Gregory B. Weeks (Charlotte University of North Carolina), Michael E. Allison (Pennsylvania University of Scranton)

U.S. and Latin American Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook offers detailed theoretical and historical analyses essential for understanding US-Latin American relations. Utilizing four international relations theories as a framework, the text recounts the historical background from Latin American independence through the present before examining contemporary issues such as immigration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781009205962
• ISBN-10: 100920596X
• Artikelnr.: 64525483

Autorenporträt

Gregory Weeks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has a long track record of writing clear, accessible, and empirically grounded work on US-Latin American relations and Latin American politics. He is the author of another textbook, Understanding Latin American Politics (2014), and has authored a blog on the topic for fifteen years. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Latin Americanist for fifteen years as well.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Theoretical Context of US - Latin American Relations
2. The Roots of US and Latin American Relations
3. The Rise of US Hegemony
4. The Era of Intervention and the Good Neighbor
5. The Early Cold War Period
6. The Cuban Revolution
7. The Communist Threat and US Intervention
8. Extra-Hemispheric Actors
9. Challenges to US Hegemony
10. Political Economy
11. Human Rights and Democracy
12. Latin American Immigration and US Policy
13. Citizen Insecurity.