Mila Gascó Hernández (ed.), Latin America Online: Cases, Successes and Pitfalls (Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2007), pp. xxiii+361, US$94.95, $79.95, pb.
insets on nuclear weapons programmes in the Southern Cone, on anti-Americanism, on the theories and debates of institutionalism and realism, and on the OAS, amongst others. And throughout the book, each chapter ends with a list of discussion points, useful websites, and recommended reading, a useful and timeefficient resource for student and teacher alike. Equally usefully, amongst the appendices are an extensive glossary, which runs from absolutism to Zapatista, and a list of dramatis personae, both clearly set out and are a boon to the student no matter what their level of knowledge or confusion may be. As O’Toole notes in his preface, it is perhaps somewhat ironic that in order to complete this book, he has been ‘exiled ’ from the classroom. If so, the exile has been worthwhile. This is a volume which will become invaluable to those attempting to guide the neophyte through the maze of politics in Latin America, and I suspect that it will, over time, become just as much of a core reading as Skidmore and Smith has become for many a student of Latin American politics and history.