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Mexico
What Everyone Needs to Know
Roderic Ai Camp
224 pages
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210x140mm
978-0-19-977387-9
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Paperback
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24 November 2011
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- Easy to navigate, accessible Q&A format is ideal for an introduction to Mexico.
- Looks at a wide range of social, political and cultural issues in Mexico today, from the drug war, to the economy and relations with the United States.
- Concise and accessible introduction to Mexico's political history, from colonial period through present day.
- Demonstrates how important historical moments have shaped current Mexican culture and politics.
Today most would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer—that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. They are less neighbors than siblings; no matter the differences, they are intricately a part of each others' existence.
In this outstanding contribution to Oxford's acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know, Roderic Ai Camp gives readers the most essential information about America's sister
republic to the south. Camp organizes chapters around major themes—security and violence, economic development, foreign relations, the colonial heritage, and more. He asks questions that take us beyond the headlines: Why does Mexico have so much drug violence? What was the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement? How democratic is Mexico? Who were Benito Juárez and Pancho Villa? What is the PRI (the Institutional Revolutionary Party)? The answers are sometimes surprising. Despite ratification of NAFTA, for example, Mexico has fallen behind Brazil and Chile in economic growth and rates of poverty. Camp explains that lack of labor flexibility, along with low levels of transparency and high levels of corruption, make Mexico less competitive than some other Latin American countries.
The drug trade, of course, enhances corruption and feeds on poverty; approximately 450,000 Mexicans now work in this sector. But Camp reveals that President Calderón's recent assault on narcotics smugglers—and the violence resulting from it—may have actually lessened the government's control of parts of the country and national institutions.
Brisk, clear, and informed, Mexico: What Everyone Needs To Know offers a valuable primer for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of America's neighbor to the South.Readership: General readers and students interested in Mexican culture, history and politics, as well as readers of current events and foreign affairs.
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Roderic Ai Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College Roderic Ai Camp is Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mexican Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in teh Smithsonian Institution. His books include Politics in Mexico and The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico.
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Acknowledgements
Political Map of Mexico
List of Tables
Introduction
Part I: Major Issues Facing Mexico Today
1: Security and Violence in Mexico
2: Mexico's Economic Development
3: Mexico's Political Development
4: Foreign Relations with the United States
5: Mexico's Social Development
Part II: Historical Legacies
6: Mexico's Colonial Heritage
7: The National Period and the Rise of Liberal/Conservative Conflicts
8: The Mexican Revolution and a New Political Model for Mexico
9: Mexico's Democratic Transition
Part III: Mexico's Present and Future
10: Mexico's Democratic Consolidation
Further Consolidation
11: Cultural, Economic, and Social Developments
12: What Lies Ahead?
Chronology of Mexican Presidents, 1964-2012
Selected Suggested Readings in English
Index
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