Understanding U.S.-Latin American Relations

Theory and History

Mark Eric Williams

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136645747
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book examines U.S.–Latin American relations from an historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspective. By drawing examples from the distant and more recent past—and interweaving history with theory—Williams illustrates the enduring principles of International Relations theory and provides students the conceptual tools to make sense of inter-American relations. It is a masterful guide for how to organize facts, think systematically about issues, weigh competing explanations, and confidently draw your own conclusions regarding the past, present, and future of international politics in the region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword by Jorge I. Domínguez
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. International Politics and U.S.–Latin American Relations
• 2. U.S.–Latin American Relations and Political Theory
• 3. Foreign Policy Fundamentals: International Systems and Levels of Analysis
• 4. The Expansion of American Power
• 5. Hemispheric Relations through World War II
• 6. The Cold War, Part I
• 7. The Cold War, Part II
• 8. Cold War Challenges to U.S. Hegemony
• 9. Interdependence and Globalization
• 10. Hemispheric Relations in the Twenty-First Century
• Glossary
• Notes
• Credit
• Index