This edited collection is only the second academic publication dedicated solely to Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America ALBA the Left Turn regional project founded by Venezuela and Cuba in 2004 and since expanded to Bolivia Ecuador Nicaragua and much of the Anglophone Caribbean. As ALBA celebrates its first decade this book offers a considered critical and comprehensive account of the project. This work provides insights into all manner of unanswered questions among others the roles and involvement of memberstates both central and peripheral the nature of ALBA governance the sustainability of the project its effect on domestic politics and the true nature and extent of specific initiatives.