WHAT IF LATIN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD?: HOW THE SOUTH WILL TAKE THE NORTH INTO THE 22ND CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 02000010B43631
English Summary/英文概要： For most Europeans and Americans, Latin America is still little more than their underdeveloped sibling, its inhabitants pitching up on its shores or struggling across the Rio Grande into the USA. It’s a place of exuberant music, mesmerising football, extravagant beauty, fantastic literature, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare – in short, exotic, dangerous and exciting.
In this counterintuitive and fascinating book, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, who teaches international Law and International Affairs at London University, shows how, unafraid to turn its back on some commonly held economic views that have now lost their currency, Latin America is in fact making its presence felt from Lima to Shanghai, from Brazilia to London and from Buenos Aires to New York.
While the world acknowledges the continuing importance of the US in international affairs, few people have noticed that with Spanish language and culture in the ascendant the US is quietly but quickly becoming the next Latin American country. In fact, Guardiola-Rivera argues, the next Barack Obama is as more than likely to be of Latino origin.
Both a hidden history of the modern world from the silver peso (the world’s first truly global currency) to the recent shift away from globalism and an imaginative vision rooted in a sure understanding of the past, What If Latin America Ruled the World? is certain to provoke interest and controversy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 對許多不認識拉丁美洲的人，常會誤以為它是美國腹地的一部份，它的政治、經濟、文化常因美國強權主義而被世界忽略。我們對這塊土地上的瞭解不外乎令人熱血沸騰的足球、熱情外放的音樂、辛辣的食物、動盪不安的政治及社會局勢，簡而言之，它是個充滿異國情調，卻危險及令人興奮的國度。
但是，自十七世紀時當西班牙貨幣比索成為世界上第一個全球性的流通貨幣工具時，拉丁美洲就已是國際社會中重要的一部分，而今天，它擁有六億人口和世界上一些發展最快的經濟體，這些國家可能無法在短時間一枝獨秀或超越美國在世界舞台上的地位，但它的聲音逐漸被聽到，而它的消費者，資源和移民已經漸漸影響到我們（作者在書中更大膽斷言美國的下一位歐巴馬將是來自拉丁裔），它將會成為我們未來一個重要因素！
作者在書中結合過去南美歷史演變及當前全球情勢觀察的結果，作出「如果拉美統治世界」的假設，或許還不是那麼真實，但是可以肯定的是無疑讓讀者已更進一步的認識這些國家。(Vincent)
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“Guardiola-Rivera’s What if Latin America Ruled the World? is as broad in its historic sweep as Galeano’s classic.”---Washington Post
"As the Great Recession rolled across the globe in 2008, the economies of Latin America proved unexpectedly resilient--a happy occurrence that legal scholar Guardiola-Rivera credits to the majority of Latin American societies veering away from the neoliberal paradigm and the shadow of the empire to the north. Guardiola-Rivera puts this remarkable trend among Latin American countries--a category into which the U.S. is destined for inclusion, with its projected Latino majority by 2040--into the historical context of enduring pre-Columbian values and popular resistance to imperialism among the dispossessed of North and South America ."---Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Remarkable, stimulating and illuminating, What if Latin America Ruled the World? is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It makes the reader feel as if they are spinning in a time capsule through a kaleidoscopic virtual reality from one seminal event to another, from one Latin American country to another, and from there to London, New York, Los Angeles and Miami. This is the kind of book the world needs now, and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the perfect man to write it—a breathless rollercoaster ride that also offers a brilliantly creative approach to history and geography.”---Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel García Márquez: A Life
“Oscar Guardiola-Rivera has written a smart, original, provocative, and timely book. He analyzes and pushes beyond the recent leftward turn in Latin American politics and in so doing he offers a hopeful new genealogy of the globalized present.”---Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History
“Part historical reconstruction, part travelogue, part socio-political prognosis, this book is the single best work I have read on why the 21st century will be the “Century of the Americas,” and why the United State is undergoing a quiet and non-violent revolution that is remaking its demographics, as well as its political and economic institutions. Here you will read the history that you were never taught, and why Latin American economies and societies are some of the most vibrant and promising, notwithstanding centuries of exploitation, and why Hispanics are slowly unifying the continent with their post-racial-transnational-cosmopolitan citizenship. This book should be placed next to those of Arciniegas, Galeano, Paz, Ureña, and Zea. Next time Obama, or for that matter any head of state, visits Latin America, this is the book they should be given as a gift. It is certainly one that Hispanics should read if they are interested in why they should not think themselves, or allow themselves to be portrayed, as a problem, but rather as a promise, as a solution, as indispensable forgers of the “America” that is being fashioned for a new century.”---Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University, author of Global Fragments: Latinamericanisms, Globalizations, and Critical Theory
About the Author/作者介绍： Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches International Law and International Affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He also served as an aid to the Colombian Congress, as a consultant for a unit of the United Nations in the region, taught and lectured in law, philosophy, and politics in three continents. He helped to found a think-tank still active in Colombia, dealing with Human Rights, policy, culture, and conflict resolution, and is recognised as one of the foremost younger voices in Latin American philosophy.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera，在英國倫敦大學伯克貝克學院(Birkbeck College)教授國際法及國際事務課程，此外他也擔任聯合國哥倫比亞會議的顧問，是當前拉丁美洲思想文化的新聲之一。
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