Western Hemisphere
In this timely volume, Brainard and Martinez-Diaz concede that the Brazilian state's past fostering of national enterprises laid the foundation for the success of the country's global firms today -- in petrochemicals, aerospace, biofuels, and export-oriented agriculture.
Through exhaustive field research and interviews, Ellis inventories, country by country, China's rapidly expanding commercial and diplomatic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Strauss brings international law to life with this technical yet accessible exploration of the U.S. naval station in southern Cuba.
Wells, the son of a Sosúa settler and a historian at Bowdoin College, captures with admirable clarity the historical ironies and personal dramas at this intersection of European tragedy, U.S. diplomacy, and Caribbean caudillos
As this smart compendium of current case studies reveals, experiments aimed at overcoming the ideological divide between state and market can come from many different sources: public agencies, state-owned firms, multinational corporations, local nongovernmental organizations, or international donors.
