TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spalding,Rose J.
TI  - Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance 
SN  - 9780292754614
AV  - HF1782 .S63 2013eb
U1  - 382/.91728 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Free trade
KW  - Central America
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acronyms and Initialisms --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction, Overview, and Methods --; Chapter 1 The March to Market Reform in Central America --; Chapter 2 Rule Makers and Rule Takers: Negotiating CAFTA --; Chapter 3 Resistance: Competing Voices --; Chapter 4 Ratification Politics: In the Chamber and in the Street --; Chapter 5 After CAFTA: Anti-Mining Movements, Investment Disputes, and New Organizational Territory --; Chapter 6 Electoral Challenges and Transitions --; Chapter 7 Post-Neoliberalism and Alternative Approaches to Change --; Appendix A Note on Interview Methodology --; Appendix B Presidential Election Results: Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, 1978–2011 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length study of the debate over CAFTA, tracing the agreement’s drafting, its passage, and its aftermath across Central America. Rose J. Spalding draws on nearly two hundred interviews with representatives from government, business, civil society, and social movements to analyze the relationship between the advance of free market reform in Central America and the parallel rise of resistance movements. She views this dynamic through the lens of Karl Polanyi’s “double movement” theory, which posits that significant shifts toward market economics will trigger oppositional, self-protective social countermovements. Examining the negotiations, political dynamics, and agents involved in the passage of CAFTA in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, Spalding argues that CAFTA served as a high-profile symbol against which Central American oppositions could rally. Ultimately, she writes, post-neoliberal reform “involves not just the design of appropriate policy mixes and sequences, but also the hard work of building sustainable and inclusive political coalitions, ones that prioritize the quality of social bonds over raw economic freedom.”
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/754591
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292754614
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292754614/original
ER  -