Book Reviews Archives - Global Americans

Book Reviews

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 Development and Stabilization in Small Open Economies

Scott MacDonald | June 14, 2023

Worrell’s Development Stabilization in Small Open Economies is highly recommended not only for Caribbeanists, but also those interested in challenges ...
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A Global Americans Review of Resisting Backsliding

Robert (Bo) Carlson | May 15, 2023

Gamboa’s book offers a vital contribution to the academic debate over democratic backsliding. More importantly, it offers practical wisdom. If structural ...
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A Global Americans Review of The Caribbean on the Edge: The Political Stress of Stability, Equality, and Diplomacy

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith | April 5, 2023

The Trinidadian-born author offers the supportable contention that leadership and institutions are crucial variables in the performance matrix of ...
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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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