The choice of dilemmas in Hungary's transition: Westernization or latin americanization?

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Erzsébet Kovács ◽  
Zoltán Kollár
Keyword(s):  
Latin Americanization

Union Actors and Socio-environmental Problems: The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Cecilia Anigstein ◽  
Gabriela Wyczykier
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Latin Americanization

The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas is analytically interesting because international trade unions have promoted the framework of a “just transition” to protect workers’ rights during the shift to sustainable energy and the response to climate change and because the confederation has undertaken something of a “Latin-Americanization” of the just-transition notion that is nurtured by the environmental/territorial turn of social struggles on the continent. The current convergence between unions and social movements (peasant, feminist, environmentalist) has contributed to an important renewal of the union movement in Latin American environmental matters. La Confederación Sindical de las Américas reviste interés analítico porque las organizaciones sindicales internacionales promovieron una “transición justa” para resituar y visibilizar a los trabajadores en las negociaciones multilaterales del clima y procesos de transición energética y porque la confederación ha emprendido una “latinoamericanización” de la noción de la “transición justa” nutrida de un giro eco-territorial de las luchas sociales en el continente. El actual proceso de convergencia entre sindicatos y movimientos sociales (campesinos, feministas, ambientalistas) ha contribuido a una importante renovación de la narrativa del movimiento sindical en materia medioambiental en América Latina.

Europeanization through Privatization and Pluralization in Hungary

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åttila Ågh
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
State Party ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Class Society ◽  
European Working ◽  
Latin Americanization ◽  
Party State

ABSTRACTAnalytically, privatization and pluralization may be treated as separate economic and political phenomena, but in the actual conditions of a post-Communist society they are integrally related to the development of a middle-class society that was absent due to ‘deprivatization’ in a one-party state. The creation of a society of plural interests and private enterprise represents a shift from Sovietization to Europeanization. However, the process is extremely difficult, for there are many paradoxes in the logic of privatization. In addition, issues of ownership – past as well as future – are major political battlefields. Political strategies of privatization include a grand coalition; a new state-party; Latin-Americanization; creating a broad entrepreneurial class and/or a European working class; and a wide coalition. These complexities are examined with particular reference to the experience of contemporary Hungary.

The Latin Americanization of China?

2004 ◽  
Vol 103 (674) ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Gilboy ◽  
Eric Heginbotham
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
American States ◽  
Social Elites ◽  
Latin Americanization ◽  
China’S Cities

Land reforms aimed at raising rural incomes and promoting urbanization could accelerate the crisis already building in China's cities. If urban legal and social reforms fail to keep pace, China could face intensifying conflict between a burgeoning class of have-nots and an entitled minority, a consolidated alliance between political leaders and business and social elites, and a host of other social and political ills familiar to many Latin American states.

Liberal Islam versus Moderate Islam

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Ali Mazrui
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Theologically Conservative ◽  
Latin Americanization

There is a tendency to equate liberal Islam with moderate Islam. Yet thereare occasions when to be liberal demands a sense of outrage and rebellion.The causes of the political radicalization of Islam are different from theroots of theological conservatism. For decades, the Royal House of SaudiArabia has been theologically conservative but not politically radical.Indeed, for a long time the monarchy in Riyadh was a classic example ofhow a Muslim regime could be politically pro-western without being culturallywesternized. Was the Saudi regime politically moderate withoutbeing doctrinally liberal?This journal debate has been rich in trying to diagnose the nature ofIslam’s radicalization, but relatively thin in diagnosing its causes. The bestdiagnosis of these causes in this collection comes from Graham E. Fuller:The Muslim world, feeling itself under siege, and with its sensitivitiesheightened by its witness of the struggle of Muslims right across the globalummah, is not currently operating in an environment conducive toeither intellectual openness or to liberal and reformist thought. TheMuslim world is simply hunkered down in a defensive and survivalistmode. Indeed, the forces of terrorism in the Muslim world must bebrought to heel. But this will not happen unless we see a change in hegemonisticAmerican policies, the explicit American embrace of Israeliright-wing policies in the occupied West Bank, and the linkage withAmerican fundamentalist Christian attitudes.I have never heard the problem better formulated. Indeed, there areglobal causes of Islamic radicalism and global reasons why “Muslim terrorism”has gone international. One factor is the “Latin Americanization” ...

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