The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

• Main Author: Kaltmeier, Olaf
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge handbooks
• Subjects: American History; American Political Development; American Studies; Americas; Amerika; Culture & Development; Economic History; Economics and Development; Economics, Finance and Accounting; Entwicklung; Environment & the Global South; Environmental Change & Pollution; Environmental Issues; Environmental Politics; Environmental Studies; geopolitical imaginaries; Geopolitik; Gesellschaft; Globalization; Governance-Ansatz; Human Geography; inequalities; Integration; Inter-American; inter-American entanglements; Interdependence; interlinked economic developments; Internationale Beziehungen; Latin America; Latin America > Economic conditions > 21st century; Latin America > Economic policy; Latin America > Politics and government > 21st century; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Latin American History; Latino Politics; North America; political interventions; Politics & Development; Politischer Wandel; Politisches System; Regional Development; South America; Southern Politics; Sozialer Wandel; Sustainable Development; Transnational; Wirtschaftsordnung; Government Printing Office; Vice Versa; State Market Society Relations; International Climate Change Governance; Civil Society; Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem; National Ethnos; Critical Geopolitics; Colonial Administration; Latin American Revolutionary Movements; Energy Sources; Global Commodity Chains; North American Free Trade Agreement; Latin American Civil Society; Medieval Occidental City; OAS Member State; Buen Vivir; GVC Approach; Belo Monte; Counter Insurgency; Social Cross-border Interactions; CIA Intervention; United States Government Printing Office; Partido Dos Trabalhadores; Energy Resources
• ISBN: 0815352689; 9780815352686; 9781032400822; 103240082X; 9781503605909; 1503605906
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351138444

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.