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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSpalding, Rose J.
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245 1 0 _aContesting Trade in Central America :
_bMarket Reform and Resistance /
_cRose J. Spalding.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (350 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcronyms and Initialisms --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction, Overview, and Methods --
_tChapter 1 The March to Market Reform in Central America --
_tChapter 2 Rule Makers and Rule Takers: Negotiating CAFTA --
_tChapter 3 Resistance: Competing Voices --
_tChapter 4 Ratification Politics: In the Chamber and in the Street --
_tChapter 5 After CAFTA: Anti-Mining Movements, Investment Disputes, and New Organizational Territory --
_tChapter 6 Electoral Challenges and Transitions --
_tChapter 7 Post-Neoliberalism and Alternative Approaches to Change --
_tAppendix A Note on Interview Methodology --
_tAppendix B Presidential Election Results: Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, 1978–2011 --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.”
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aFree trade
_zCentral America.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/754591
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