With contributions from some of Hemispheres most prominent scholars, this new edition is a fitting encore, covering key contemporary issues such as the emergence of Latin Americas new left, the rise of Chinas regional influence, the scourge of organized crime, and the growing independence of Latin America from the United States. Every chapter combines a depth of historical context with analysis of the urgent issues of today.
William M. LeoGrande, Professor, School of Public Affairs,
American University, USA
Jorge I. Domnguez, and Rafael Fernndez de Castro, together with a team of younger scholars throughout the Americas, have once again produced an up to date and incisive set of essays on the changing dynamics of U.S.Latin America relations in a transformed global context. This timely volume is exceptionally useful for scholars and students alike.
Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern
California and Founding Director, Inter-American Dialogue
Contemporary U.S.Latin American Relations
Drawing on the research and experience of 16 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 countrys relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that countrys 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.
Jorge I. Domnguez is the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and former Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association.
Rafael Fernndez de Castro has been Chair, Founder, and full-time Professor of the Department of International Studies, Instituto Tecnolgico Autnomo de Mxico (ITAM), Mexico City, since 1991.
Contemporary Inter-American Relations
Edited by Jorge I. Domnguez and Rafael Fernndez de Castro
The United States and Mexico
Between Partnership and Conflict
Jorge I. Domnguez and Rafael Fernndez de Castro
The United States and Chile
Coming in from the Cold
David R. Mares and Francisco Rojas Aravena
The United States and Venezuela
Rethinking a Relationship
Janet Kelly and Carlos A. Romero
The United States and Argentina
Changing Relations in a Changing World
Deborah Norden and Roberto Russell
The United States and Peru
Cooperation at a Cost
Cynthia McClintock and Fabian Vallas
The United States and Brazil
A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
Mnica Hirst, with an essay by Andrew Hurrell
The United States and the Caribbean
The Transformation of Hegemony and Sovereignty in the Post Cold War Era
Anthony P. Maingot and Wilfredo Lozano
The United States and Central America
Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility
Mark B. Rosenberg and Luis G. Sols
The United States and Mexico, Second Edition
Between Partnership and Conflict
Jorge I. Domnguez and Rafael Fernndez de Castro
Contemporary U.S.Latin American Relations
Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?
Jorge I. Domnguez and Rafael Fernndez de Castro
The United States and Cuba
Intimate Enemies
Marifeli Prez-Stable, with an essay by Ana Covarrubias
Debating U.S.Cuban Relations
Shall We Play Ball?
Jorge I. Domnguez, Rafael Hernndez and Lorena Barberia
U.S.Venezuela Relations since the 1990s
Coping with Mid-Level Security Threats
Javier Corrales and Carlos A. Romero
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This project, begun in 1997, has led to Routledges publication of 13 books: 10 on U.S. relations with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, and Cuba, two on U.S. relations with Central America and the Caribbean, and the first edition of this collective work. Each book is relatively short and designed to reach a broad audience. The focus has been on the world as it had become since the start of the 1990s that is, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Latin American economic depression of the 1980s, and the emergence of democratic governments everywhere in Latin America outside Cuba. Each book typically has had two authors, one from the United States and one from the partner Latin American country or subregion.
Several related conferences have taken place over the past two decades, the first in 1998 in Mexico City at the ITAM (Instituto Tecnolgico Autnomo de Mxico). Two books have also been published in Spanish and one in Portuguese, and two books other than this one have been also published in English as second editions. Many of the same individuals founded the journal Foreign Affairs en espaol in 2000, subsequently renamed Foreign Affairs Latinoamrica, housed at the ITAM, as a means to sustain an international conversation on these topics.
