Edited by: Roberto Russell
Published by: Taurus
This is one of the two volumes about Argentina that correspond to the Fundación Vidanta project "The Bicentennial Opportunity: Judgment and Portraits, 1910-2010". The book brings together five essays written by: Carlos Altamirano, Pablo Gerchunoff, Luis Alberto Romero, Roberto Russell and Juan Carlos Torre. The works trace a critical synthesis of the century, with its dramas, achievements, illusions and disenchantments.
Edited by: Natalio Botana
Published by: Taurus
The work brings together a collection of essays approaching various aspects of the political, social, economic, ethical and cultural reality of Argentina. Its authors are: Natalio Botana, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Roberto Cortés Conde, Karina Galperín, Osvaldo Guariglia, Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, Manuel Mora y Araujo, Carlos Pérez Llana and Julio María Sanguinetti.
Edited by: Ricardo Lagos
Published by: Taurus
Cien años de Luces y Sombras (100 Years of Light and Shadows) is a work in two volumes, which offers an evaluation of the second Chilean century and a forward-looking reflection on the main challenges and opportunities that Chile will face in the coming years. Its authors are: Sol Serrano, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, Alfredo Riquelme, Cecilia Osorio, Manuel Antonio Garretón, Fernando Reyes Matta, Juan Emilio Cheyre, Oscar Landarretche M., Patricio Meller, Osvaldo Larrañaga, Cristián Bellei, Víctor Pérez, Sonia Montecino, Fernando Sáez and Carlos.
Edited by: María Teresa Calderón e Isabela Restrepo
Published by: Taurus
This work brings together six essays written by specialists and leading personalities who make a critical synthesis of the second Colombian century: Eduardo Posada Carbó, Daniel Pécaut, José Antonio Ocampo, Rodrigo Pardo, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian and Renán Silva.
Edited by: Érika Ruiz Sandoval
Published by: Taurus
The work brings together eight essays written by: Nicolás Alvarado, Gerardo Esquivel, Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo, Fausto Hernández Trillo, Alejandro Moreno, Érika Ruiz Sandoval, Pedro Salazar Ugarte, Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez. With a discerning eye, disenchanted and lucid, they present a series of reflections on the path that Mexico could take in politics, economics, international relations and culture.
Edited by: María Amparo Casar y Guadalupe González
Published by: Taurus
The work brings together six prominent researchers Mexicans who analyze the trajectory followed by Mexico between 1910 and 2010. The authors offer various essays on: politics, the economy, society, international relations, justice and security, and thought and culture in Mexico. They are: María Amparo Casar, Francisco Suárez Dávila, Federico Reyes Heroles, José Ramón Cossío, Guadalupe González and Héctor Aguilar Camín, respectively.
Edited by: Jorge I. Dominguez and Michael Schifter
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in July, the book Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America appeared. The work, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, contains four thematic studies and eight country studies that were elaborated within the framework of the research project "Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America" sponsored by the Fundación Vidanta.
Edited by: Cynthia J. Arnson, Jorge Heine and Christine Zaino
Published by: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
The work brings together a collection of research that was carried out within the framework of the Project "Asia and Latin America in the new century" and has the sponsorship of the Fundación Vidanta.
Oxford University Press published in 2008 the English version of the book compiled by Francis Fukuyama The Gap Between Latin America and the United States.
Oxford University Press published in 2008 the English version of the book compiled by Francis Fukuyama The Gap Between Latin America and the United States. Political and Institutional Determinants of Economic Development. The book, which collects the revised versions of the international seminar sponsored by the Fundación Vidanta in the city of Buenos Aires in November 2005, was called Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America.
The Gap Between Latin America and the United States. Political and Institutional Determinants of Economic Development.
The Foundation's first book collects the revised versions of the papers presented at the International Seminar "The Gap Between Latin America and the United States. Political and Institutional Determinants of Economic Development", held in Buenos Aires on November 10 and 11, 2005. Compiled by Professor Francis Fukuyama and edited by Fondo de Cultura Económica, it appeared in December 2006.
The Foundation's second book was compiled by Ricardo Lagos and brings together the reflections of prominent analysts and academics international scholars on Latin American international relations. It was published in Buenos Aires by Editorial Edhasa in August 2008.
Edited by: Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University, USA and Rafael Fernández de Castro
Published by: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, México
The second edition of the book focuses on the relations of the United States with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. The book also includes new chapters on transnational criminal violence, Latin diasporas in the United States and migrations of Latin Americans to the United States.
Edited by: Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro, Routledge, New York, 2010.
This book brings together a collection of essays on the relations of various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the United States in the last decade. Its authors are: Cynthia Arnson, Javier Corrales, Jorge Domínguez, Cristina Eguizábal, Rafael Fernández de Castro, Claudia Fuentes Julio, Mónica Hirst, Anthony Maingot Cynthia McClintock, Francisco Rojas Aravena, Carlos Romero, Roberto Russell, Arlene Tickner and Fabián Vallas.
Within the framework of the project, seven Public Policy and Social Intervention Reports on Migration were published with recommendations for social actions and public policies. Each report was prepared by a pair of authors with specific action proposals aimed at triggering possible public-private-social collaboration schemes for working with migrants and caring for their families.
Published by: Temas Magazine
The dynamics of production and cultural life in cities, the interactions between supply and consumption, the role and participation of the public and state, private and mixed institutions, the challenges of cultural management, are brought together in this issue of Temas sponsored by the Fundación Vidanta. Through this window, life in the city is revealed as a complex phenomenon, where the market, community projects, immigration, and even the audiovisual and literary images of its real inhabitants, who reproduce and imagine it, converge in places like Ecuador, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Europe and Cuba.
View publicationThe work analyzes the obstacles that Latin America faces to narrow the gap in economic development with developed countries. Despite these obstacles, it concludes that we have "the duty of optimism" and that the gap "can be narrowed."