considering the initial    More >

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