Varieties of Liberalism in Central America Nation-States As Works in Progress

Name: Varieties of Liberalism in Central America Nation-States As Works in Progress
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ISBN: 9780292717213

ISBN-10: 0292717210

ISBN-13: 9780292717213

Edition: 2007

Authors: Forrest D. Colburn, Arturo Cruz S.

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Why do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions are through an exploration of the evolution of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica over the last quarter of a century, a period of intriguing, often confounding, paradoxes in Central America's development. Offering an elegant defense of empiricism, Colburn and Cruz explore the roles of geography and political choice in constructing nations and states. Countries are…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.47" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396

Arturo Cruz S. teaches at INCAE, the premier graduate school of management in Latin America. Cruz has been selected by newly elected President Daniel Ortega to serve as Nicaragua's ambassador to the United States.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Enigmatic Nation-States and Conceptual Nihilism


Geography and Myth


Liberalism and Democracy


Unfettered Markets


What Went Right?


What Went Wrong?


Choices, Constraints, Idiosyncrasies, and Fortune


Photography


Note


Bibliography


About the Authors