Critical responses to neoliberal globalization in the Mercosur region: Roads towards cosmopolitan democracy?

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-71

  Patomäki, Heikki ^a   Teivainen, Teivo ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic public space; Cosmopolitan democracy; Globalization; Latin America; Trans regionalism; Transnational neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036005211     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290110101144     Document Type: Article

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