The European Union and the Destruction of the Rhineland Frontier. By Michael Loriaux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 350p. $34.99
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ECLAC’s policy prescriptions seems even less tenable. After all, this was a region that for most of the 1990s was firmly in the neoliberal camp. More importantly, even to the extent that leftist presidents (such as Lula in Brazil) came to power, their ability to change the status quo was fairly limited. While the author is keen to blame these failures on the intellectual retreats of neostructuralism, his analysis does not sufficiently address the obvious alternative explanation—that they were pragmatic responses to the domestic and international constraints facing Latin American reformers. Therefore, the reader is left with a lot of important unanswered questions about the politics underlying the ideological retreat of neostructuralism, both at ECLAC—the intellectual cradle of classical structuralism—and among Latin American policymakers. As a result, it is unclear that Latin American NeoStructuralism succeeds in its stated objective to challenge the neostructuralist claim of being the only viable and credible alternative to neoliberalism in present historical circumstances. While the analysis provides a number of useful insights into the shortcomings of neostructuralism, it is less persuasive in providing a viable alternative, given that neither the revival of classical structuralist policies nor the examples of Bolivia and Venezuela, which Leiva describes as two “theoretically informedandpolitically vibrant . . . statusquotransforming neodevelopmentalist strategies” provide a sufficiently coherent blueprint for such an alternative developmental paradigm (p. 225).That said, the issues raised by the book are likely to be increasingly important as both Latin American politicians and international elites continue to wrestle with the deficiencies of the neoliberal model.
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