A history of the FTAA
Subtitle: from hegemony to fragmentation in the Americas
By: Marcel Nelson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781137412768
Subjects: History; Neoliberalism; Foreign relations; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; Free Trade Area of the Americas (Organization)
Description: "The book explores how the collapse of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations in 2005 was rooted in a "crisis of authority" with respect to the leadership of the United States in the Americas. This "crisis of authority" was prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s. Marcel Nelson demonstrates how the FTAA became the focal point of this opposition from a growing chorus of leftist heads of state in Latin America to the detriment of the negotiations. A neo-Gramscian theoretical framework will be used to frame the manner in which the "crisis of authority" came to the fore in the states of the Americas and in the institutional structure established to negotiate the FTAA. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Gramsci, Hegemony, and Global Governance; title: 2. The FTAA Negotiations: Context and History; title: 3. The FTAA Negotiations: Context and History; title: 4. Venezuela and the Evolution of the FTAA; title: 5. Brazil and the FTAA Negotiations.