• Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) has published Sexuality, culture and politics - a south American reader, in which South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. (sxpolitics.org)
  • This book discusses trends in women's representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries, from three different perspectives. (civilresistance.info)
  • Why do South and Latin American countries have small armies? (stackexchange.com)
  • Does any other Latin American country have a justice system in which the security forces can only be prosecuted by military courts? (stackexchange.com)
  • My textbook Understanding Latin American Politics , which was originally published by Pearson, is now available in its full form as Open Acc. (blogspot.com)
  • Latin American Perspectives 36, 1 (2009): 99-110. (blogspot.com)
  • However, after a series of democratic transitions, Latin American democracies witnessed yet another wave of populism. (ciaonet.org)
  • With the wave of democratization and the accumulation of public dissatisfaction due to a series of economic crises, some so-called neopopulists took power in a number of Latin American countries. (ciaonet.org)
  • Among many channels through which populist rule influences Latin American countries, Lee et al. (ciaonet.org)
  • 2022) dedicate one of their chapters to analyzing the impact of populist rule on the inflow of foreign direct investment, a variable of much importance in Latin American economies. (ciaonet.org)
  • Three recent figures stand out as illustrative examples: First, some aspects of Pope Francis' theology arguably contain typical elements of Latin American populism. (lu.se)
  • He has published on biblical reception, political theology and Latin American Christianity. (lu.se)
  • Over the last four years, he has undertaken an investigation of the first Latin American Pope, the Argentinean Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, also in relation to populism. (lu.se)
  • Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering nearly half of the continent. (masoncrest.com)
  • The culture of Brazil is a fascinating blend of Native American, Portuguese, African, Japanese, and other influences.Over the past five decades, there have been many changes in Brazils society and economy. (masoncrest.com)
  • Social, cultural and political observations about Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, with a couple shorter interludes in Lima and Uruguay, by the leftist Waldo Frank during his 1942 tour of South America. (boydbooks.com)
  • The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of four South American countries - Argentina , Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - have agreed to draft wording for a free-trade deal after almost 20 years of talks, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday. (dw.com)
  • Imani Perry is the author of South to America , winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction. (politics-prose.com)
  • His 2022 book, Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America , is published with Oxford University Press. (niu.edu)
  • Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America. (niu.edu)
  • She specializes on politics, people, and protests in the Southeast Asia region. (lu.se)
  • The databases are arranged according to geographical area covered, in the sections General Databases, East Asia and South and Southeast Asia. (lu.se)
  • Since the early 1970s women across South America have been uniting to confont the brutality and repression of military rule. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Populism, which had been rampant in Latin America for more than 30 years since then, seemed to fade into obscurity with military regimes which have dominated regional politics in the 1960s and 1970s. (ciaonet.org)
  • Social and economic inequality is worsening in the aftermath of COVID-19, and the public distrust of established party politics and existing democratic institutions is growing more than ever. (ciaonet.org)
  • With its high levels of economic inequality and its recent history of political scandals, Latin America can be regarded as a heartland of populism. (lu.se)
  • The lavishly illustrated books in the DISCOVERING SOUTH AMERICA: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE series survey the countries of this continent, and detail the geography, history, economy, and culture of each nation. (masoncrest.com)
  • Despite this, Bolivia continues to face many challenges, and remains one of the least-developed and poorest countries in Latin America. (masoncrest.com)
  • And it seems like the most democratic countries with voting rights, the free countries like Australia and America, have the goofiest politicians getting elected every time. (jimandjamie.com)
  • Why have most countries withdrawn from the Union of South American Nations? (stackexchange.com)
  • The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries have agreed on the draft text of a free-trade deal. (dw.com)
  • Some countries, such as France, fear a flood of South American beef on European markets. (dw.com)
  • After I noted that US law is generally understood to restrain FBI agents (even in foreign countries) from interrogating an American after he has asked for a lawyer, Wright acknowledged that the FBI is "subject to the rules of the FBI and the rules of the [Department of Justice] for criminal prosecution," but added that the agency didn't "want to be perceived as commenting on [Kuwaiti] rules or laws. (motherjones.com)
  • Congressman Reyes knows that the border is a challenging environment with many barriers including different priorities for the two countries who share the border, different public health systems, travel restrictions, language, and politics. (cdc.gov)
  • The researchers focus both on global patterns as well as regions and countries, such as the Balkans, Asia, the European Union, South America, the Middle East and Europe. (lu.se)
  • The dataset is unprecedented in both temporal and geographic scope and includes countries from Europe, North America, South America, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. (lu.se)
  • Not long ago, Venezuela together with Argentina was among the wealthiest and most well-being countries in Latin America. (lu.se)
  • It's great to see that it's happening in some of these countries, but we really need that to expand," she said at The Liver Meeting, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). (medscape.com)
  • She is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. (politics-prose.com)
  • Latin America has ample experience with crises of all sorts, but this one is unprecedented. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Nuñes' story, while discouraging, is not uncommon for women in South America. (womeninpolitics.co)
  • With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. (politics-prose.com)
  • For all the world to see, a 41-year-old woman, who has committed no crime, will die of dehydration and starvation in the longest public execution in American history. (blogs.com)
  • The weakness of political parties in Peruvian politics has been recognized throughout the nation's history, with competing leaders fighting for power following the collapse of the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru. (wikipedia.org)
  • She is the co-editor of Unlocking V. O. Key, Jr . (Arkansas, 2011), The Ongoing Burden of Southern History (LSU, 2013), and The Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in American Politics (Palgrave, 2018), and editor of the new edition of Ralph McGill's A Church, A School (South Carolina, 2012). (uark.edu)
  • In South to America , Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. (politics-prose.com)
  • Oral Histories of the American South " began as a small collection (21 interviews) developed to experiment with the online presentation of oral history interviews. (unc.edu)
  • The Southern Oral History Program, founded in 1973, has conducted over 4,000 interviews throughout North Carolina and the American South on a variety topics, including civil rights, women's issues, politics, and environmental transformations. (unc.edu)
  • Oral Histories of the American South" is intended not only to increase access to the Southern Oral History Program's interviews, but also to accomplish a qualitative advance in making these interviews useful. (unc.edu)
  • Peru is considered to be one of the most conservative nations in Latin America, especially with social conservatism. (wikipedia.org)
  • South America, a continent that for decades made unwelcome news, has settled into a steady, if not exactly sedate pace of progress. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • South America is the fourth-largest continent on earth, and is home to more than 386 million people. (masoncrest.com)
  • Named for South America's famed independence fighter Simón Bolívar, landlocked Bolivia rests in the center of the continent. (masoncrest.com)
  • Maxwell is the author of The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiorit y, and the Politics of Whiteness (UNC, 2014) which won the V. O. Key Award for best book in southern politics and the C. Hugh Holman Honorable Mention for best book in southern literary criticism. (uark.edu)
  • Morrison's last novel adopts the author's quintessential themes of beauty, American blackness versus whiteness, slavery and the ghosts of communal and individual traumas, inholding the lasting injury of rejection for having a skin color which is too dark, hair that is too kinky. (lu.se)
  • See Art Marmostein's delightful use of a Biblical story to indicate his clarity, in the Aberdeen American News. (blogs.com)
  • Centuries have passed since women gained the right to work, vote, run for office, and while in many places they have revolutionized politics, many regions of the world, like South America, await a similar change. (womeninpolitics.co)
  • On March 28, 2019, Angie Maxwell presented "The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics" as part of the Pryor Center Presents lecture series. (uark.edu)
  • A land of great beauty and contrasts, Chile features the snow-capped volcanic peaks of the Andes to the east, the extremely dry Atacama Desert to its north, and rainy, thick forests to the south. (masoncrest.com)
  • It would be naive to think the same problems will not hit Latin America, which has a poor track record on past pandemics: during the 1957-58 Asian flu, Chile topped the world with 9.8 deaths for every ten thousand inhabitants. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Visualizing Reach of Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Asian Americans: the REACH FAR Project in New York and New Jersey. (cdc.gov)
  • Especially in the wake of Hugo Chávez's successful campaign to eliminate presidential term limits, a question about Venezuela n politics is whether the Bolivarian revolution can survive without its founder. (blogspot.com)
  • World Politics Review LLC 401 E. Jackson St, Ste 3300 Tampa, FL 33602. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Women in politics from all over the world have influenced the way we act and think, changing the way politics and the law are enacted. (womeninpolitics.co)
  • In terms of its strategic position in political structure of decision making, this might be characterized not only in American political governance system, but also can be found in many cases in the other part of the world. (sagepub.com)
  • Over the course of Steinbrenner's ownership, the Yankees won seven World Series and 11 American League pennants. (history.com)
  • The "Southern Politics" cluster includes interviews with political leaders, journalists, and others reflecting on the southern political landscape after World War II, a period of vast change that saw a region struggling to adapt to an influx of new voices into the political process. (unc.edu)
  • Butler has straddled the world of politics and activism since she began her career. (wkrn.com)
  • Activists from different parts of Korea and from around the world use different forms of protests like rallies, prayers, petitions, and art to save Jeju, which is home to a number of UNESCO heritage sites, and is South Korea's top honeymoon destination. (dw.com)
  • His research interests include regional governance and conflict management in the Global South, with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), international relations theory, and interpretive and qualitative research methods. (niu.edu)
  • Populist forces have been resilient in Latin America and continue to cause instability and uncertainty across the region. (ciaonet.org)
  • Populist figures in the region first rose to prominence during the period of import substitution industrialization in the 1930s, capitalizing on the growing demands for mass politics and better social benefits from the rapidly expanding urban working class. (ciaonet.org)
  • Being the global region with the highest percentage of Christians, Latin America serves as a highly relevant case for the populist potential of contemporary Christianities. (lu.se)
  • Born and raised in rural Alabama, a resident of Nashville, Tennessee for almost 35 years, Margaret Renkl loves the South. (wypr.org)
  • In this engaging book, Isaac de Paz González unveils the abilities, and the practices of the Inter-American Court's contribution to human rights policy in the Global South.This innovative book offers a thorough and complete examination of the Inter-American Court's jurisprudence over its forty years of existence, within the framework of Economic and Social Rights (ESR). (lu.se)
  • South American nations are certainly feeling the impact of the global economic and political waves, but they are staying afloat and moving forward amid the storm. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Australia has now hardened its position against Beijing's territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea, labelling the activity illegal in a statement to the United Nations . (abc.net.au)
  • Thirdly, the authors highlight the role of women in politics at the subnational level. (civilresistance.info)
  • While studies show that at least 60 percent of women in South America get a degree of some sort and pursue a career after high school, of those women, less than 20 percent choose a career related to law or politics. (womeninpolitics.co)
  • It is common to read about the decline of U.S. influence in Latin America, and the rise of other economic partners such as Russia and China. (blogspot.com)
  • Australia has resisted the United States' push for more assertive freedom of navigation exercises in the disputed waters in the South China Sea at high-level talks in Washington. (abc.net.au)
  • But Australia still appears to be resisting a push from the United States to conduct more assertive freedom-of-navigation exercises in the South China Sea. (abc.net.au)
  • It includes the president of CANF and Mark Falcoff, a well-known conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. (blogspot.com)
  • Last week, the ABC revealed Australian warships encountered the Chinese Navy while sailing through the region to the Philippine Sea for training exercises with the American and Japanese navies . (abc.net.au)
  • The AUSMIN talks also included an agreement to establish a US-funded military fuel reserve in Darwin, which would ensure American machines of war were not left stranded in the region in a situation where supply lines were disrupted. (abc.net.au)
  • Renkl's sense of joyful belonging to the South, a region too often dismissed on both coasts in crude stereotypes and bad jokes, co-exists with her intense desire for Southerners who face prejudice or poverty finally to be embraced and supported. (wypr.org)
  • One interesting difference in this film and all the other in the series is that Captain America actually kills people. (blogs.com)
  • Politics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people interested in governments, policies, and political processes. (stackexchange.com)
  • And tomorrow in Phoenix the president will unveil a $50 billion plan to help people in danger of losing perhaps the biggest part of the American dream -- their own home. (cnn.com)
  • We look forward to welcoming Laphonza as the 59th member of the CBC and to continuing our work on behalf of the American people. (wkrn.com)
  • What does this mean for the country-for the people living there, and for Latin America in a larger context? (lu.se)
  • Residents of South Korea's Jeju Island continue to protest the construction of a naval base, which they say will be used by the US. (dw.com)
  • The research group aims narrow the gap between historical research on the Global South and the current development debate. (lu.se)
  • Living Room Politics (opinions expressed through the mass media, grassroots movements, political activists, and voters). (sagepub.com)
  • The questions are to what extent these ideas, connected with cultural hegemony and the relation between elites and masses, are still valid today and what contribution they can make in the current phase of change characterized by new movements and forms of politics and by new means of communication. (bvsalud.org)
  • In South to America, Perry shows readers that there is no one archetype of the American South , as she considers everything from immigrant communities to the legacy of slavery to her own ancestral roots. (politics-prose.com)
  • A Binational Comparison of Barriers and Facilitators to Healthful Eating Among Central American Communities. (cdc.gov)
  • His research focused on socioeconomic development in the context of economies at an early stage of economic development in East and South-East Asia. (lu.se)
  • Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States-one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress, and explores the influence of corporate leaders, interest groups, bureaucrats, judges, and journalists. (sagepub.com)
  • The Inter-American Court of Human Rights continues to build justiciability to determine the social rights of marginalised individuals and groups in the Americas. (lu.se)
  • Influence of organizational and social contexts on the implementation of culturally adapted hypertension control programs in Asian American-serving grocery stores, restaurants, and faith-based community sites: A qualitative study. (cdc.gov)
  • Captain America, like Nick Fury, was a character born in WWII storytelling and later revived and readapted to post war culture. (blogs.com)
  • A historical outline, with particular reference to Italy, is traced of the contradictory and conflictual role of Gramsci's thought in politics and culture. (bvsalud.org)
  • This with reference also to the role of Gramsci in South American and Brazilian culture. (bvsalud.org)
  • Aarie Glas and John Kirton (2012), "Global Governance from America, Canada and the Responsible Rest" in Sean Clark and Sabrina Hoque (eds. (niu.edu)
  • We have recently seen the emergence of strange concepts such as fake news , alternative facts , and post-truth politics . (lu.se)
  • The revolutionary solidarity between Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, the bedrock of the alliance, is based on the vision of a united Latin America free of Washington 's control, turning Simón Bolívar's legacy into a new reality. (blogspot.com)
  • Beginning with Barry Goldwater's Operation Dixie in 1964, the Republican Party targeted disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. (uark.edu)
  • This is the first North American exhibition to focus exclusively on the paintings of South America's Visceregal period. (azpbs.org)
  • No matter how small you are, America is a place where you can make it big. (blogs.com)
  • Maxwell received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas, and her research and commentary have been featured in Slate and on MSNBC's "The Reid Report" and "The Cycle. (uark.edu)
  • His research has been published in the European Journal of International Relations , International Affairs , Journal of Global Security Studies , and PS: Political Science and Politics , among other outlets. (niu.edu)
  • The Peace and International Politics (PIP) research group convenes approximately once a month. (lu.se)
  • Kamaruding Abdulsomad was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for East and South East Asian Studies, Lund University from January 2006 to December 2007. (lu.se)
  • Cesar de Prado Yepes was a Research Fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University 2002-2003. (lu.se)