LEADER 03754nam 2200613 450 001 9910789285303321 005 20230803201939.0 010 $a0-292-75461-2 024 7 $a10.7560/754591 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092455 035 $a(EBL)3443725 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133600 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11639799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133600 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11157444 035 $a(PQKB)10663911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443725 035 $a(OCoLC)872114885 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34489 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10846039 035 $a(OCoLC)900214392 035 $a(DE-B1597)588189 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292754614 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092455 100 $a20130523d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting trade in Central America $emarket reform and resistance /$fby Rose J. Spalding 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-75459-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn 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.? 606 $aFree trade$zCentral America 607 $aCentral America$xCommerce 607 $aCentral America$xCommercial policy 607 $aCentral America$xForeign economic relations 615 0$aFree trade 676 $a382/.91728 700 $aSpalding$b Rose J.$0119703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789285303321 996 $aContesting trade in Central America$93795737 997 $aUNINA