POS 316416 Latin American Politics 10092006

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics 10/09/2006

• Course status.
• Midterm Exam Review guide posted on course
  website 10/12/06 late evening, discussed at the
  end of class next week.
• Paper description assignment due.
• Hard copy in class, e-copy w/n 24 hours.
• Returned next week next paper assignment
  distributed.
• Lecture/discussion.
• Indigenous rights and Democratization Follow-up.
  
• Peru Sendero Luminoso Indigenous based or
  class based violent rebellion.
• Democratization and transitions 1900-2000(6).
• Rights, Social Conditions, Religion and
  Democratization.
• Follow-up from 10/02/2006.
• CITGO History Boston Sign.
• Washington Post LA Elections Section.
• AAAS Guatemala Study.
• Quick Overview
• Nukes and Latin America.

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• Nuclear Weapons Latin America.
• Nuclear Information Project. 2006. Status .

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• Nuclear Weapons Latin America.
• Nuclear Information Project. 2006. Status .
  Stockpiles Graph.

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• WMD 203 Nuclear Weapons.
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
  (CTBTO).
• IAEA
• World Map of Nuclear Research Reactors.
• International Nuclear Safety Center (US. ANL.)
• World Map of Nuclear Reactors.
• National Resources Defense Council.
• Nuclear Weapons Information.
• Nuclear Information Project.
• Latin America.
• Nuclear Free Zone.
• Treaty of Tlatelolco.
• OPANAL.

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• Smith Chapter 2.
• Transitions to democracy are
• Complex affairs.
• Break down of authoritarian regimes.
• External war.
• Economic crisis.
• Defections from the ruling coalition.
• Summary of Chapter 2.
• Regime transitions did not inexorably lead to
  democracy.
• Most transitions led else where.
• All transitions effected by uncertainty.
• Transition Case Indigenous rights, mobilization
  and Evo Morales.
• Frontline World.

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• Pre-Conquest/Colombia Polities Mayan Polities
  4.

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• Indigenous Mobilization
• Vanden and Prevost, et. al re indigenous rights.
• Contemporary Context.
• Minorities at Risk Dataset.
• LANIC Indigenous Rights Index.
• Democratization/Liberalization.
• Cold War/post Cold-War.
• Globalization.
• Videos. Videos (approx. 5 minutes).
• Sendero Luminso wrap up.
• Questions.
• How are they examples of different patterns of
  Indigenous mobilization?
• Importance of legacy of conquest, or current
  state of economic development and
  democratization?

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• Democratization and Conflict Global and
  Regional (Latin America).
• Marshall, Monty G. and Ted Robert Gurr. Peace and
  Conflict 2005 A Global Survey of Armed
  Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and
  Democracy.

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• Democracy and Indigenous Rebellion.
• Cleary, Matthew R. 2000. Democracy and
  Indigenous Rebellion. Comparative Political
  Studies.

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• Democracy and Indigenous Rebellion.
• Cleary, Matthew R. 2000. Democracy and
  Indigenous Rebellion. Comparative Political
  Studies.

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• Democracy and Indigenous Rebellion.
• Cleary, Matthew R. 2000. Democracy and
  Indigenous Rebellion. Comparative Political
  Studies.

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• Democracy and Indigenous Rebellion.
• Cleary, Matthew R. 2000. Democracy and
  Indigenous Rebellion. Comparative Political
  Studies.

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• Foweraker, Joe, Todd Landman, and Neil Harvey.
  2003. Governing Latin America.

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• Foweraker, Joe, Todd Landman, and Neil Harvey.
  2003. Governing Latin America.

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• Independence.
• Origins of independence movements.
• Decline of Spanish empire.
• Creation of militias by 1800s 80 of soldiers
  in Spanish America American born.
• Military means of advancement for crillos.
• Inspiration of French Revolution?
• Haiti first independent Latin American nation
  1804.
• 1780 rebellion of Tupac Amaru II lineage
  claimed to Incan empire.
• Can be understood separately from inspiration of
  French revolution.
• Bolívar and José de San Martín battle with Spain.
• Independence of Brazil largely peaceful.
• Aftermath of independence.
• Difficult to establish sufficiently developed
  state institutions to integrate national
  territory.
• Relationship of dependence on export of raw
  materials, lack of industrial base.

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• Independence - continued.
• 1850s1880s Pull of the International Economy.
• Post-independence consolidation.
• Foundations laid for integration into world
  economy.
• Ingredients to integration.
• Land resources.
• Labor including encouragement of immigration.
• Massive infrastructure investment especially
  integration of nation through development of rail
  roads.
• 1880-1910.
• European economy takes off increased demand for
  foods and other agricultural products.
• Europeans continue to invest in infrastructure,
  North Americans also begin to invest.
• Elite domination continues but styles of
  leadership moderate.
• Growing middle class/professional class (growing
  not large relative to Europe and North America).

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• Patterns of Change in Latin America 1880s-2004
  (adopted from Skidmore and Smith Modern Latin
  America 2001 Oxford Univ. Press).

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• Patterns of Change in Latin America 1880s-2004
  (Phases 4-5).

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• Global Patterns of Democratization and Regime
  Transition Marshall/Jaggers 2005 - Polity IV
  Country Reports 2003.

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• Global Patterns of Democratization and Regime
  Transition Marshall/Jaggers 2005 - Polity IV
  Country Reports 2003.

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• Global Patterns of Democratization and Regime
  Transition Marshall/Jaggers 2005 - Polity IV
  Country Reports 2003.

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• Global Patterns of Democratization and Regime
  Transition Marshall/Jaggers 2005 - Polity IV
  Country Reports 2003.
• Diffusion of Democratization.
• University of Colorado/NSF. The Spatial and
  Temporal Diffusion of Democracy, 1815-1995.
• Movie of diffusion 1946-1995.

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• Smith Chapter 2.

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• Smith Chapter 2.

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• Smith Chapter 2.

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• Smith Chapter 2.

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• Smith Chapter 2.

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• Smith Chapter 3. ILO 2005 Report.

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• Smith Chapter 2. ILO 2005 Report.

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• Smith Chapter 9.
• Womens Leadership Conference of the Americas.
  2004. Women and Global Leadership.
• 2001. Women and Power in the Americas.

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• Gender Rights Womens Rights. Foweraker et. al
  2003.

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• Equity Class Structure.

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• Equity Class Structure.

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• Equity Class Structure.
• UN Human Development Reports.

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• Next Week (10/16/2006).
• Midterm exam review guide distributed evening of
  October 12th via course website.
• Hard copy of exam review guide distributed in
  class.
• Midterm discussed at the end of class.
• Midterm Exam on 10/23/06.
• Paper descriptions returned in class, or via
  e-mail.
• Next paper assignment distributed in class.