Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?

by Domfnguez; Jorge I.

• ISBN13: 9780415880008
• ISBN10: 0415880009
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-05-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant affects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors.Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on the near-neighbors of the United States'”Mexico, Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America'”as well as the larger countries of South America'”including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country's relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country's bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

Jorge I. Dominguez is the Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University: He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association.
Rafael Fern¯ndez de Castro has been Chair, Founder, and full-time Professor of the Department of International Studies, Instituto Tecnol=gico Aut=nomo de MTxico (ITAM), Mexico City, since 1991. He is currently on leave to work as President Felipe Calder=n's Foreign Policy Advisor.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Acronyms	p. xvii
The Changes in the International System during the 2000s	p. 1
U.S.-Mexican Relations in the Twenty-First Century	p. 17
The United States and Cuba since 2000	p. 44
The United States and Central America since 2000: Free Trade and Diaspora Diplomacy	p. 64
U.S.-Caribbean Relations: Modifying Traditional Hegemony and Sovereignty in the Caribbean	p. 83
Argentina and the United States: A Distant Relationship	p. 101
Brazil-U.S. Relations: Getting Better All the Time	p. 124
Chile and the United States 2000-2009: From Elusive Friendship to Cooperative Friendship	p. 142
Colombia and the United States: Strategic Partners or Uncertain Allies?	p. 164
The United States and Peru in the 2000s	p. 197
Relations between the United States and Venezuela, 2001-2009: A Bridge in Need of Repairs	p. 218
Index	p. 247
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