03754nam 2200613 450 991082141090332120230803201939.00-292-75461-210.7560/754591(CKB)3710000000092455(EBL)3443725(SSID)ssj0001133600(PQKBManifestationID)11639799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133600(PQKBWorkID)11157444(PQKB)10663911(MiAaPQ)EBC3443725(OCoLC)872114885(MdBmJHUP)muse34489(Au-PeEL)EBL3443725(CaPaEBR)ebr10846039(OCoLC)900214392(DE-B1597)588189(DE-B1597)9780292754614(EXLCZ)99371000000009245520130523d2014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContesting trade in Central America market reform and resistance /by Rose J. SpaldingFirst edition.Austin :University of Texas Press,2014.1 online resource (351 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-292-75459-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.The march to market reform in Central America -- Rule makers and rule takers: negotiating CAFTA -- Resistance: competing voices -- Ratification politics: in the chamber and in the street -- After CAFTA: antimining movements, investment disputes, and new organizational territory -- Electoral challenges and transitions -- Post-neoliberalism and alternative approaches to change.In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length study of the debate over CAFTA, tracing the agreement’s drafting, its passage, and its aftermath across Central America. Rose J. Spalding draws on nearly two hundred interviews with representatives from government, business, civil society, and social movements to analyze the relationship between the advance of free market reform in Central America and the parallel rise of resistance movements. She views this dynamic through the lens of Karl Polanyi’s “double movement” theory, which posits that significant shifts toward market economics will trigger oppositional, self-protective social countermovements. Examining the negotiations, political dynamics, and agents involved in the passage of CAFTA in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, Spalding argues that CAFTA served as a high-profile symbol against which Central American oppositions could rally. Ultimately, she writes, post-neoliberal reform “involves not just the design of appropriate policy mixes and sequences, but also the hard work of building sustainable and inclusive political coalitions, ones that prioritize the quality of social bonds over raw economic freedom.”Free tradeCentral AmericaCentral AmericaCommerceCentral AmericaCommercial policyCentral AmericaForeign economic relationsFree trade382/.91728Spalding Rose J.119703MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821410903321Contesting trade in Central America3998250UNINA