Book, "Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean." Edited By Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef

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Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean – New Edition 
EDITED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS AND JORGE NEF

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. 
For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. 
For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. 
For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Book, "Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean." Edited By Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef

::::::Book Review::::::

Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean – New Edition 
EDITED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS AND JORGE NEF

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their relations with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole.

Book, "Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean." Edited By Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef

::::::Book Review::::::

Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean – New Edition 
EDITED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS AND JORGE NEF

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. 
For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. 
For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. 
For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Abstract, China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: A Peaceful Panda Bear instead of a Roaring Dragon by Richard L. Harris

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Abstract:  China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: A Peaceful Panda Bear instead of a Roaring Dragon 

by Richard L. Harris

The Western academic literature and media coverage of the increasing economic and political relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) and the Latin American and Caribbean countries contains biases, fears, and misinformation about those relations. Closer examination reveals that Chinese trade, investment and loans have supported the left-leaning governments in the region that are attempting to develop alternative postcapitalist societies. China’s leaders seek allies among the developing countries to join with them in creating a new multipolar and more equitable global order. The PRC has launched a new economic strategy that makes consumer demand the main engine of China’s economic development. It seeks to boost productivity, reduce the country’s growing income disparities, and pursue an environmentally sustainable path of economic development based on advanced high-value and clean manufacturing technologies and renewable sources of clean energy. The PRC’s goal of developing a new ecological civilization will provide opportunities for the Latin American and Caribbean economies to export a more diversified basket of goods to China and attract Chinese investments and loans into new areas such as renewable energy.

Abstract, Understanding China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: Research Notes by Richard L. Harris

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Abstract, Understanding China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries:  Research Notes 

by Richard L. Harris

Since the formation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, its political leaders have been concerned with securing the country’s sovereignty, national unification, and territorial integrity as well as creating an international environment favorable to its peaceful development as a socialist society and to the development of a new multipolar world order based on peace and international cooperation rather than hegemony, extreme inequality, and war. In pursuit of these strategic goals, the PRC’s political leaders seek to foster long-term economic and political cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Abstract, Rejoinder by Richard L. Harris

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Abstract, Rejoinder 

by Richard L. Harris

Rhys Jenkins says I present a “rosy” view of China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, and he contends I made “surprisingly few references” to the academic literature on these relations. I find this comment to be rather hypocritical, since his publications ignore the Chinese literature on this subject. Like most Western scholars, Jenkins is dismissive of what the Chinese have to say. I have lived, taught, and carried out research in the People’s Republic of China. It is hard for me to understand how the Chinese view of China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean can be ignored by most Western scholars and the media. My article exposes and criticizes these kinds of biases in the current Western production of knowledge on China–Latin American and Caribbean relations. It is not meant to be a thorough review of the academic literature on this subject.

Abstract, Commentary by Rhys Jenkins

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Abstract:  Commentary 

by Rhys Jenkins

Richard L. Harris claims to show that the Western academic literature and media coverage of relations between Latin America and China “is characterized by factual distortions, errors, facts taken out of context, important omissions, and the use of derogatory images and terminology” and “has all the characteristics of a planned smear campaign—slander, falsification, and vilification.” He presents an alternative picture in which China has been economically beneficial for the region and politically progressive in supporting left-leaning governments in their attempts to develop alternative postcapitalist societies.

Abstract, China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: A Peaceful Panda Bear instead of a Roaring Dragon by Richard L. Harris

:::::: Abstract ::::::

Abstract:  China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: A Peaceful Panda Bear instead of a Roaring Dragon 

by Richard L. Harris

The Western academic literature and media coverage of the increasing economic and political relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) and the Latin American and Caribbean countries contains biases, fears, and misinformation about those relations. Closer examination reveals that Chinese trade, investment and loans have supported the left-leaning governments in the region that are attempting to develop alternative postcapitalist societies. China’s leaders seek allies among the developing countries to join with them in creating a new multipolar and more equitable global order. The PRC has launched a new economic strategy that makes consumer demand the main engine of China’s economic development. It seeks to boost productivity, reduce the country’s growing income disparities, and pursue an environmentally sustainable path of economic development based on advanced high-value and clean manufacturing technologies and renewable sources of clean energy. The PRC’s goal of developing a new ecological civilization will provide opportunities for the Latin American and Caribbean economies to export a more diversified basket of goods to China and attract Chinese investments and loans into new areas such as renewable energy.

Abstract, Understanding China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries: Research Notes by Richard L. Harris

:::::: Abstract ::::::

Abstract:  Understanding China’s Relations with the Latin American and Caribbean Countries:  Research Notes 

by Richard L. Harris

Since the formation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, its political leaders have been concerned with securing the country’s sovereignty, national unification, and territorial integrity as well as creating an international environment favorable to its peaceful development as a socialist society and to the development of a new multipolar world order based on peace and international cooperation rather than hegemony, extreme inequality, and war. In pursuit of these strategic goals, the PRC’s political leaders seek to foster long-term economic and political cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Book, "Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean." Edited By Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef

::::::Book Review::::::

Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean – New Edition 
EDITED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS AND JORGE NEF

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. 
For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. 
For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. 
For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.