Book Chapters

Aceves López, Liza Elena and Guiseppe Lo Brutto (2016) “Popular Power and Regional Integration: An Analysis of the ALBA-TCP” in Emelio Betances and Carlos Figueroa Ibarra
(Eds.) Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Backer, Larry Cata (2012) “From Colonies to Collective: ALBA, Latin American Integration, and the Construction of Regional Political Power” in B.J.C. McKercher (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft. Abingdon: Routledge. [Online: Available as a blog post] [Accessed on 02/04/14]

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Berron, Gonzalo (2013) “Assessing Social Participation in Integration Processes in South America after a decade of progressive governments” in Gonzalo Berrón, Jenina Joy Chavez, Cecilia Olivet and Graciela Rodríguez (Eds.) Rethinking Regionalisms in Times of Crises. Transnational Institute

Free ebook available at TNI website


Cusack, Asa. K (2018) “ALBA” in Robert E. Looney (Ed.) Handbook of International Trade Agreements: Country, Regional and Global Approaches. Abingdon: Routledge.

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de la Barra, Ximena and Richard A. Dello Buono  (2009) “Regional Integration and the Emancipatory Agenda” in Ximena de la Barra and Richard A. Dello Buono Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region Is Possible. Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield

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Erisman, H. Michael (2011) “Cuba, Venezuela, and ALBA: The NeoBolivarian Challenge” in Gary Prevost and Carlos Oliva Campos (Eds.) Cuban–Latin American Relations in the Context of a Changing Hemisphere. New York: Cambria Press

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Review of the book: Here


Fridell, Gavin (2015) “On the Margins of the Rising South: ALBA and Petrocaribe in the Caribbean” in Kate Ervine and Gavin Fridell (Eds.) Beyond Free Trade: Alternative Approaches to Trade, Politics and Power. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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Girvan, Norman (2011) “ALBA, Petrocaribe and Caricom: Issues in a New Dynamic” in Ralph S. Clem and Anthony P. Maingot (Eds.) Venezuela’s Petro-Diplomacy: Hugo Chavez’s Foreign Policy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida

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Hart-Landsberg, Martin (2013a) “Learning from ALBA and the Bank of the South: Challenges and Possibilities” in Martin Hart-Landsberg Capitalist Globalization. New York: Monthly Review Press (re-print of previously published MR article – please see Academic Papers section)

Hart-Landsberg, Martin (2013b) “ALBA and the Promise of Cooperative Development” in in Martin Hart-Landsberg Capitalist Globalization. New York: Monthly Review Press (re-print of previously published MR article – please see Academic Papers section)

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Review of the book: Here


Herrera, Rémy (2012) “The Dawn of Alternative Regionalization or the Difficult Path to a Multipolar World: Alba, Mercosur, Unasur, ECLAC” in Rémy Herrera Revolutionary Progress in Latin America. Ecuador: Fedaeps.

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Review of the book: Here


Can Gürcan, Efe and Bakiner, Onur (2015) “Post-neoliberal regional integration in Latin America: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA)” in David Kreps (Ed.) Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing pp. 131 – 154

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Muhr, Thomas (2010) “Nicaragua: Constructing the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)” in Ulrike Schuerkens (Ed.) Globalization and Transformation of Social Inequality. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 115 – 133 [Online: Chapter Link] [Accessed on: 04/12/13]

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Muhr, Thomas (2012a) “Reconfiguring the state/society complex in Venezuela” in Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby (eds.) Civil Society and the State in Left-led Latin America: Challenges and Limitations to Democratization. London: Zed Books pp. 19 – 33

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Review of the book: Here


Muhr, Thomas (2012b) “(Re)constructing Popular Power in Our America: Venezuela and the Regionalisation of “Revolutionary Democracy” in the ALBA-TCP Space” in Barry K Gills and Kevin Gray (Eds.) People Power in an Era of Global Crisis: Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 21 – 37

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