Introduction / Fredrick B. Pike -- The concept of freedom in Latin America / W.R. Crawford -- Sources of revolution : their impact on freedom and reform in Latin America / Fredrick B. Pike -- Political implication of cultural heterogeneity in Latin America / Charles C. Cumberland --...

This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese government's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development, bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a...

pt. 1. Globalization, economic integration, and cultural differences -- pt. 2. Do cultural differences hinder economic globalization? -- pt. 3. Interpreting a cultural distance-economic globalization nexus.