Certain solidarity already existed between countries of Latin-America even before the establishment of modern ways of cooperation. It was – and is – based on the common culture, language, the similar social structure and unsolved problems and last but not least on having a common power ruling them.
Supranational alliances reshape the centre-periphery relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, causing internal fractions in the economic and political links of the continent and claiming for a new geopolitical approach. The author focuses on countries that in fact able to position themselves as semi-peripheries. Mexico supports the US interests thus becoming its subordinated periphery, Brazil has its own ambition for power in the North-South play, thus questions and redefines its relationship to the su
Globalization provides a new dimension in trafficking of men, the modern slavery. In the third world and in certain countries in East Europe – and in the world as general – trafficking of women for the sex industry became a growing business.
on the book of Eszter Bartha: The Road of Workers from Socialism to Capitalism, East Europe 1968-1989. L'Harmattan, Budapest, 2009
Under publication in Novaya i Noveyshaya Istoriya.