Russell Crandall is currently Associate Professor of Politics at Davidson College and a fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has also served as the director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, special assistant for counter-terrorism to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and advisor for Latin American security to the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He is the author of Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama (2006) and Driven by Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia (2002).
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.
