Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system

Yaffe, H. (2018) Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system. In: Cusak, A. K. (ed.) Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Institute of Latin American Studies: London. ISBN 9781908857224

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Abstract

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. The volume’s comprehensive coverage incorporates insights from the domestic level in Nicaragua, the Anglophone Caribbean, and especially Venezuela, while also exploring ALBA’s key regional economic and social-policy initiatives and its place in the wider international relations of Latin American and the Caribbean. Moving beyond normative debates about the project’s desirability and descriptive accounts of its initiatives, this volume provides critical analyses that consider equally ALBA’s progress, problems, and prospects. In tackling many of the key questions about the past and future of ALBA it reveals a frequently misunderstood organisation whose impacts have been significant but whose failings also jeopardise the project’s long-term sustainability. This timely volume helps us to understand the dynamics shaping the region at a time when its global relevance has never been greater.

Item Type:Book Sections
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Yaffe, Dr Helen
Authors: Yaffe, H.
Subjects:E History America > E11 America (General)
F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General)
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
J Political Science > JZ International relations
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Economic and Social History
Publisher:Institute of Latin American Studies
ISBN:9781908857224

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