Latin America in the 21st Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix (review)
Although it contains only 100 pages of text, this book covers a surprising amount of ground in its analysis of contemporary Latin American political life in the context of economic globalization. It constitutes the product of a decade of discussion among its five authors: three political scientists (Marcelo Cavarozzi of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires; Peter Cleaves from the Swiss foundation AVINA; and Jonathan Hartlyn of the University of North Carplina at Chapel Hill) and two sociologists (Manuel Antonio Garreton from the Universidad de Chile; and Gary Gereffi of Duke University). Its six chapters exhibit an unusually consistent focus for a work that resulted from so many pairs of hands at the keyboard.