The United States and Latin America after the Cold War

This book analyzes diplomatic relations between the United States and Latin America since 1989.

Russell Crandall (Author)

9780521889469, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 September 2008

276 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 map
24.2 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.52 kg

'… a well-rounded work that addresses some of the most important elements of current US policy towards Latin America … Students of US–Latin American relations, as well as policy makers in Washington, will greatly appreciate this work.' Political Studies Review

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.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Hispanic & Latino studies [JFSL4]