The Rule of Law, Development and Democracy in Latin America : Theory and Experience Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead -- Extending legal security in the Peruvian mining sector : the formalisation of informal miners / John Crabtree, Anna Wilson, and Aarón Quiñón Cárdenas --...

"Trade agreements have uncontested relevance as essential instruments governing international trade, yet little attention has been directed towards explaining differences in their content. Deep Integration in Latin American Trade Agreements analyzes the structure, nature, and characteristics of...

Introduction -- The context: the challenge of boosting competitiveness -- The story: institutions, actors and port reform legislation -- The theory: institutional change and business lobbying -- Full steam ahead - spurs to port reform legislation -- A perilous journey - institutions and actors...

Acknowledgements -- Making sense of trade : arguments and politics -- The contours of trade politics -- Unravelling trade politics : a cross-negotiation perspective -- Latin America in a complex web of trade negotiations -- Trade politics in Latin America : institutional legacies and political...

1. Bringing politics back in -- 2. The strategic universe and Brazilian state autonomy : the context of the Brazilian informatics policy -- 3. The trajectory of Brazilian state autonomy I : COBRA and CAPRE in the military dictatorship, 1971-1979 -- 4. The trajectory of Brazilian state autonomy...

"In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions pertaining to the nature of Latin America's political culture and institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of its most intense and successful...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The United Nations and Development -- chapter 3 Poverty in the Americas -- chapter 4 Meeting Basic Human Needs -- chapter 5 Women in the Americas -- chapter 6 Promoting Gender Equity -- chapter 7 Ecology of the Americas -- chapter 8 Preserving Natural...