The New Right And The End Of National Liberation

William I. Robinson is associate professor of sociology global, and Latin American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His two most recent books are Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization (Verso Press, 2003), and A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). in the aftermath of the 1980s wars for national liberation. Drawing the region into globalization are maquiladora assembly production, tourism and hospitality, non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAEs) and remittances from abroad. Globalization represents a new and distinct transnational phase in the history of the world capitalist system. To understand how globalization emerged in Nicaragua and El Salvador it helps to cast a deeply historic net. The 500-year history of world capitalism can be divided into four broad epochs: mercantile, classical competitive, multinational corporate and now globalization. All of these epochs involved a re-articulation of Central America to the