Rodrigo Momberg and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), The Future of Contract Law in Latin America. The Principles of Latin American Contract Law (Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing, 2017, 320 pages. ISBN 978-1-50991-427-2. GBP 85).

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Francisco de Elizalde
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
The Future

New World Economic Development Trends and Latin America

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
L. Klochkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Economic

There are substantial changes in the evolution of world economy and world economic relations. The growth rates of international trade have diminished two-fold, the prices for oil and other commodities have fallen, and the competition on world markets has sharpened greatly. These new trends complicate fundamentally external conditions for the economic development of peripheral regions, especially Latin America. Latin American countries have reached a phase of considerable economic deceleration. Under these circumstances, there is an urgent need for reconsideration of key conclusions made by some Russian experts on the possibilities of the future economic and social growth of Latin America. The author examines the most discussed aspects of the Latin American modern economic situation – the deepening technological gap and slow rates of technological progress, the limited role of internal economic motive forces, the conservation of foreign economic dependence. The future of Latin America’s economic development is uncertain in many respects and will depend greatly on foreign economic conditions. The new world balance opened important additional possibilities for Latin America on world markets. China has converted into the second largest economic partner of the region. But there is a number of complicated problems in their relations that need an urgent regulation. At the same time, the strategic task for Latin America consists in finding of effective ways for further broadening of economic relations with the United States in terms of equality and mutual benefit.

Latin America, a Continent in Movement but Where To? A Review of Social Movements' Studies in the Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Inclán
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
The Future ◽  
Empirical Implications

This article offers a review of the most salient studies on Latin American social movements published in the last 25 years. It not only assesses the questions and empirical implications that these studies have uncovered, but it also points out theoretical and empirical puzzles that are currently investigated or are yet to be examined. In doing so, this article reviews two type of studies: those that in the author's opinion cover the most salient movements in the region and those that offer us most promising propositions for the development of the subfield in the future. With this review, the author hopes to open the debate and help include Latin American social movements within the systematic study of comparative social mobilization in sociology and comparative politics.

scholarly journals Die hegemoniale Krise und die Krise der Linken in Lateinamerika

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (141) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Emir Sader
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Step Down ◽  
To Come ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
American Left

Since the economic crises of 1994 in Mexico, 1999 in Brazil, and 2001 in Argentina, the neoliberal model has been loosing its legitimacy all over Latin America. Being confronted with massive popular protests, more than ten governments have had to step down in the last couple of years. But so far, the Latin American left has not been able to come up with an alternative project, which could effectively challenge the neoliberal hegemony. In fact, the recently elected left governments of Lula in Brazil and Tabaré Vazquez in Uruguay continue their predecessors' politics of fiscal adjustment. The article discusses the origins, strengths, and weaknesses of neoliberal hegemony in Latin America, and the future perspectives for a strong antineoliberal movement.

scholarly journals Communitarian Feminism in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Luis Martínez Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Indigenous Movements ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and its possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the common? In his reply, Luis Martinez Andrade situates his answer in the Latin American context by drawing our attention to the contemporary struggles of communitarian feminists and indigenous movements.

United States-Latin American Relations: Shifts in Economic Power and Implications for the Future

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Bitar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Future

The purpose of this article is to analyze the evolution of economic relations between Latin America and the United States in the 1970s and to suggest the implications of this evolution. The central proposition is that a shift in relative strength took place during this period that created the potential for achieving a new balance of economic power. This shift also created tension in the old pattern of inter-American security links. The process of transforming potential power into real power had relevant implications for economic, political, and security interests.

Ten Years of Change in the Church: Puebla and the Future

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Alexander Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Authority ◽  
The Church

The Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops in early 1979 capped a decade of far-reaching and surprising change in the Catholic Church. A new, local-level unit—the “ecclesial base community” or CEB—has given Catholicism a vitality in society it has not known for centuries. At the same time, the Church has achieved an unprecedented integration as an institution nationally and regionally, in Latin America as a whole. It has found itself, through an unexpected historical dynamic, increasingly committed to the cause of the poor in deed as well as word, And it has been thrust into political confrontations with state authority throughout the region with an intensity and scope unmatched since the nineteenth century.

A Brave New World: Debt, Default and Democracy in Latin America

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
F. Joseph Demetrius ◽  
Edward J. Tregurtha ◽  
Scott B. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Foreign Debt ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Debt Relief ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Debt Default ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Political Realities

Plunging Petroleum Prices have elevated Mexico into the position of de facto leadership of Latin American, and perhaps of other, debtor nations in their negotiations with international creditors. Once regarded as a model debtor, Mexico has emerged as forceful spokesman for debt relief. Although Mexican authorities often couch their statements concerning foreign debt repayments in conciliatory, and even contradictory, terms, the underlying fact is that Mexico's demand for some debt relief is tantamount to an unspoken repudiation of a portion of its $96 billion foreign debt. If Mexico, the world's second largest debtor, succeeds in wresting debt relief from its lenders, then it must be recognized that debtor-creditor relationships have undergone a fundamental change: political realities, not contract law, ultimately determine how debt is to be repaid, if at all. Mexico, more by circumstance than by choice, has led debtors and creditors alike into a brave new world.

scholarly journals Media education, TIC education: some reflections from Latin America

Comunicar ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Patricia Cortés-de-Cervantes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Media Education ◽  
American Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
America Latina

Nowadays young people live in two very different worlds: one which is related to school and one which is related to the streets and the day-to-day life. Then, we can speak about two ways of education: a formal education that is ruled at schools and University, and an informal education that children learn out of the school. In this paper, we will focus on this relevant problem which causes many reflections and hopes on the future of Latin American education, in both formal and non formal contexts. La expansión de las TIC en la mayor parte de las regiones del mundo y, particularmente, en América Latina nos conduce a reflexionar seriamente sobre el papel de la educación en el tercer milenio. Especialmente de una educación para los medios, de una educación para las TIC que, pese a los esfuerzos realizados, continúa estando ausente en las aulas. En el presente artículo se ponen en relieve algunos elementos que podrían tomarse en cuenta dentro de una reflexión pedagógico-comunicacional basada en la unión entre los saberes formales e informales, transdisciplinaria, valorizada y con fundamentos teóricos autónomos que partan de una visión antropológica filosófica.

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