Latin America in 2010 : geopolitical shift and strategic ambitions / Alain Rouquié -- Decolonisation in Latin America : its trail-blazing role for decolonisation in other parts of the world / Marcelo G. Kohen and Katherine Del Mar -- Latin America in the League of Nations : Bolívar's dream come true? / Yannick Wehrli -- Shifting position to the global South : Latin America's initiatives in the early years at the United Nations / Corinne A. Pernet -- New transcontinental configurations : the US Latinos / Yvette Sánchez -- Patterns of protest and revolution in Latin America : 1810-1910-2010 / Alan Knight -- Education, citizenship, and decentralization in the Latin American bicentenary : the Chilean case / Oscar Corvalán Vásquez -- Peru : nation-state and multicultural society / José Marín Gonzáles -- Interpretation of self-determination right of indigenous peoples in Colombia after ratification of ILO Convention 169 / Leonardo Rodríguez Pérez -- A political ecology of Latin American forests through time / Marc Hufty -- Rural areas vs. cities in Latin American history / Claude Auroi -- Is growth driven by external demand a solution to economic crises? / Pierre Salama -- Foreign investment in Latin America : between love and hatred / Jorge A. Viñuales and Magnus Jesko Langer -- Latin American regionalism and the role of UN-ECLAC, 1948-2010 / Edgard Moncayo, Philippe de Lombaerde and Oscar Guinea Ibáñez -- NAFTA : springboard or trap? / Christian Deblock -- The religious field in Latin America : autonomy and fragmentation / David Lehmann -- Indigenous peoples in Latin America between assimilation, disappearance, mestizaje and re-emergence : the Argentine case / Sabine Kradolfer -- Afro-Latin Americans and the limits of equal rights : 1810-1910-2010 / Aline Helg -- What shall become of us without any barbarians? : Central American gangs and the utopia of civilization in Latin America / Dennis Rodgers.