Latin American unification
Subtitle: a history of political and economic integration efforts
By: Salvador Rivera
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780786476251
Subjects: Politics and government; Confederation of states; Economic conditions; Economic integration; History
Description: "This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. The author argues that the political unification of Latin America has been stymied by the political class, but that this trend is currently being reversed. The Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) is presently accomplishing this task"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Impediments to political union in Latin America; title: Revolution, independence and early initiatives for political union; title: The first diplomatic effort : the Panama Congress; title: Transfer to Tacubaya and the defeat of the Treaty of Confederation; title: Other state-directed initiatives in the nineteenth century; title: Idealists take the initiative; title: Intellectual and political partisans of the twentieth century; title: 1948/1960 : the age of the ECLA and the technocrats; title: The age of LAFTA; title: The United States and Latin American integration; title: MERCOSUR.