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Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States » Read Now
by Don M. Coerver, Linda B. Hall. 304 pgs.

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Political Policing: The United States and Latin America » Read Now
by Martha K. Huggins. 248 pgs.

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In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America » Read Now
by Kyle Longley. 342 pgs.

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Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean » Read Now
by Robert A. Pastor. 326 pgs.

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In this second edition of Whirlpool, Pastor provides an overview of US Latin American policy under Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, with special attention devoted to the role played by Congress. Next he looks at the recurring challenges faced by the United States -- how the United...
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In this second edition of Whirlpool, Pastor provides an overview of US Latin American policy under Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, with special attention devoted to the role played by Congress. Next he looks at the recurring challenges faced by the United States -- how the United States has tried but often failed to manage succession crises, stop revolutionaries, promote elections, and encourage development. Pastor offers a series of far-reaching policy recommendations for exiting the whirlpool, based on a renunciation of unilateral intervention and a forging of a freer trade area. This second edition is thoroughly updated, with detailed new considerations of the cases of Nicaragua and Mexico in particular, and of the concept of hemispheric community.
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The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War » Read Now
by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, Augusto Varas. 328 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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United States Policy in Latin America: A Decade of Crisis and Challenge » Read Now
by John D. Martz. 414 pgs.

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The Reagan record-the man, the administration, the internal political wars, and the lack of coordination-is thoroughly explicated. The Bush administration, including the Panamanian intervention, is also analyzed. Bilateral relations are illuminated in the essays concerning Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil...
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The Reagan record-the man, the administration, the internal political wars, and the lack of coordination-is thoroughly explicated. The Bush administration, including the Panamanian intervention, is also analyzed. Bilateral relations are illuminated in the essays concerning Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil. Throughout, the writers look to the future to warn us not to dismiss the importance of these countries.
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Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972 » Read Now
by Michael D. Gambone. 277 pgs.

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At the start of the 1960s, revolution in the "Third World" challenged the established order, as discontent with the status quo fueled attempts to revoke colonialism and the strangleholds on power maintained by entrenched local oligarchies. This book examines the causes of revolution in Latin America...
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At the start of the 1960s, revolution in the "Third World" challenged the established order, as discontent with the status quo fueled attempts to revoke colonialism and the strangleholds on power maintained by entrenched local oligarchies. This book examines the causes of revolution in Latin America in the sixties and the various responses crafted to stop it, in particular, the Alliance for Progress, a program which represented the best products of American developmental and counterinsurgency theory. Equally important, however, is an examination of the independent policies implemented by Latin American elites, policies often in direct opposition to those pursued by the U.S.
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Almost Jeffersonian: U.S. Recognition Policy toward Latin America, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by Gregory Weeks. 15 pgs.

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U.S.-Latin American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook » Read Now
by David W. Dent. 555 pgs.

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Teachers, students, experts, policymakers, and citizen activists all should welcome this authoritative, systematic, single-volume sourcebook of who makes foreign policy, how it is made, and what U.S. policy has been since the 1960s. Well-known experts assess all the significant literature and...
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Teachers, students, experts, policymakers, and citizen activists all should welcome this authoritative, systematic, single-volume sourcebook of who makes foreign policy, how it is made, and what U.S. policy has been since the 1960s. Well-known experts assess all the significant literature and research about U.S. policy in the region over the last three decades and analyze the role and procedures of foreign policymaking through regional institutions, key factors and major players in the United States, and special issues such as interventionism, human rights, democratization, and peacekeeping efforts.
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Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations » Read Now
by John E. Findling. 248 pgs.

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"This book is a solid overview that is more concerned with what happened than why it happended, and a work that can be a starting-point for those who want an introduction to US-Central American relations or a dependable reference for the more knowledgeable. Although primarily concerned with getting...
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"This book is a solid overview that is more concerned with what happened than why it happended, and a work that can be a starting-point for those who want an introduction to US-Central American relations or a dependable reference for the more knowledgeable. Although primarily concerned with getting the most important facts recorded, Findling knows when to stop and present interpretative insights (as in his page on the New Deal, which he handles critically and well). Comets come and go, but this book should have a good life as an analysis that serves as a useful reference to a relationship that remains, unfortunately for Central Americans and US foreign policy, too little understood." The International History Review
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The Ordeal of Hegemony: The United States and Latin America » Read Now
by Guy Poitras. 214 pgs.

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The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America, 1910-1985 » Read Now
by Cole Blasier. 342 pgs.

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The Chains of Interdependence: U.S. Policy toward Central America, 1945-1954 » Read Now
by Michael L. Krenn. 232 pgs.

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Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993 » Read Now
by Cynthia J. Arnson. 370 pgs.

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In this expanded and updated edition of the story of the struggles over the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-contra trials and...
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In this expanded and updated edition of the story of the struggles over the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests. She also includes an entirely new chapter that carries the story of the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates to the end of the Bush administration.
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Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992 » Read Now
by William M. LeoGrande. 776 pgs.

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In this book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua and the outbreak of El Salvador's civil war in the late 1970s to the final regional peace...
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In this book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua and the outbreak of El Salvador's civil war in the late 1970s to the final regional peace settlements negotiated a decade later, he chronicles the dramatic struggles - in Washington and Central America - that shaped the region's destiny. LeoGrande's central argument is that our Central American policy was driven by the specter of Vietnam and conflicting views on how to avoid repeating that history. Throughout the book, LeoGrande interweaves three principal thematic threads: how events in Central America came to be considered threatening to the United States, how debates within the executive branch over the appropriate response shaped policy, and how conflicts between the White House and Congress constrained presidential options.
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