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The 33 countries that constitute Latin America and the Caribbean and the 11 countries of the former Soviet Union (not counting the Russian Federation and the three Baltic nations) conform 44 states which are, with a few exceptions, on the periphery of global geopolitical aff airs, with limited international infl uence or at the mercy of confl icts that have disrupted their internal balance and international image in the past decade. While the topic of how peripheral nations and regions interact with each other has been analyzed in academia, in-depth studies about relations between these specifi c regions are very limited and scarce. This paper seeks to fi ll in that gap by providing recent examples on issues like trade and high-profi le diplomatic visits between Latin American and Caribbean governments with their post-Soviet counterparts. Moreover, I will discuss the issue of the location (or lack thereof) of embassies, a topic not discussed in the consulted literature, as an example of how governments from peripheral states and limited budgets decide where to open an embassy. It is proposed here that the 44 states that make up Latin America, the Caribbean, and the post-Soviet world will remain cordial and friendly strangers for the foreseeable future. A lack of grand-strategy vision, with a few exceptions, is a major hindrance to stronger relations between these states. The most plausible scenario is bloc-to-bloc trade agreements; however, the COVID-19 pandemic and more pressing issues that these countries face mean that treaties with geographically distant states that are not trading partners or potential sources of fi nancial aid are not regarded as priorities.

This special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology entitled 'Beyond Revolution: Reshaping Nationhood through Senses and Affects' is guest edited by Myriam Lamrani.

Tom Barnes. 2018. Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 261pp., £31.99. ISBN: 9781108433792.

Empathy is the cornerstone of healthy relationships and the ability to navigate complex social situations. The cognitive system that produces empathy, the left ventral striatum, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, and supplemental motor area, motivates cooperation with others. Indications that empathy is on the decline should concern each individual because it is essential for our social and emotional wellbeing. Without empathy, we lose the ability to be compassionate. Empathy is many things, explaining why it can produce contradictory outcomes simultaneously. The evolutionary mandate of empathy might be the source of racial strife as well as the key to achieving racial harmony.

This special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology entitled 'Witnessing: truths, technologies, transformations' is guest edited by Liana Chua and Omri Grinberg.

In Tyson et al You Have to Control It However You Can": Type 2 Diabetes Management in a Hispanic Farmworker Community in Rural Florida, they argue that political and economic factors affect rural Hispanic farmworkers in Florida who use self-managed health care practices. These practices are primarily more fitness, herbal remedies, controlling their emotions, eating healthier and taking prescriptions. The local clinic in Florida in West-Central Florida noted that due to the diabetes management in poor socioeconomic standards the Hispanic community has poor glycemic control and those few who are able to get the donated insulin, later, resort to other oral medications. However, the ability to not afford healthcare is just one of the barriers that the rural Hispanic farmworkers in Florida face.

The Great Sham of the California State University System

This special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology entitled 'Capture, Autonomy, Dependence: Theorising Global Energy Futures from Africa' is guest edited by Michael Degani, Brenda Chalfin and Jamie Cross.

This article suggests a new conceptual framework for understanding why some types of work are experienced in more satisfying ways than others. The analysis is based on research in an Indian scrap metal yard, where work entails disassembling things that other people no longer want. In spite of the demanding conditions of the labor and the social stigma attached to it, employees express satisfaction with the work process. This observation raises questions about theories of labor, which see satisfaction as arising from work that is creative, skilled, and task-based. The article argues that transformation is a social process that should be used as the primary analytic for explaining work satisfaction. Theories of creativity, skill, and task are secondary analytics that describe subsets of transformative action.