The Reinvention of Mexico explores the ideological conflict between
neoliberalism and nationalism that has been at the core of economic
and political developments in Latin America since the mid-1980s. It
focuses on Mexico, which offers a unique opportunity to study one
of the ruptures in 20th-century political thought that has come to
define an era of unprecedented globalization. The book examines how
neoliberals dismantling the statist economy in Mexico under
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-94) confronted the
dominant, official ideology upon which the country's development
had hitherto been based: revolutionary nationalism. It also
considers how intellectuals and the main political forces to the
left and right of the PRI grappled with the issues generated by the
climate of market reform, in a period when there appeared to be few
ideological alternatives to it, and the broader effort to reconcile
economic liberalism with revolutionary nationalism that Salinas was
attempting. Showing that the case of Mexico during the 1990s had
important implications for the study of nationalism, the book
offers timely insights into national responses to globalization and
the form taken by debates about the most appropriate vision of
political economy in Latin America. The highly contested result of
Mexico's 2006 election demonstrated the extent to which the fateful
ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism remains
unresolved.
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