Reinventing the left in the global South : the politics of the possible /

This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, and most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-conf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sandbrook, Richard
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	New Left > Developing countries. Developing countries > Politics and government > 21st century. Democracy > Developing countries. Right and left (Political science) POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

Table of Contents:

1. Reinventing the left
2. Alternative visions: leftist versus neoliberal paradigms
3. How neoliberalism fails
4. Making history: agency, constraints and realities
5. Pitfalls and promise of the moderate left
6. The radical left: moving beyond the socialist impasse
7. Politics of the possible.