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Book A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America

Download or read book A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America written by Willard Leon Beaulac and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book will be preferred reading for persons in our government who are concerned with diplomacy and aid. It will be invaluable to students of international affairs. And as a case-study of our multibillion-dollar aid program to Latin America it will be of great interest to the American taxpayer. Ambassador to five Latin American countries where aid was one of his principal responsibilities, Mr. Beaulac believes that aid programs can be important to our foreign policy objectives. However, he points out that they can be a form of escapism. He is highly critical of the Act of Bogota and less than enthusiastic about the Alliance for Progress, which, he feels, has tended to increase problems. Yet, Ambassador Beaulac was one of our government's earliest proponents of aid, and he remains an enthusiastic supporter. His advice and suggestions for the future of our aid programs is therefore important and timely.

Book A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America

Download or read book A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America written by Willard Leon Beaulac and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book will be preferred reading for persons in our government who are concerned with diplomacy and aid. It will be invaluable to students of international affairs. And as a case-study of our multibillion-dollar aid program to Latin America it will be of great interest to the American taxpayer. Ambassador to five Latin American countries where aid was one of his principal responsibilities, Mr. Beaulac believes that aid programs can be important to our foreign policy objectives. However, he points out that they can be a form of escapism. He is highly critical of the Act of Bogota and less than enthusiastic about the Alliance for Progress, which, he feels, has tended to increase problems. Yet, Ambassador Beaulac was one of our government's earliest proponents of aid, and he remains an enthusiastic supporter. His advice and suggestions for the future of our aid programs is therefore important and timely.

Book National Security and United States Policy Toward Latin America

Download or read book National Security and United States Policy Toward Latin America written by Lars Schoultz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars Schoultz proposes a way for all those interested in U.S. foreign policy fully to appreciate the terms of the present debate. To understand U.S. policy in Latin America, he contends, one must critically examine the deeply held beliefs of U.S. policy makers about what Latin America means to U.S. national security. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Latin America and the Caribbean written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictator Dilemma

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  • Author : Kirk Tyvela
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2019-05-31
  • ISBN : 0822986507
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book The Dictator Dilemma written by Kirk Tyvela and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictator Dilemma tells the story of US bilateral relations with the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954–1989). Tyvela focuses on how and why that diplomatic relationship changed during the Cold War from cooperation, based on mutual opposition to communism, to conflict, based on clashing expectations concerning democratic reforms and human rights. The policy debates by officials in Washington and in Asunción brought out a tension that has defined US diplomacy for more than a century: how can the United States partner with tyrants while credibly proclaiming to advance a democratic mission in the world? Tyvela argues that the Stroessner regime was symbolic of a broader foreign policy struggle to perpetuate, enforce, and ultimately redefine the importance of friendly dictators to US global and hemispheric interests.

Book The Fractured Continent  Latin America in Close up

Download or read book The Fractured Continent Latin America in Close up written by Willard Leon Beaulac and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sword of Damocles

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  • Author : Jon Kofas
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2002-06-30
  • ISBN : 0313012180
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Sword of Damocles written by Jon Kofas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Chile and Colombia during the 1950s and 1960s, Kofas examines the impact of IMF, World Bank, and U.S. foreign policy on the economies and social and political institutions of Latin America. Far from fostering democracy and social justice, foreign loans and aid were major impediments to these ideals. Symptomatic of systematic underdevelopment, cyclical Third World foreign borrowing and debt crises have been responsible for maintaining the debtor nations integrated into the global market economy, perpetuating their dependency, and maintaining low living standards. Comparing Colombia and Chile, the book examines the complex factors of domestic and international forces that account for structural underdevelopment in the Third World. A study on the historical antecedents of globalism and its impact on the Third World, this book analyzes the interplay between IMF, World Bank, and U.S. foreign policy in shaping the economies of the Third World through loans that are the catalyst to global integration. Through its in-depth look at a complex topic, this book will prove provocative and valuable reading to students of globalization, inter-American relations, international finance, Latin American History, and U.S. diplomatic history.

Book Department of State News Letter

Download or read book Department of State News Letter written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reinterpreting the Banana Republic

Download or read book Reinterpreting the Banana Republic written by Darío A. Euraque and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic 'theory' and its assumption that multinational corporations completely controlled state formation in Central America. Instead, he demonstrates how local society in Honduras's North Coast banana-exporting region influenced national political development. According to Euraque, the reformism of the 1970s, which prevented social and political polarization in the 1980s, originated in the local politics of San Pedro Sula and other cities along the North Coast. Moreover, Euraque shows that by the 1960s, the banana-growing areas had become bastions of liberalism, led by local capitalists and organized workers. This regional political culture directly influenced events at the national level, argues Euraque. Specifically, the military coup of 1972 drew its ideology and civilian leaders from the North Coast, and as a result, the new regime was able to successfully channel popular unrest into state-sponsored reform projects. Based on long-ignored sources in Honduran and American archives and on interviews, the book signals a major reinterpretation of modern Honduran history.

Book Foreign Debt and Underdevelopment

Download or read book Foreign Debt and Underdevelopment written by Jon V. Kofas and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the historical antecedents of Latin America's foreign debt, with a focus on Peru from 1930 to 1970. Written from the dependency theory perspective, the book attributes underdevelopment to chronic debt crises. It emphasizes the multilateral lending agencies' role in shaping Latin America's contemporary political economy, in cooperation with the U.S. government and multinational corporations and Latin America's local elites. This book presents a chapter in Peru's contemporary history targeted for students and scholars of Latin American studies, U.S. diplomatic history, international political economy, political science, and sociology of development. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Hemispheric Economic Integration and U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Good Neighbor Policy to the Alliance for Progress; Peru and Hemispheric Integration: From the Good Neighbor Policy to the Cold War; U.S.-Peru Financial Relations during the Odria Regime; Bankruptcy of Reformism: U.S.-Peru Financial Relations from Prado's Election to the Coup d'Etat of 1968; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Book Pinochet s Economists

Download or read book Pinochet s Economists written by Juan Gabriel Valdes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the "Chicago Boys". It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. After their return to Chile, the "Chicago Boys" took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy implemented in a developing country. The ideological strength of their mission and the military authoritarianism of General Pinochet combined to transform an economy that, following the return to democracy, has stabilized and is now seen as a model for Latin America. This book, written by a political scientist, examines the neo-liberal economists and their perspective on the market. It also narrates the history of the transfer of ideas from the industrialized world to a developing country, which will be of particular interest to economists.

Book News Letter

Download or read book News Letter written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review  1956 1975

Download or read book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review 1956 1975 written by Wilber A. Chaffee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Latin America

Download or read book Introduction to Latin America written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Penetration of Brazil

Download or read book United States Penetration of Brazil written by Jan Knippers Black and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a foreign affairs analyst takes a hard look at the influence that U.S. officials and organizations brought to bear between 1960 and 1976 on the armed forces and police, large corporations, political parties, news media, and regional development agencies of Brazil.

Book Requiem for Revolution

Download or read book Requiem for Revolution written by Ruth Leacock and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Brazilian revolution of 1964 which was not the revolutionary effort that Kennedy had sought. Yet it bore an American, anti-communist imprint. When the president was overthrown, Washington embraced the new regime and gave generous support throughout the 1960s.

Book Understanding Latin America  A Decoding Guide

Download or read book Understanding Latin America A Decoding Guide written by Alfredo Toro Hardy and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances. Little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of Latin-Americans, their cultural identity and social values. Differences between Brazilians and Spanish Americans, or amid the diverse Spanish American countries, are not sufficiently understood. Even less is known about the amplitude of the Iberian heritage of such countries, or about the miscegenation and acculturation processes that took place among their different constitutive races. There is no clarity regarding the Western nature of Latin America or about its cultural affinities with Latin Europe. Nor is there sufficient understanding of the links between the Latin population of the United States and the inhabitants of Latin America.This book aims to fill the gap by focusing on Latin America's history, culture, identity and idiosyncrasies. It serves as a guide to understand regional attitudes, meanings and behavioural differences of the region. It also analyses the present economic situation of the region, while trying to predict the future of the region. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to readers keen on exploring the region for potential opportunities in trade, investment or any other kind of business and cultural endeavor.