The United States and Latin America after the Cold War
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/8/2008
EAN 9780521889469, ISBN10: 0521889464
Hardcover, 276 pages, 23.6 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The United States and Latin America after the Cold War looks at the almost quarter-century of relations between the United States and Latin America since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. An academic and recent high-level US policymaker, Crandall argues that any lasting analysis must be viewed through a fresh framework that allows for the often unexpected episodes and outcomes in US-Latin American relations. Crandall's book examines the policies of three post–Cold War presidential administrations (Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.) through the prism of three critical areas: democracy, economics, and security. Crandall then introduces several case studies of US policy in Latin America, such as Cuba, Brazil, interventions in Haiti, Colombia, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina's financial meltdown.
1. Conceptual
2. Presidential administrations
Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.
3. Democracy
4. Security
5. Economics
6. Washington, the IMF, and financial meltdowns in Latin America
7. Colombia
the narcotization of US policy
8. Blowback
the drug war in Bolivia
9. The United States vs. Hugo Chavez
10. The United States vs. Daniel Ortega
11. Brazil
ally or rival?
12. Castro and Cuba
13. The Haitian dilemma
14. Mexico
15. Conclusion.