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Isaza, Laura Rodriguez. "Branding Latin America : film festivals and the international circulation of Latin American films." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3408/.
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Despite receiving little academic attention throughout most of their history, film festivals have become the ‘natural’ background were most world cinema films are assessed both in terms of their artistic value and their potential for international consumption. Based on their cultural prestige, their crowd-gathering ability and hierarchical dynamics festivals create a multilayered filtering system that determines the varying artistic reputations of films and filmmakers as they travel from one event to another. However, the economic interests and geopolitical biases embedded in the Euro-American dominated system raise challenging questions about festivals’ criteria of artistic quality and supposedly objective ability to map world cinema. While festivals have become strategic regulators of world cinema traffic they affect both the commercial possibilities of individual Latin American films in global markets and the interpretive frameworks through which world cinema is assessed and understood. Using a theoretical framework drawn from the discipline of sociology of art, this research uses the concept of the ‘film festival world’ to analyse the international reception of Latin American cinemas as part of a cultural and industrial process of selection of the ‘best’ films from the region. First, it examines the film festival phenomenon in terms of its interaction with the global film industry and the marketing of film products for foreign audiences. Second, it analyses the international historical reception of key Latin American films from the expansion of the film festival circuit in the 1940s. Thirdly, it studies how contemporary films from the region continue to be assessed and interpreted across the film festival world in accordance with contingent notions of quality and well-established auteurist models. Thus, this thesis argues that the ‘Latin American cinema’ brand has been defined in close connection with the contingent ideas and practices of the film festival world, becoming an interpretive framework that enables the international positioning of cinemas from the region both as cultural artefacts and commercial products.
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Rave, Maria Eugenia B. "Magical Realism and Latin America." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/RaveMEB2003.pdf.
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Peláez, Díaz Lucy Alejandra. "Consulting report - Tecport Latin America." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/8308.
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x, 157 h. : il. ; 30 cmTecport América Latina es un distribuidor regional de maquinaria portuaria con presencia actual en Perú y Brasil. Tecport es un grupo joven de empresas, que intenta ganar cuota de mercado en una industria madura con guerra de precios. Internamente, el grupo cuenta con recursos humanos limitados ubicados en diferentes países, con diferencia culturales y de zona horaria. Además, existe una alta vulnerabilidad debido a que el negocio depende de un acuerdo exclusivo con un productor italiano de maquinaria. La organización está aperturando una nueva sede en Chile, que está comenzando sus operaciones muy pronto. Al hacerlo, un problema de la transferencia y gestión de conocimientos entre oficinas se hizo evidente. La solución a este problema sería determinar la forma en que el conocimiento puede ser transferido eficientemente; de tal manera que los procesos del negocio sean más productivos y sostenibles en el tiempo. Las técnicas aplicadas para la resolución de problemas son design thinking, estrategia basada en el cliente, y estrategia de ventas a largo plazo. Para decidir la major solución, se elaboró una matriz con mediciones de impactos en la calidad, el costo y el tiempo, y los riesgos asociados. La solución propuesta es establecer un programa de gestión de procesos empresariales, que tiene como objetivo conectar la cadena de suministro y la gestión con el cliente; a través de la optimización de los procesos. Esto le permite a Tecport LA alcanzar inteligencia empresarial estratégica en el largo plazo. En el corto plazo, los administradores son capaces de supervisar y controlar toda la organización. El plan de implementación involucrará a los empleados clave en la organización desde la etapa de diseño, para garantizar su compromiso basado en responsabilidad propia. Estas actividades tienen por objeto no sólo preparar a la empresa para utilizar la solución propuesta, sino también para analizar los indicadores clave de rendimiento, que evaluarán la eficiencia de los empleados que utilizan esta herramienta
Tecport Latin America is a regional distributor of port machinery with current presence in Peru and Brazil. Tecport is a young group of companies attempting to gain market share in a mature industry with price war. Internally, the group has limited human resources placed in different countries with cultural and time zones differences. Apart from that, there is a high vulnerability because its business depends on an exclusive agreement with one Italian producer of machinery. The organization is opening a new subsidiary in Chile, which is starting its operations very soon. When doing so, a problem of knowledge transfer and management between offices became apparent. The solution to this problem would be to determine a way in which knowledge could be transferred in an effective way that would make business processes more productive and sustainable in time. The techniques applied for the problem solving are design thinking, customer-based strategy, and the long-term sales strategy. To support the decision of the most effective solution to propose, a matrix was developed measuring impacts in quality, cost and time, and associated risks. The proposed solution is to establish a Business Process Management program, which aims to connect Supply Chain and Client Relationship Management, through the optimization of processes. It allows Tecport LA to achieve strategic business intelligence in the long term. In the short term, managers are able to better control and oversee the entire organization. The implementation plan will involve the key employees in the organization since the design stage to guarantee their commitment based on own responsibility. These activities are intended to not only prepare the company to use the proposed solution, but also to analyze key performance indicators, expected to evaluate the efficiency of the employees using this tool
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Landa, Arroyo César. "Constitutional Justice in Latin America." IUS ET VERITAS, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123250.
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From the relationship between Democracy and Constitutionalism in Latin America, the author addresses the issue of constitutional justice as an entity of control of the constitutionality of the laws, which would have power against majority when it derogates an unconstitutional legislation. Also, the author reflects on the protection of fundamental rights in the region, analyzing the nuances presented in terms of the various constitutional conceptions.A partir de la relación entre la Democracia y el Constitucionalismo en Latinoamérica, el autor aborda la problemática de justicia constitucional como entidad encargada del control judicial de las leyes, que ejercería un poder contra mayoritario de anular las normas legales inconstitucionales. Asimismo, se plantea una reflexión acerca del amparo de los derechos fundamentales en la región, analizando los matices que presenta en cuantoa las distintas concepciones constitucionales.
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Sundberg, Edward D. "Arm sales to Latin America." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FSundberg.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Harold Trinkunas, Robert Looney. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66). Also available online.
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Moreno, Erika. "Small parties in Latin America." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290602.
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Empirical research on political parties has shed light on many aspects of party organization and behavior. Unfortunately, there is a great deal that we do not know about small parties, especially in presidential systems. I take a two-pronged approach to studying small parties in Latin America's presidential regimes. First, I examine the factors that impact the election of small parties across Latin America's democratic regimes from 1980 to 1998, accounting for both institutional and cultural factors. Next, I move toward an examination of the representation and governance roles that small parties play in three carefully selected presidential democracies: Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela. Since small parties are rarely studied, it is unclear what, if any, impact they have on the representativeness of the political system. Small parties may act as promoters of new policies which reside outside the boundaries of traditionally dominant parties. This may mean identifying with issues that are important to those sectors of society that have been ignored (e.g. minority rights) or representing new issues that cut across sectors of society (e.g. decentralization). Alternatively, they may promote mainstream issues, or they may have no substantive policy import (acting primarily as personalistic vehicles). With respect to governance roles, they may play an important supportive role in major party coalitions. Indeed, their coalition behavior may substantively impact the legitimacy of the system by supporting minority governments.
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Fox, Kiira Elizabeth. "Mormon Fertility in Latin America." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3050.
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While previous research has identified religion as an influence of fertility, how context changes the nature of that relationship remains little understood. Using census data from Brazil, Chile and Mexico, this study examines whether the high fertility pattern of one pronatalist, American-born religion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) translates to the Latin American context. Results indicate that it does, but only inconsistently as the pronatalist pattern is masked by members' educational attainment and mixed religion marriages. When these attributes are accounted for LDS fertility is high in Latin America, especially among the more educated. This study highlights both the importance of member characteristics in influencing fertility and the role of selective recruiting in determining how and whether these characteristics vary by context.
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Neffen, Hugo, Carlos Fritscher, Francisco Cuevas Schacht, Gur Levy, Pascual Chiarella, Joan B. Soriano, and Daniel Mechali. "Asthma control in Latin America: the Asthma Insights and Reality in Latin America (AIRLA) survey." Pan American Health Organization, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/625754.
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Objectives. The aims of this survey were (1) to assess the quality of asthma treatment and control in Latin America, (2) to determine how closely asthma management guidelines are being followed, and (3) to assess perception, knowledge and attitudes related to asthma in Latin America. Methods. We surveyed a household sample of 2 184 adults or parents of children with asthma in 2003 in 11 countries in Latin America. Respondents were asked about healthcare utilization, symptom severity, activity limitations and medication use. Results. Daytime asthma symptoms were reported by 56% of the respondents, and 51 % reported being awakened by their asthma at night. More than half of those surveyed had been hospitalized, attended a hospital emergency service or made unscheduled emergency visits to other healthcare facilities for asthma during the previous year. Patient perception of asthma control did not match symptom severity, even in patients with severe persistent asthma, 44.7% of whom regarded their disease as being well or completely controlled. Only 2.4% (2.3% adults and 2.6% children) met all criteria for asthma control. Although 37% reported treatment with prescription medications, only 6% were using inhaled corticosteroids. Most adults (79%) and children (68%) in this survey reported that asthma symptoms limited their activities. Absence from school and work was reported by 58% of the children and 31% of adults, respectively. Conclusions. Asthma control in Latin America falls short of goals in international guidelines, and in many aspects asthma care and control in Latin America suffer from the same shortcomings as in other areas of the world.Revisión por pares
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Scherlis, Gerardo. "Presidents and parties in Latin America: the exceptionality of peronism in the Latin American context." Politai, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/91944.
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Political parties have ceased fulfilling substantial representative functions. Their legitimacy lies now on their role as governmental agencies. This led to an increasing interpenetration between parties and the states, and to the empowerment of those leaders that occupy executive offices. In the Latin American context these features are particularly intense in the case of ruling parties in countries where traditional parties collapsed or suffered significant brand dilution. In these cases the president controls the ruling party, while the «really existent» party organization is built up on the basis of networks recruited by the elected leader to run the government. The central argument of this article is that Peronism is the sole political force which has managed to adapt successfully to the conditions of electoral competition in contemporary Argentina. The president´s autonomy in terms of public policies´ in relation to a political machine sustained on the basis of the control of sub-national states makes it possible to disentangle the legitimacy of the party from that of its current national leadership. This scheme provides Peronism with a successful self-preservation mechanism, which is exceptional in the Latin American context.Los partidos políticos han dejado de cumplir funciones representativas significativas para legitimarse a partir de su rol como agencias de gobierno. Esto ha implicado la creciente inter- penetración entre partidos y estados, así como la concentración de recursos en los líderes que ocupan cargos ejecutivos. En el contexto latinoamericano, estas características alcanzan mayor intensidad en los partidos de gobierno de países en los que se ha producido el colapso o la dilu- ción del valor de la etiqueta de los partidos tradicionales. En estos casos, el presidente controla al partido de gobierno, mientras la estructura partidaria realmente existente se constituye sobre la base de las redes reclutadas por el líder electo para el ejercicio del gobierno.El argumento central del artículo consiste en que el peronismo es la única fuerza política que ha logrado adaptarse exitosamente a las condiciones de la competencia electoral en la Argentina contemporánea. La autonomía del presidente en términos de orientación de políticas públicas frente a una máquina partidaria sostenida sobre la base del control de los estados subnacionales hace posible escindir la legitimidad del partido respecto a la de su coyuntural liderazgo. Esto provee al peronismo de un exitoso mecanismo de preservación, excepcional en el contexto latinoamericano.
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Miller, Bradley D. "The American Chemical Society and its Activities in Latin America." Revista de Química, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/99325.
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Klipic, Irma. "Government Responses to Femicides in Latin America : A comparative case study of five Latin American countries." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77690.
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Worldwide, women face gender-based violence daily. Gender-based violence constitutes a growing problem in societies worldwide, and one in three women globally has experienced some sort of intimate partner violence, which is the most common form of gender-based violence. Femicides are the worst form of gender-based violence with a fatal outcome, and an issue of human rights, developmental issue, health issue, and societal issue. Latin America is the regions with one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and that is one reason for why the regions was chosen. There is a wide range of research done on the subject of femicides, however there is a scarcity on the subject of Latin American government responses and legislations, and how these impact the femicide rates in the region. This thesis will examine how government responses affect femicide rates in five selected countries; Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The study will be a qualitative comparative multi-case desk study analyzed through an abductive approach. The theory applied will be the social inclusion and exclusion theory to understand if policies are inclusive or exclusive, and if the nature of the legislations have an impact on the femicide rates. The main underlying causes of femicides are impunity, lack of political will, funding, and the machismo culture. The analysis suggests that the current femicide legislations are not of appropriate nature to curb femicides as they do not tackle the underlying causes of it.
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Cordovez, Mónica. "Transfer of technology to Latin America." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60476.
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The acquisition of foreign technology is an imperative requisite for the economic and social progress of developing countries. However, the strong bargaining position of technology suppliers vis a vis technology acquirers unduly influences the terms and conditions under which technology is conveyed to developing countries and perpetuates their dependence on foreign sources of technology.State intervention, through the enactment of technology transfer legislation, is a viable alternative for strengthening the acquirer's bargaining position, and thus obtaining technology under fair and equitable terms. Technology transfer policies must focus on the generation of indigenous technological capabilities, rather than on the mere importation of consumptive technology. In order to achieve their ultimate goals--social and economic progress and technological self-reliance, developing countries' governments must integrate these policies within concrete and long-term economic development programs.
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Fierro, Jaime. "Citizenship and democracy in Latin America." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428900.
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Meister, Robyn J. "Liberalism and Conservatism in Latin America." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1330.
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Kada, Naoko. "Politics of impeachment in Latin America /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3044796.
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Gaitan-Barrera, Alejandra. "Rethinking Indigenous Autonomism in Latin America." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366022.
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This thesis contributes to a broader scholarly understanding of how indigenous movements in Latin America articulate autonomy. One of the central objectives of this research is to address a simple, yet often either assumed or unheeded, question: what does the indigenous subject want? What are the distinct meanings behind the political projects put forward by indigenous movements in the region? How do they envision their liberation from the current systems of oppression? And, most importantly, how do they define concepts such as “self-determination” and “autonomy”? These questions are central to understanding the nuanced transformative processes that indigenous peoples in Latin America have set into motion. In this sense, this thesis will demonstrate that far from homogenous, each movement, according to its own lived experiences of colonization and settlement, national building processes, local history, as well as cultural and political imaginaries and collective memories, conceives autonomy in a different way. Out of these distinct articulations of autonomy, this thesis argues there are two movements at the forefront of an unheeded and overlooked autonomist project: the Council of Miskitu Elders in Mosquitia (Nicaragua) and the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee in Wallmapu (Chile).Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Billias, Maria Alexandra. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144179.
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Mandros, William Platon. "Underdevelopment and Violence in Latin America." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625463.
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King, Sheryl J. "Microfinance in Latin America: Evidence Found in Mexico and South America." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192502.
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Van, Lier Amadeus Moritz Christof. "International Outsourcing of Services towards Latin America." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2011. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/bce/van_l_am/.
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Guerra, Cepeda Paula X. "The emergence of environmentalism in Latin America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0001/MQ36823.pdf.
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Miller, N. "Soviet relations with Latin America 1959-1979." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375987.
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Smith, Mark Adrian. "Soviet perspectives on Latin America 1959-1987." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329206.
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Aragon, Alba F. "The Rhetoric of Fashion in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10632.
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This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. It shows how fashion has helped to advance specific visions of cultural identity, historical change, and literary production and consumption. Chapter 1 surveys current understandings of dress, fashion, and related concepts, highlighting this dissertation's questioning of fashion as a historically construed, rhetorically powerful discourse associated with Western modernity. It reflects on the importance of sartorial metaphors in literary theory and proposes that fashion is key to understanding the specificity of Latin American modernity. Chapter 2 surveys current scholarship on fashion in Latin America, reconsidering fashion's role in works by Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Andrés Bello, Domingo Sarmiento, José Martí and other seminal nineteenth-century writers. Chapter 3 offers the first study of the women's fashion magazine Elegancias (1911-1914), produced in Paris for Latin American consumption with Rubén Darío as literary editor. It investigates Darío's involvement and analyzes four collaborations presently unpublished in book form, particularly Darío's profile of the Argentine writer Delfina Bunge (whom he called "mademoiselle Verlaine"). It also analyzes Elegancia's inscription of Latin American modernismo within femininity and commodity culture. Chapter 4 shifts to Mexico, following the motif of the empty indigenous dress in works by painter Frida Kahlo and writer Rosario Castellanos spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. Mexico's indigenous textile traditions offer a space against/outside fashion from which to subvert normative femininity, imagine ethnic filiations, and critique post-revolutionary Mexico's forging of a mestizo national identity that incorporates indigenous people as mere icons. Chapter 4 analyzes Alejo Carpentier's major novels and his fashion chronicles in Venezuela's El Nacional from the 1950s. It analyzes the representation of everyday dress as costume within the world as theatre metaphor and Carpentier's Benjaminian sensibility in granting fashion allegorical meanings in relation to historical dialectics and transculturation. Throughout, the analysis observes how fashion exacerbates anxieties about Latin American divergence from metropolitan cultural models while its repertoire of images and discourses is used to fruitfully negotiate gender, race, and class as images of the body politic crystalize into images of the dressed body.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Stonerook, Olen Dean. "Democracy and education equity in Latin America." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4715.
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In the literature democratic longevity in countries transitioning from authoritarian regimes to democracy is linked to economic development; four factors of economic development are identified: industrialization, education, urbanization, and growing wealth. Education is viewed as a primary factor for effective democratic participation and economic development. This thesis examines the relationship between level of democracy and educational outputs and outcomes. Does the level of democracy (political rights and civil liberties) have an effect on the levels of investment in education and measurable outcomes in education equity toward meeting the educational needs of the newly represented public? The expectation is that the increased scope of political participation and representation in new democratic regimes would result in higher government spending for education with implications for education equity. This study is conducted using a cross-sectional, longitudinal statistical model. The analysis is based on 18 Latin American countries over a thirty-eight-year period, from 1972 to 2010. To examine the connection between level of democracy and education equity, the study explores the effects of democracy on different levels of education, gender, and social class. In addition to the quantitative analysis, a qualitative component aims at contextualizing this relationship that is, examining closer the mechanism that underlies the connection between democracy and education equity in the cases of Mexico and Brazil.ID: 030646241; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-102).
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Roberto-Cáez, Omar Manuel. "Women in insurgent groups in Latin America." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41435.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.In Latin America, the use of political violence against authoritarian regimes increased after the Cuban Revolution. In the 1970s, women began to join revolutionary movements in ever-growing numbers, to the point that the presence of female guerrillas or terrorists was no longer remarkable. The most important factors that influenced women to join insurgencies were political ideology, state and domestic violence, culture, social networks, and changes in guerilla tactics. Women took on various insurgency roles, including those of fighter, supporter, and sympathizer. The post-conflict repercussions of female participation in political violence vary, depending on the capacity of the demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration process. So far, however, U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine has barely acknowledged this evolution in the gender make-up of insurgencies. The increasing inclusion of females in U.S. combat military occupation specialties should allow the military more flexibility in the way it identifies, classifies, and approaches gender in conventional and counterinsurgency operations.
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Batyra, Ewa. "Fertility and contraceptive use in Latin America." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3842/.
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The rapid fertility declines and increases in contraceptive prevalence rates in the last decades in Latin America occurred concurrently with increases in teenage and unintended childbearing. The factors behind, as well as possible future demographic consequences of this unique pattern of fertility change are still poorly understood. This thesis advances knowledge of three aspects of reproductive behaviour in Latin America: dynamics of contraceptive use in relation to an unintended birth experience, educational disparities in motherhood-timing and possible future of cohort fertility. I explore an untapped potential of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Population Censuses for Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, and employ demographic and statistical modelling techniques that have not been previously fully exploited in the Latin American context. First, I show how the longitudinal DHS reproductive "calendars" can be analysed using event-history models to advance the understanding of contraceptive choices of women who experience unintended pregnancies in Colombia and Peru. The study uncovers the importance of considering patterns of both pre- and after-birth contraceptive behaviour to inform the organization of postpartum family planning programmes in both countries. Second, using census data, I provide the first estimates of cohort first-birth age-specific schedules disaggregated by education level for Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. I document vastly increasing educational disparities in motherhood-timing during the fertility transition and discuss the potential factors behind this process. The analyses uncover a drastic increase in teenage fertility among women who drop-out of secondary school, indicating a need for an intervention. Lastly, using indirectly reconstructed fertility rates from censuses, cohort fertility is forecasted for total population and by education in Brazil. The study shows how a Bayesian model for fertility forecasting can be applied in the Latin American context where the childbearing pattern has been distinct from other world regions and where there is a scarcity of time-series of fertility rates. The study reveals the evolution of educational differences in completed fertility and shows that emerging low period fertility levels in Brazil might not necessarily correspond to women's equally low lifetime fertility in the future. Overall, the substantive findings improve the understanding of the reproductive behaviour disparities in Latin America and serve as inputs for the design of policies to alleviate them. The novel use of data and application of methods are important for the development of future research agendas on fertility change and for the collection of fertility data in the region.
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(UPC), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and César Carrera. "Tracking Exchange Rate Management in Latin America." Elsevier B.V, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/346843.
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cesar.carrera@bcrp.gob.peThe exchange rate is one of the most important prices in any open economy. Tracking deviations from its long-run value may provide important information for policymakers. One way to track such deviations is to examine numerical patterns in exchange rates to see if the patterns appear to have been subject to some degree of policy management. Following this approach, we use Benford’s Law as our base case for free-floating exchange rates. Benford’s Law argues that the frequence of the appearance of numerals finds 1’s more frequent, than 2’s, than 3’s, etc., and this established statistical patterns has been verified and used in research tests in many scientific fields. We apply our forensic approach to exchange rates, computing the distribution of exchange-rate observed values and comparing them with those of Benford’s Law. We document such cases for 15 Latin American countries. Latin American countries are small open economies that are characterized for having different degrees of dollarization and intervention in the forex market, primary based on US dollar transactions. This is an alternative view of how these characteristics play a role with respect to an implied equilibrium exchange rate.
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Gordin, Felipe de Oliveira. "Corruption and economic growth in Latin America." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2008. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2974.
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nÃo hÃThe corruption affects the life of the society in marcante way, and the understanding of this problem has gained an ample quarrel in economic sciences. By means of this work I evaluate in empirical way, using given longitudinal, the association enters an index of perception of the corruption and the gross national product per capita of American countries Latin. The results suggest the impact negative of the corruption, although the impact biggest of other 0 variable, doravante, degree of opening of the economy and size of the government.
A corrupÃÃo afeta a vida da sociedade de maneira marcante, e a compreensÃo desse problema tem ganhado uma ampla discussÃo nas ciÃncias econÃmicas. Por meio deste trabalho avalio de maneira empÃrica, usando dados longitudinais, a associaÃÃo entre um Ãndice de percepÃÃo da corrupÃÃo e o produto nacional bruto per capita de paÃses latino americanos. Os resultados sugerem o impacto negativo da corrupÃÃo, apesar do impacto maior de outras variÃveis, doravante, grau de abertura da economia e tamanho do governo.
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Galindo-Arévalo, María Teresa. "Women's empowerment through cooperatives in Latin America." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1387449194.
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Nova, German Enrique. "INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA." Kyoto University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/181771.
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Moreira, Cristina Braga. "Theorizing Latin America: transactions, resources and institutions." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11601.
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Nos anos 80, a América Latina, uma das regiões menos desenvolvidas do mundo, enfrentou um período de mudanças econômicas e políticas significativas que levaram essa região a um lugar de destaque no mercado mundial. Por conseguinte, a América Latina foi objeto de diversos estudos, que, por sua vez, foram compilados nesta revisão de literatura, a fim de que se possam identificar quais os avanços foram feitos no âmbito da Gestão e Negócios Internacionais. Como base, tomou-se a metodologia aplicada por Meyer e Peng (2005), fazendo um paralelo entre três importantes teorias da área (Teoria de Baseada em Recursos, Teoria Baseada no Custo das Transações e Teoria Institucional) e alguns assuntos-chave de extrema relevância ao entendimento do tema (Construindo Vantagens Competitivas, Liberalização Econômica versus Regulação Governamental e Internacionalização) Ao final, delimitamos as contribuições da América Latina ao estudo da Gestão e Negócios Internacionais, fazendo algumas sugestões para futuros pesquisas nesse âmbito.
In the late 1980s, Latin America, at that the time one of the least developed regions of the world, experienced a period of significant political and economic changes that led to a prominent place in today’s economic world. As a consequence, Latin America has become a top research theme among scholars all over the world. In an attempt to contribute to this body of research, we conducted a qualitative research in order to test the applicability of existing theories in the fields of international business and strategy. Following Meyer and Peng (2005), we outlined the three most advanced theories in these two fields of study: (1) organizational economic theories; (2) resource-based theories; and (3) institutional theories. For each of these theories, we then discuss their contribution to the understanding of the key issues in Latin America such as building competitive advantages, economic liberalization vs. government regulation, and internationalization. Our findings contribute to the literature by discussing and understanding how Latin America research has influenced or impacted the development theory in the fields of IB and Strategy. We conclude by offering some suggestions and opportunities for future research.
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Maria, Maldonado Caceres Claudia. "Indigenous Cultures In Latin America-HU231-201300." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/640761.
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This course provides students with basic theoretical and practical competencies required to become event programmers. Using the program development cycle students will create a program which will allow them to observe first-hand the current social and cultural climates of Peru. This course has an experiential component.
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White, Lyal. "Assessing investment rationale : the case of Anglo American Corporation in Latin America." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11078.
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This thesis assesses the investment decisions and investment behaviour of the Anglo American Corporation in Latin America and Africa. It focuses on the question of ‘why’ Anglo chose to invest in Latin America and how it went about choosing one country over another. It is an historical, ideographic study that explores the role of personalities, institutional, political and corporate culture and wider national and regional political criteria in Anglo’s investment decision process.
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Loxton, James Ivor. "Authoritarian Inheritance and Conservative Party-Building in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070023.
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Beginning in the late 1970s, with the onset of the third wave of democratization, a host of new conservative parties emerged in Latin America. The trajectories of these parties varied tremendously. While some went on to enjoy long-term electoral success, others failed to take root. The most successful new conservative parties all shared a surprising characteristic: they had deep roots in former dictatorships. They were "authoritarian successor parties," or parties founded by high-level incumbents of authoritarian regimes that continue to operate after a transition to democracy. What explains variation in conservative party-building outcomes in Latin America since the onset of the third wave, and why were the most successful new conservative parties also authoritarian successor parties?
This study answers these questions by developing a theory of "authoritarian inheritance." It argues that, paradoxically, close links to former dictatorships may, under some circumstances, be the key to party-building success. This is because authoritarian successor parties sometimes inherit resources from the old regime that are useful under democracy. The study examines five potential resources: party brand, territorial organization, clientelistic networks, business connections and a source of cohesion rooted in a history of joint struggle. New conservative parties that lack such inheritance face a more daunting task. Such parties may have better democratic credentials, but they are likely to have worse democratic prospects.
This argument is developed through an analysis of four parties: Chile's Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Argentina's Union of the Democratic Center (UCEDE), El Salvador's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and Guatemala's Party of National Advancement (PAN). Drawing on interview and archival data gathered during 15 months of fieldwork in five countries, this study contributes to three literatures. First, as the first book-length comparison of conservative parties in Latin America, it contributes to the literature on Latin American politics. Second, by developing a new theory of how successful new parties may emerge--the theory of authoritarian inheritance--it contributes to the literature on party-building. Third, by developing the concept of authoritarian successor parties, it sheds light on a common but underappreciated vestige of authoritarian rule and, in this way, contributes to the literature on regimes.Government
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Urdinez, Francisco. "China in the backyard: Chinese assertiveness and United States\' hegemony in Latin America between 2001 and 2015." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-20062017-140250/.
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This thesis seeks to analyse the relationship between China\'s assertiveness and US hegemony in Latin America in the period 2001-2015. The analysis was done by mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, and has as a central hypothesis that the American hegemony (which is assumed in retraction) negatively affected China\'s assertiveness in the region. The thesis consists of seven chapters, ranging from general conclusions to particular conclusions. The hypothesis proves empirically, but variations are also found between countries and variations by economic activity. I conclude that China approached Latin America through a strategy of accommodative assertiveness, and Latin American countries responded to that approach aiming at diversifying their relationships.Esta tese busca analisar a relação entre a ascensão da China e a hegemonia norte-americana na America Latina no período de 2001-2015. A analise foi feita misturando métodos quantitativos e qualitativos, e tem como hipótese central que a hegemonia norte-americana (que se assume em retração) afetou negativamente a ascensão da China. A tese está composta por sete capítulos, indo de conclusões gerais a conclusões particulares. A hipótese se prova empiricamente, mas também se encontram variações entre países e variações por atividade econômica. Concluo que a China se aproximou da América Latina por meio de uma estratégia de assertividade acomodativa e os países latino-americanos responderam a essa abordagem visando diversificar suas relações.
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De, La Cruz Maria Zosa S. "US military presence in Latin America : making the Manta Forward Operating Location work /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FDeLa%5FCruz.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Harold A. Trinkunas, Jeanne K. Giraldo. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
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Beal, Amanda L. Krieckhaus Jonathan Tabor. "The political foundations of welfare development regime type, domestic pressures, and social spending in Latin America /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/7015.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 26, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Jonathan Krieckhaus. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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De, La Puente Burlando Lorena. "Women and Extractive industry jobs in Latin America." Politai, 2018. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123808.
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Women in Latin America tend to bear greatest negative costs due to extractive industries. Mining and hydrocarbons transform the livelihoods of local populations and also, gender roles that condition access to opportunities for men and women. However, gender roles do not only operate in extractive localities. fte same industry is mainly organized around a masculine culture that allows the marginalization of women as their work force. fte case of direct and indirect employment (formal, informal and illegal) is used to present a series of pending questions despite a context of little information available to understand gender impacts of the extractive industry.Las mujeres en América Latina tienden a recibir mayores impactos negativos a causa de la industria extractiva. La minería y los hidrocarburos transforman los medios de vida de poblaciones locales y así también, los roles de género que condicionarían el mayor o menor acceso a oportunidades para hombres y mujeres. Sin embargo, los roles de género no sólo operan en localidades extractivas. La misma industria está mayoritariamente organizada en torno a una cultura masculina que permitiría la marginalización de las mujeres como su fuerza de trabajo. Se utiliza el caso del empleo directo e indirecto (tanto formal, informal e ilegal) para presentar una serie de preguntas pendientes ante un contexto de poca información sistemática disponible que comprenda los impactos de género de la industria extractiva en América Latina.
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Dóñez, Francisco Juan. "Sustainability indicators for rural industrialization in Latin America." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29828.
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Castillo, Arias Jamie O. "Information sharing about international terrorism in Latin America." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FCastillo%5FArias.pdf.
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Molden, Amy Buchanan. "Microfinance and inclusive financial systems in Latin America." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/646026397/viewonline.
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Macadar, Marquesa. "Sephardic diaspora a case study in Latin America /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380106.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 13, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4805. Adviser: Richard Bauman.
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Cancado, Luciana Pacheco. "Economic growth panel data evidence from Latin America /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1127143858.
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Amarante, Veronica. "Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Latin America." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506832.
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The relationship between income inequality and economic growth has generated a strong controversy both on theoretical and empirical grounds. This research reviews the theoretical literature on the links between inequality and growth, and summarizes the existing empirical evidence. It also provides new evidence for the world and, specifically, for Latin American countries. This evidence is based on macro data and a on the use of variety of econometric techniques. One of the links stressed by the economic literature, related to fertility behavior, is analyzed in depth. The study of fertility and its relation with inequality and economic growth is undertaken both at the aggregate level, based on macro data for Latin American countries, and at a country level. Country level analysis is based on micro data for a middle income country of the region, Uruguay, and is undertaken using micro simulation techniques.
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Scheel, Yasmin C. "Development, women's employment and fertility in Latin America." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39876.pdf.
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Bond, Robert L. "U.S. drug policy: shaping relations with Latin America." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/42586.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedRecent state-level changes in drug policy have raised the prospect that similar changes in federal policy may one day follow. Any such changes will have profound effects on U.S. relations with its neighbors to the south. This thesis attempts to analyze the effects of U.S. drug policy on the overall character of U.S. relations with Latin America. U.S. policy and actions have created a pattern of relationships and side effects in Latin America that can help predict how a continuation, or a change, of current U.S. drug policy may alter U.S. relations with Latin America and influence social and political conditions within the major drug-producing countries of the region. This thesis also seeks to explore policy alternatives to curtail drug related crimes and health issues, which current prohibitive policies exacerbate, and outlines steps to help new policies reach actual implementation.
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Topping, Simon. "Che Guevara and revolutionary Christianity in Latin America." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3552/.
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The thesis, firstly, examines the degree to which revolutionary Christianity in Latin America was influenced by Che Guevara and, secondly, seeks to identify aims and objectives shared by Che Guevara and revolutionary Christianity in Latin America. The four expressions of revolutionary Christianity studied in the thesis are: Camilo Torres in Colombia, "The Movement of Priests for the Third World" in Argentina, "Christians for Socialism" in Chile, and revolutionary Christianity during the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. These groups and individuals cover the period of the emergence and development of revolutionary Christianity in Latin America from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s. The research has identified three key points of influence, three shared aims and three shared objectives. I argue that Guevara was influential (1) as a revolutionary icon, (2) as one who legitimised Christian participation in revolutionary struggle and (3) as one whose concept of the "new man" was used and developed by some Christian revolutionary thinkers. The three shared aims are identified as (1) socialist/communist society, (2) national liberation and (3) the emergence of the "new man". The three shared objectives are identified as (1) revolutionary unity, (2) taking power and (3) conscientisation. The thesis concludes with a summary of the research findings and an examination of Guevara's "new man" alongside the Christian concept of the "new being in Christ". The thesis proposes a synthesis of Guevara's "new man" with the "new being in Christ" by means of the establishment of small scale Christian co- operatives.
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Şerban, Ileana. "The European Union and Latin America : normative encounters." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/111210/.
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The current doctoral research looks at how norm entrepreneur and norm interpreter interact, highlighting the limitations of previous research in recognising the agency of the norm interpreter and the complex interactions between the two actors. Normative encounters is coined as a central concept for understanding how the EU as norm entrepreneur creates normative dialogues with its interlocutors, in this case Latin American regional organisations. Two dynamics are proposed to show how normative encounters happen or are prevented from doing so. On one side, an analysis is made of cases in which the norm entrepreneur attempts to diffuse its norms to the norm interpreter that localises the norms which are then incorporated (or not) in concrete policies through policy entrepreneurship. On the other side, an equally important dynamic starts with the norm interpreter that creates new norms though norm subsidiarity, diffuses this new normative content and creates a need for the initial norm entrepreneur to adapt its normative approach and to make it visible to the norm interpreter through concrete policies. By using concepts from both International Relations and public policy studies, the thesis questions and updates the way of looking at the European Union as a normative actor. It also explores the link between norms and policies by analysing the European Union cooperation for development strategies and programmes, as well as the negotiation of Association Agreements with three regional groups in Latin America: Central America, Mercosur and the Andean Community. Thus, the study opens a space of analysis in which norm entrepreneurship is part of both the EU desire to diffuse its norms and of its need to adapt to a new international context. In this way, norm entrepreneurship becomes also a reaction to norm subsidiarity and makes it imperative for the European Union to use new norms if it is to keep its normative identity. We are witnessing a shift from a world in which the EU diffuses norms to other actors and regions, to a world in which the EU norms are perceived, interpreted and sometimes challenged, sometimes rejected and replaced by new ones.
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Tunstall, Allcock Thomas. "Thomas C. Mann and Latin America, 1945-1966." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606911.
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This dissertation provides a detailed examination of the influence of Thomas Clifton Mann on the Latin American policy of the United States of America. A Foreign Service Officer from 1942, Mann eventually rose to the position of Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, and was President Lyndon Johnson’s most valued adviser on inter-American policy until his retirement from government service in May 1966. Commonly portrayed as highly conservative, insensitive to Latin American needs, and opposed to U.S. aid programs, Mann was a far more complex character than his critics have allowed. During the Eisenhower administration Mann’s influence was vital in reorienting policy priorities in Washington, emphasising the need for price stabilisation measures and limited development aid. During the Kennedy administration he opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion, before serving as Ambassador to Mexico where he successfully resolved the nation’s longest running border dispute. Most influential under Lyndon Johnson, Mann sought to place U.S. policy on a stable and sustainable path, reining in unrealistic expectations while fending off attacks from fiscal conservatives opposed to aid measures of any kind. In studying Mann’s career, much is revealed regarding the nature of U.S.-Latin American relations during a crucial period of history. While U.S. goals remained largely consistent, the nature of the challenges faced and the tactics used to counter them did not. Mann’s career saw the Cold War come to Latin America, and was met with both aid and military intervention, often in the form of counterinsurgency training and operations. Mann’s role in developing those polices reveals the contrasts and, more often, consistencies between the administrations he served, and undermines claims that the transition from Kennedy to Johnson witnessed a radical policy overhaul. Studying Mann’s career also illuminates divisive internal debates over the nature and meaning of inter-American relations, and the role and influence of an individual within Washington’s policymaking bureaucracy.