Decline of the U.S. hegemony? : : a challenge of ALBA and a new Latin American integration of the twenty-first century / / edited by Bruce M. Bagley and Magdalena Defort.

• Superior document: Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century
• TeilnehmendeR: Bagley, Bruce Michael,; Defort, Magdalena,
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (461 pages)

Table of Contents

A guide to ALBA : what is the Bolivarian alternative to the Americas and what does it do? / Joel D. Hirst and Chistopher Sabatini -- New philosophy and socialism of the 21st century / John W. Murphy -- Chavez and ALBA / David Adams and Phil Gunson -- Political and ideological aspects of the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra America-Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (ALBA - TCP) : viability and sustainability? -- ALBA : ideology overcomes integration? / Josette Altmann Borbon -- Neo-Bolivarian challenges : Cuba and Venezuela and their foreign policies / Magdalena Defort -- Morales' Bolivia and ALBA / Marten W. Brienen -- ALBA and Petro-Caribe : successes and a paradoxical failure of Venezuelan soft power in the Caribbean / Anthony P. Maingot -- ALBA and Central America : Nicaraguan integration and sub-regional mistrust / Cristina Eguizabal -- The post- Washington consensus regional integration in South America convergence and divergence in ALBA and UNASUR : a comparative perspective / Khatchik DerGhougassian -- Military geometry of ALBA : Venezuela's armed forces, terrorism, and revolutionary Islam / Magdalena Defort -- UNASUR : constructing the South American identity / Marcela Ganem -- The South American Defense Council vis a vis ALBA : dilemmas and contradictions of the new security diplomacy / Raul Benitez Manaut and Rut Diamint -- ALBA and economic regionalization in Latin America / Roberto Dominguez -- ALBA-TCP : a viable and sustainable alternative? / Marcela Anzola-Gil -- The Bolivarian alliance and the United States of America : incompatible ideas / Joel D. Hirst -- Russia and ALBA : a marriage of convenience / Vladimir Rouvinski -- Europe and the new Latin America : Spanish perception of new trends in South American security and integration : focus on ALBA / Joaquin Roy -- Chinese engagement with the ALBA countries : a relationship of mutual convenience? / R. Evan Ellis.