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As a platform for scholarly research and analysis, Global Americans is proud to host a regular series of book reviews and interviews with authors on the most pressing topics in the region. Here, you can read our latest reviews and see our archive of past content. If you are a book publisher or author interested in having your book reviewed, please contact our Research Fellow, Scott MacDonald.

A Global Americans Review of The Military of the Caribbean: A Look at the Defense Forces of The Anglo Caribbean, 1958-2022

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith | March 30, 2023

The book’s intent is to describe “the origin, structure, recruitment, training, and roles of the contemporary military organizations in the Anglo ...
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A Global Americans Review of Escaping the Governance Trap

Scott B. MacDonald | February 7, 2023

According to Shenai, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are entangled in a governance trap, which he defines as “a path-dependent equilibrium in which ...
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A Global Americans Review of The American Imperative

Robert (Bo) Carlson | January 19, 2023

[Runde's] view of international development is transformational, where outside assistance can catalyze internal reforms and lead to broad-based economic growth.
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A Global Americans Review of Managing New Security Threats in the Caribbean

Scott B. MacDonald | November 21, 2022

Chami, Teelucksingh, and Anatol have produced a timely and thought-provoking book that has taken a step forward in pulling together broad strands of ...
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A Global Americans Review of The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith | October 5, 2022

The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean offers an exceptional study of contemporary Caribbean geopolitics and geoeconomics, with appropriate attention ...
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A Global Americans Review of Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro

Scott B. MacDonald | September 28, 2022

Lapper’s Beef, Bible and Bullets provides an excellent guide through Brazil’s current political complexities and the man who would be Trump. It is ...
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A Global Americans Review of Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

Scott B. MacDonald | July 6, 2022

Neuman has done an excellent job in capturing the grittiness of a country that has gone off the developmental tracks. I highly recommend this book to ...
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Nonalignment and the Summit of the Americas: A Global Americans Review of El no alineamiento activo

Robert (Bo) Carlson | June 2, 2022

To understand why so many countries will be absent from the Summit of the Americas, Latin America observers would do well to read El no alineamiento ...
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Slave Rebellions in the Caribbean: A Global Americans Review of Island on Fire and Blood on the River

Scott B. MacDonald | February 1, 2022

Both books capture the nuances of enslaved people’s struggle for freedom against brutally exploitative systems.
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A Global Americans Review of Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico: How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle

Scott B. MacDonald | January 20, 2022

How did Puerto Rico, once described as an “economic miracle” end up in such dire straits?
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