Russell Crandall

The United States and Latin America after the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889469
• ISBN-10: 0521889464
• Artikelnr.: 24928056

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.