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The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America: Power from
Afar explores the important issues of transnational actors and
their influence on institutions and people in Latin America,
raising profound questions of accountability, social justice, and
sovereignty. The text focuses on four particularly significant
groups that transcend national boundaries: the Catholic Church,
transnational corporations, transnational drug networks, and
transnational human rights networks. By comparing each of their
impacts on the region, Frederick M. Shepherd explores larger
questions about transnational power and how it has deeply
penetrated the nations of Latin America. The book's analysis delves
into attempts made over the last 100 years by citizens, social
movements, and governments to reassert a degree of control over
these transnational actors, setting up a framework to understand
how local, national, and global forces interact in a setting of
transnational dominance. The volume suggests that local and
national groups can use principles and power to bring about
equitable and just outcomes in relation to transnational actors,
and that, in some cases, transnational actors can be a part of
constructive change in Latin America. This concise volume will be
of interest to students of History, Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, and Political Science, as well as those interested in
20th-century Latin American politics and political history.
The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America: Power from
Afar explores the important issues of transnational actors and
their influence on institutions and people in Latin America,
raising profound questions of accountability, social justice, and
sovereignty. The text focuses on four particularly significant
groups that transcend national boundaries: the Catholic Church,
transnational corporations, transnational drug networks, and
transnational human rights networks. By comparing each of their
impacts on the region, Frederick M. Shepherd explores larger
questions about transnational power and how it has deeply
penetrated the nations of Latin America. The book's analysis delves
into attempts made over the last 100 years by citizens, social
movements, and governments to reassert a degree of control over
these transnational actors, setting up a framework to understand
how local, national, and global forces interact in a setting of
transnational dominance. The volume suggests that local and
national groups can use principles and power to bring about
equitable and just outcomes in relation to transnational actors,
and that, in some cases, transnational actors can be a part of
constructive change in Latin America. This concise volume will be
of interest to students of History, Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, and Political Science, as well as those interested in
20th-century Latin American politics and political history.
In Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for
Global Justice, Frederick M. Shepherd has collected essays by
scholars and activists who, in a wide variety of ways, confront the
issue of Christianity's role in the burgeoning movement for human
rights. The volume's contributors provide diverse perspectives on
the theology behind the idea of human rights, the debate over the
its meaning, and the evolution of the struggle for human rights. A
wide variety of disciplinary perspectives are represented, from
economics, political science and law to history, philosophy and
theology. The essays also represent a broad political spectrum,
including specific accounts from activists participating in the
struggle for human rights. Separate chapters focus on cases from
Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Christianity and Human
Rights begins and ends with attempts to synthesize current theory
and practice, acknowledging both Christianity's great success and
its failures in defending basic human rights around the globe.
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