Political Economy of Latin America

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This course will explore pre-Colombian, as well as colonial and post-colonial political and economic development in Latin America. It will pay particular attention to socio-political developments of the Cold War period as well as recent significant initiatives such as the Santiago Commitment, MERCOSUR, and NAFTA, attempting to assess their impact upon Latin America’s transformation from developmentalism, to Third World politics, to an emerging center of democratic capitalism.