"clash of civilizations"?
I am guessing this is a reference to Samuel Huntington's thesis in which he argues that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict
Out of the nine civilizations that Huntington categorizes Latin America is one of them
Does economic liberalization lead to political democracy?
Reminds me of one of Milton Friedman's quotes in which he says that "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom"
China as a major market for Latin American e.-...-po
-China offers Latin American countries an alternative to the IMF
Under pressure from inter-national creditors throughout the 1980s, Latin American leaders imposed far-reaching measures designed to "liberalize" their national economies-reducing -tariff and other barriers to trade, selling state-supported companies to private investors and curtailing deficit spending. Inflation declined and foreign invest-ment increased.
By dependency;
Noting how the dependent countries rely on the dominant country, it is interesting how the dominant countries relied heavily on the dependent countries for wealth
Latin America's economic development was qualitatively different from that of North America and West Europe, and therefore it produced different political results.
Can this statement also be reversed by saying that Latin America's differences in terms of political development produced different economic results?
Were the institutions set up in Latin America different than those in North America?
-Did Latin American states operate more as extractive states than as "Neo-Europes" such as the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia?