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Latin America and the U.S. National Interest

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Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the U.S. National Interest: A Basis for U.S. Foreign Policy

Margaret Daly Hayes

Arguing for a new and sober look at the nature of U.S.-Latin American relations, Dr. Hayes addresses the question: Does the United States have compelling national interests in maintaining close relations with Latin American countries? Her conclusion is yes, but for reasons different from those offered in the traditional literature or espoused by many policy analysts. She maintains that U.S. interests in relations with Latin America are primarily political, secondarily economicthough economic ties are the basis of the relationshipand only marginally military. Proper emphasis on these long-term interests may be critical to U.S. national security in a global, as well as regional, context.

Dr. Hayes points out that the Latin American countriesoccupying a unique position among developing nations today because of their comparatively successful experiences in achieving economic growth and developmentrepresent an increasingly important political influence in both the developed and developing worlds. Moreover, she argues, it is in the U.S. interest to give economic aid to the less-developed countries in the hemisphere, particularly in the Caribbean Basin: U.S. security is better preserved and enhanced by encouraging political and economic stability in the region than by promoting military alliances that Latin Americans may not really want.

Supporting the need for a revised rationale for U.S.-Latin American relations, Dr. Hayes focuses in detail on the regions and nations of special interest to the United States today: the Caribbean Basin, Mexico (in a chapter by Professor Bruce M. Bagley), Brazil, and the Southern Cone.

Dr. Margaret Daly Hayes is a member of the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Previously she was director of the Center of Brazilian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Hayes, Margaret Daly.

Latin America and the U.S. national interest.

(Westview special studies on Latin America and the Caribbean)

Bibliography: p.

1. United States--Foreign economic relations--Latin America. 2. Latin America-
Foreign economic relations--United States. I. Title. II. Title: Latin
America and the US national interest. III. Series.

HF1456.5.L3H38 1984 337.7308 83-27389

ISBN 0-86531-462-4

ISBN 0-86531-547-7 (pbk.)

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01954-9 (hbk)

Contents

, Bruce M. Bagley

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This study was initially undertaken for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, in response to a request to examine Latin Americas national security importance to the United States. The original manuscript was completed while I was Associate Director of the Center of Brazilian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. That draft has been substantially updated and changed both in response to new circumstances in Latin America and to evolution in my own thinking about U.S. interest in the region.

Acknowledgment is owed to many persons who have influenced my thinking on U.S.-Latin American relations and the content of this study. Professor Albert Fishlow of Yale University contributed valuable time to an intensive discussion of the economics of U.S.-Latin American relations, and the lessons of that tutorial are reflected in as well.

Professor Bruce M. Bagley of The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies not only contributed the chapter on Mexico, but also served as a sounding board for the development of ideas in other chapters. Dr. A. W. Tony Gray, Cdr., USN (Ret.), and the Latin American seminar of the National War College have provided many useful comments and critiques of the regional chapters, as well as of the chapter on U.S. security interests. All of these persons have contributed in no small part to the substance of this report. However, I accept full responsibility for errors of omission or commission in the final product.

A number of persons helped in the preparation of this manuscript. Several students of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, including Julia Michaels, John D. Greenman, Serge DAdesky, Cindy Steel, and Enid Miller-Amaya, assisted in the gathering of data for this project. Dan Davis of Georgetown University undertook the burden of updating all the economic and trade data for this final version. Very special thanks go to Ms. Priscilla Taylor of Editorial Experts, Inc., whose editing vastly improved my prose, and Ms. Jean Spencer, also of EEI, who cheerfully and patiently waded through multiple drafts and corrections. Patricia Walbridge contributed the graphics work to the book. Lynne C. Rienner of Westview Press encouraged me to undertake the revision and redraft for publication and waited patiently through many delays for the final product.

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