Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations

by Larosa, Michael J.; Mora, Frank O.

• ISBN13: 9780847693962
• ISBN10: 0847693961
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The history of U.S.-Latin American relations has been marked by a complex fusion of tension, misperception, intervention, and cooperation. Providing a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive text reader traces the troubled relationship from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The readings are framed by the editors' opening chapter on U.S.-Latin American relations and introductory essays for each part and each selection.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: ``Contentious Friends in the Western Hemisphere,''	1	(18)
Michael LaRosa
Frank O. Mora
PART I Disparate Perceptions: Expansionism Versus Arielismo	19	(40)
``The Anglo-Saxon and the World's Future,''	21	(10)
Josiah Strong
Ariel	31	(10)
Jose Enrique Rodo.
``Wild People in Wild Lands: Early American Views of Latin Americans,''	41	(18)
Fredrick Pike
PART II The Nineteenth Century: The Monroe Doctrine and Origins of U.S. Expansionism	59	(34)
``The Real Monroe Doctrine,''	63	(10)
Elihu Root
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823--1826	73	(12)
Dexter Perkins
Autopsy of the Monroe Doctrine: The Strange Story of Inter-American Relations	85	(6)
Gaston Nerval
The Platt Amendment of 1901	91	(2)
PART III From TR to FDR: Interventionism and the Good Neighbor Policy	93	(32)
``Development of the Panama Policy in the Caribbean and Central America (1902--1936),''	95	(6)
Samuel Flagg Bemis
``An Address to Congress on the Mexican Crisis (April 20, 1914),''	101	(4)
Woodrow Wilson
The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy	105	(8)
Bryce Wood
Inevitable Revolutions	113	(12)
Walter LaFeber
PART IV Revolutions and Intervention: The United States in Bolivia, Guatemala, and Cuba	125	(46)
The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America	129	(16)
Cole Blasier
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala	145	(10)
Stephen Schlesinger
Stephen Kinzer
``Did Eisenhower Push Castro into the Arms of the Soviets?''	155	(16)
Alan Luxenberg
PART V The Cold War: Dictatorship, Development, Debt, Drugs, and Central America	171	(78)
``Latin America as a Problem in United States Foreign Policy,''	177	(26)
George Kennan
The Alliance That Lost Its Way: A Critical Report on the Alliance for Progress
Jerome Levinson
Juan de Onis
``The Debt Crisis and Economic Development,''	203	(16)
Riordan Roett
``Dope and Dogma: Explaining the Failure of U.S.-Latin American Drug Policies,''	219	(18)
Bruce M. Bagley
Juan G. Tokatlian
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua	237	(12)
Robert Pastor
PART VI A New Relationship in the 1990s: Benign Neglect or Engagement?	249	(66)
``Latin America Alone?''	253	(4)
Mark Falcoff
``United States Policy Toward Latin America: A New Era of Benign Neglect?''	257	(8)
Howard J. Wiarda
``Rediscovering Latin America,''	265	(12)
Abraham F. Lowenthal
``NAFTA ... and After: A New Era for the U.S. and Latin America?''	277	(10)
Peter Hakim
Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report	287	(28)
Richard E. Feinberg
Official Documents of the Summit of the Americas (December 1994):
``Fourteen Summit Agenda Initiatives Presented by the United States to Governments of the Hemisphere''	301	(7)
``The Summit of the Americas Declaration of Principles''	308	(5)
``The Summit of the Americas Plan of Action''	313	(2)
Selected Bibliography	315	(12)
Credits	327	(2)
Index	329	(16)
About the Editors	345