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Diana Villiers Negroponte (ed.), The End of Nostalgia: Mexico Confronts the Challenges of Global Competition (Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press , 2013), pp. vii + 208, $26.95; £18.99, pb.
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This competently edited book covers a range of mainly policy issues currently facing Mexico. Like many Brookings publications, it concentrates to a significant extent on questions involving the United States; there are four chapters out of nine that cover broadly international issues. Unfortunately, this topic selection has done nothing to make the work especially interesting. There are a whole series of topics whose inclusion might have added more to the volume than any one of the four discussions of US-Mexican relations. Those that might have been considered include the governance of Mexico City and its importance for the Left in Mexico.
This reviewer also would have liked more discussion of the reasons for the survival and recovery of the Partido...