Abstract
Shifting attention from Central America’s transatlantic engagements to South America helps explore the less discussed intra-American nature of transatlantic transactions, while also bringing the dominant east-west flows into the twenty-first century. Both dimensions expose several Central American patterns: the global-transatlantic connection, competition between today’s trading blocs resembling those between corporations and empires before, the transatlantic-transpacific marriage being resuscitated, and the growing intra-Latin flows that colonialism and nationalism previously prevented.
Other key findings include: (a) the possible peaking of transatlantic flows, with the faster transpacific trade, and thereby the possibility of a shift from the notion of ‘transatlantic as an end in itself’ to ‘transatlantic as the means to other, more intra-continental and global ends’; and (b) the growing theoretical turbulence as the dominant explanatory frameworks account for less and less of the exploding dynamics.
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Hussain, I. (2018). North-South Transatlantic Trajectories: Comparative South American Experiences. In: Transatlantic Transitions. Global Political Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6608-5_5
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