The United States and Latin America after the Cold War [Paperback]

This book analyzes diplomatic relations between the United States and Latin America since 1989.Crandall examines the policies of three postCold War presidential administrations through the prism of three critical areas: democracy, economics, and security. He argues that any lasting analysis must be viewed through a fresh framework that allows for the often unexpected episodes and outcomes in U.S.Latin American relations.Crandall examines the policies of three postCold War presidential administrations through the prism of three critical areas: democracy, economics, and security. He argues that any lasting analysis must be viewed through a fresh framework that allows for the often unexpected episodes and outcomes in U.S.Latin American relations.The United States and Latin America after the Cold War looks at the almost quarter-century of relations between the United States and Latin America since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. An academic and recent high-level U.S. policymaker, Crandall argues that any lasting analysis must be viewed through a fresh framework that allows for the often unexpected episodes and outcomes in U.S.Latin American relations. Crandalls book examines the policies of three postCold War presidential administrations (Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.) through the prism of three critical areas: democracy, economics, and security. Crandall then introduces several case studies of U.S. policy in Latin America, such as Cuba, Brazil, interventions in Haiti, Colombia, Hugo Chavezs Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentinas financial meltdown.1. Conceptual; 2. Presidential administrations: Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.; 3. Democracy; 4. Security; 5. Economics; 6. Washington, the IMF, and financial meltdowns in Latin America; 7. Colombia: the narcotization of US policy; 8. Blowback: the drug war in Bolivia; 9. The United States vs. Hugo Chavez; 10. The United States vs. Daniel Ortega; 11. Brazil: ally or rival?; 12. Castro and Cuba; 13. The Haitian dilemma; lóY