Book Reviews
Democratic Dividends: Globalization, Liberation, and Economic Revolution in Brazil
Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985 Albert Fishlow (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011), 236 pages. In Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985, Albert Fishlow examines the forces behind Brazil’s...
A Tale of Two Continents
Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering Hal Weitzman (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012), 260 pages. Latin Lessons: How South America...
Reforming, Fast and Slow
After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 261 pages. On the morning after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was...
Green Carbon, Black Trade: Finding Comprehensive Solutions for an Intersectoral Problem
It has become a truism to describe transnational problems as interconnected. However, a recent joint report “Green Carbon, Black Trade: Illegal Logging, Tax Fraud and Laundering in the World...
Cartel Corridor: The Move to Central America
Countering Criminal Violence in Central Michael Shifter (Council Special Report No. 64, Council on Foreign Relations, New York: 2012), 59 pages. In August 2012 a member of Los Zetas cartel, one of...
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade Andrew Feinstein (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 672 pages. In Shadow World, a book on the global arms trade, author Andrew Feinstein...