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  • Soviet-Latin American Relations In The 1980s

    by Augusto Varas ...
    Soviet involvement in Latin America has been defined by U.S. policymakers as disruptive of the regional political and security order, and U.S. policy has been formulated to prevent the escalation of Soviet presence in the region. In this volume, Latin American scholars provide case studies of the economic, political, and military influence of the S ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Militarization And The International Arms Race In Latin America

    by Augusto Varas ...
    Military conflicts and dictatorships in Latin America are the main consequences of the increasingly autonomous role of the armed forces in the region, asserts noted scholar Augusto Varas, and international factors related to the expansion of weapon industries in the North and the increasing flow of financial resources to Latin America are accelerating the arms race. Varas discusses the historical ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Hemispheric Security And U.s. Policy In Latin America

    Edited by Augusto Varas ...
    This book analyzes the evolution of inter-American security relations in recent decades, providing a variety of views on these topics from the United States and Latin America. It includes an analysis of regional security interactions around Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. . ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The United States and Latin America in the 1990s

    Beyond the Cold War

    Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, Augusto Varas ...
    “A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.” — American Political Science Review“These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American relations very clearly. The authors address their themes with subtlety and insight, in this first overall ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Cuban Communism, 1959-2003

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  • Understanding Brazil - United States Relations

    by Monica Hirst ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    The Brazil-United States relations represent a huge potential, but in recent decades have suffered from lack of communication and understanding between academics and policymakers from both countries. This book goes a long way towards demystifyingthis relationship. Covering from the final decades of the 19th century until the period of the Rousseff and Obama administrations,the work apprehends the ... Read more

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

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  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later.Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

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  • Latin American Foreign Policies

    Between Ideology and Pragmatism

    by Peter Lambert ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests. ... Read more

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  • Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War

    by Tanya Harmer ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende’s democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende’s left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ... Read more

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  • A World to Build

    New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism

    by Marta Harnecker ...
    Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America’s most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker draws on lessons from socialist movements in Latin America, especially Venezuela, where she ... Read more

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