Social Change, Foreign Economic Relations - General & miscellaneous, Globalization, Structural Adjustment, Economic Conditions in Latin America, General & Miscellaneous Central American History, Latin America - Diplomatic Relations - General & Miscellaneo

Transnational Conflicts

Name: Transnational Conflicts
Author: William Robinson
ISBN: 9781859845479

by William Robinson

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Overview

In this timely and provocative study, William I. Robinson challenges received wisdom on Central America. He starts with an exposition on the new global capitalism. Then, drawing on a wide range of historical documentation, interviews, and social science research, he proceeds to show how capitalist globalization has thoroughly transformed the region, disrupting the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars, and pacification, and ushering in instead a new transnational model of economy and society.

Beyond his focus on Central America, Robinson provides a critical framework for understanding development and social change in other regions of the world in the age of globalization. Demonstrating how the very forces of capitalism have brought into being new social agents and political actors unlikely to acquiesce in the face of the emerging order, Transnational Conflicts shows why the Isthmus, along with other regions, is likely to return to the headlines in the near future.

About the Author, William Robinson

William Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including David and Goliath: The US War Against Nicaragua and A Theory of Global Capitalism.