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Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization.(Book Review)

Publication: Race and Class
Publication Date: 01-APR-04
Format: Online - approximately 1025 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Transnational Conflicts: Central American, social change, and globalization By WILLIAM I. ROBINSON (London, Verso, 2003), 400 pp., Paper, $26.00/18.00 [pounds sterling].

William Robinson is emerging as a major theorist on globalisation, with particular expertise on Central and Latin His a...

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...America. latest work, Transnational Conflicts, combines innovative theoretical insights with detailed empirical study of Central America. Any argument that positions US hegemony at the centre of a nation/state imperialist system will have to answer Robinson's analysis of transnational capitalism.

What makes Robinson's approach so unique is that he takes his argument into the heart of what most observers consider the backyard of US imperialism, Central America. If any region of the world is considered under US hegemony, many would list the countries of this region: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

But Robinson takes the reader through a convincing history. Starting in detail with the post-second world war period of...

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