WEEK 17: The Hemispheric Context

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REQUIRED
  • Cesar Gaviria, "The future of the hemisphere," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1997, 39 (1):5-11.

  • Sidney Weintraub, "U.S.-Latin American Relations," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1997, 39 (1):59-69.

  • Ian Vasquez, "Washington's dubious crusade for hemispheric democracy," USA Today Magazine, January 1995, 123(2596):54-58.

  • Peter H. Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 235-291.

  • Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Human Rights Advocacy Networks in Latin America," in Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 79-120.

  • Ron Pagnucco, "The Transnational Strategies of the Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America," in Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds., Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), p. 123-35.

  • Susan Kaufman Purcell, "The Changing Nature of U.S.-Mexico Relations," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1997, 39 (1):137-52.

  • David Scott Palmer, "Peru-Ecuador Border Conflict: Missed Opportunities, Misplaced Nationalism, and Multilateral Peacekeeping," in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1997, 39 (1):109-50.
RECOMMENDED
  • Laurence Whitehead, "International Aspects of Democratization," in Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), p. 3-46.

  • Howard J. Wiarda, "Consensus found, consensus lost: disjunctures in US policy toward Latin America at the turn of the century," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1997, 39 (1):13-31.

  • Abraham F. Lowenthal, Exporting democracy: the United States and Latin America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), p. 90-263.

  • Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, and Augusto Varas, The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1992).

  • Peter H. Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 3-234.

  • Howard J. Wiarda, Democracy and Its Discontents: Development, Interdependence, and U.S. Policy in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1995).

  • Richard L. Millett, "The United States and Latin America's Armed Forces: A Troubled Relationship," in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring, 1997, 39 (1):121-36.

  • Richard L. Millett, "Beyond sovereignty: international efforts to support Latin American democracy," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Fall 1994, 36 (3):1-23.

  • Paul Buchanan, "U.S. Defense Policy for the Western Hemisphere," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring, 1996, 38 (1):1-32.

  • Rodolfo de la Garza, "Chicanos and U.S. foreign policy: the future of Chicano-Mexican relations," in Michael L. Krenn, ed., Race and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War (New York: Garland, 1998).

  • Jorge I. Dominguez, International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998).

  • Jeffrey Davidow, "U.S. foreign policy objectives in Latin America and the Caribbean," U.S. Department of State Dispatch, March-April 1997, 8 (3):29-34.

  • Stephen C. Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1984).

  • Nathaniel Davis, The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).

  • Franklin W. Knight, "The state of sovereignty and the sovereignty of states," in Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas: new interpretive essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (New York: Ballantine Books, 1981) OR Octavio Paz, "Mexico and the United States," The New Yorker, September 17, 1979.

 

Title of McLaugher News Hour broadcast on the Summit of the Americas, 1997, Mexicans at the U.S. border, Clinton and President Zedillo of Mexico, and Clinton and President Fujimori of Peru.

 

 

 

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