Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations
Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?
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Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations
Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?
About This Book
Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant effects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors.
The second edition of Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on U.S. neighbors near and far —Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country's relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country's bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. The book also features new chapters on transnational criminal violence, the Latino diasporas in the United States, and U.S.-Latin American migration. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.
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1 The Changes in the International System since 2000
Three International Systems Break Down
The Tsar of Russia never recovered … the dominant position which was his at the moment of Napoleon’s abdication … He believed that he alone among monarchs was the interpreter and champion of the principles of Christian liberalism … [and] he imagined that the rocks of national interest could in some way be melted … by the unguents of his volatile benignity. 1
- An anchor state of the international system had been thoroughly defeated.
- A powerful empire had fragmented.
- The structure of the international system turned sharply asymmetrical, to the benefit of the winning coalition.
- International history had been the history of national interest. Now, that history had ended. The newly hegemonic coalition affirmed the universal validity of its ideology as a basis for legitimacy, as the standard to seek the compliance of others, and as a rationale to intervene in the domestic affairs of other countries. This exercise of power would be portrayed as benign and good even for the country targeted for intervention.
- The behavior of the leading victorious power undermined its triumph soon after victory. The volatility of the new leading power’s behavior contributed to its loss of primacy.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Frontmatter
- Halftitle Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgement
- List of contributors
- 1 The Changes in the International System since 2000
- 2 U.S.–Mexican Relations: Coping with Domestic and International Crises
- 3 The United States and Cuba: Intimate Neighbors?
- 4 U.S.–Argentine Relations: The Years of Cristina and Obama
- 5 The Unsettled Nature of U.S.–Brazilian Relations
- 6 Chile and the United States: A Cooperative Friendship
- 7 Colombia and the United States: The Path to Strategic Partnership
- 8 U.S.–Peruvian Relations: Cooperation within the International System of the Twenty-First Century
- 9 U.S.–Venezuelan Relations after Hugo Chávez: Why Normalization Has Been Impossible
- 10 Latino Diasporas, Obama’s Executive Action Strategy, and U.S.–Latin American Relations
- 11 Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Criminal Violence in U.S.–Latin American Relations
- 12 U.S. Immigration Policy: Politicization and Impasse
- Index