Middle Powers: IBSA and the New South-South Cooperation
In the 1970s, the world’s underdeveloped nations launched the idea of South-South cooperation. Following in the spirit of Bandung, they ...
Briefly Noted
Latin America at the Crossroads: Domination, Crisis, Popular Movements and Political Alternatives, by Roberto Regalado, 2007, Ocean Press, 263 pages, ...
A Bill Only Bush Could Love
Once again, a proposed immigration reform bill has been killed in Congress. Rejected by a range of political actors even ...
Introduction: The Multipolar Moment?
Picture it: two flags, one Chinese, the other Cuban, flying on an oil rig just a few dozen miles off ...
Red Star Over Latin America
Since the Bandung Conference of 1955, China has consistently identified itself with the developing world, calling itself the “world’s largest ...
The Immigrant Rights Welcome Wagon?
Thanks for the good news in the May/June issue (“Of Migrants and Minutemen”) about immigrant labor organizing and Latino-black community ...
Mate on the Market: Fair Trade and the Gaucho’s ‘Liquid Vegetable’
When Eugenio Kasalaba awoke on March 24, 1976, in Argentina’s northeastern-most province of Misiones, he and his father began the ...
Problematic Brothers: Iranian Reaction to Chávez and Ahmadinejad
When Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, call each other brothers, they are bound to be “up ...