Contesting Trade in Central America : : Market Reform and Resistance / / Rose J. Spalding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Spalding, Rose J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

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 resi...

Table of Contents

• 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