From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. By Alison Brysk. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 400p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

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From Tribal Village to Global Village does an excellent job of showing how indigenous peoples in Latin America have gone from victims to protagonists in struggles to control their own fate. Like Alison Brysk's previous work on human rights activities in Argentina during the “dirty war,” this book investigates political dynamics involving nonstate actors at the interface between international relations and comparative politics. Key to these dynamics is the idea that “above all, globalization involves the growing presence, use, and salience of information both in national and local struggles and as a newly significant arena of international relations” (p. 12).