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Part 1 Old debates and new on globalization and international trade:delinking - Samir Amin's proposal; globalization - Ohmae's proposal; asynthesis of the classical debate between liberals and mercantilists;mercantilism in Latin America; the state vs market debate. Part 2 Systemiccrisis and technological change - a view from Latin America: the productivitycrisis in advanced capitalist countries; the recession in OCDE countries; thecharacteristics of technological change and its impact on Latin America; thesystemic crisis, technological change and its impact on Latin America - ahypothesis and a proposal. Part 3 Trends in industrialization and foreigntrade: the industrialization crisis; Asian industrialisation versusLatin-American industrialization; a note on the process of importsubstitution; the conditions for industrialization; some conclusions. Part 4Globalization, competitiveness and new trade patterns: forms ofcompetitiveness - a new way of saying productivity; globalization; newpatters of world trade; specialization among recently industrializedLatin-American countries compared to Asian ones. Part 5 The export-led growthmodel - the theory, the debate, the evidence: the theory; the debate; LatinAmerica - the long-term evidence; the evidence from 1990 onward; the evidencecountry by country. Part 6 Central America in the global economy: thedevelopment path of Central American countries; elements of the CentralAmerican crisis - the Central American Common Market; systemic factors in theCentral American crisis - raw materials and foreign debt. Part 7 The crisisof the millennium and its expansion: the Asian crisis; interpretations of thecrisis; the systemic crisis and the crisis in productivity - a differentreading of the Asian crisis; the systemic crisis viewed from Latin America;the development of the Asian crisis viewed from Latin America. Part 8 Somephilosophical problems posed by the systemic crisis: information, space andgeography; the French discussion on internationalization; power and the urgenot to know; power, truth and crisis. Part 9 Epilogue - five hypotheses onthe wrong path taken: on liberalization and deregulation in Latin America;problems and results from the absence of choice; on the crisis of the dollar,end of the old international order and the creation of a new one in whichdeveloping countries have no defined role; on ideological exhaustion, socialdisorganization and the crisis of the millennium; on the systemic crisis thathit bottom in 1997 and its effects; on definitive solutions and what willhave to be considered in the South is to have a new, more sustainable order.