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9780742516014
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This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual, state, and international level for each country. Case studies include the major regional powers such as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as less-studied players such as the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Uruguay. With its focused analytical questions and rich empirical description, this book a
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction - The Theoretical Challenge to Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy Studies; I - MIDDLE AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN BASIN; 1 - Mexico; MEXICO IN THE COLD WAR: THE DIFFICULT TASK OF PARTICIPATING IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; THE END OF THE COLD WAR: "INTERMESTIC" POLICY?; EXPLAINING FOREIGN POLICY; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; 2 - Costa Rica; FOREIGN POLICY FROM WORLD WAR II: A SUMMARY; FOREIGN POLICY FROM WORLD WAR II: AN ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 3 - Nicaragua
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HISTORYSANDINISTA ADMINISTRATION (1979-1990); CHAMORRO ADMINISTRATION (1990-1996); ALEMÁN ADMINISTRATION (1997-2002); CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; 4 - Panama; THE SALIENCY OF POWER, WEALTH, AND GEOGRAPHY; THE COLD WAR ERA: THE CLASH BETWEEN U.S. GEOPOLITICS AND PANAMANIAN NATIONALISM; THE REGIME OF GENERAL OMAR TORRIJOS: DECLINING U.S. INFLUENCE?; THE NORIEGA CRISIS AND THE U.S. INVASION; THE POST-COLD WAR ERA: THE REALIZATION OF "SOVEREIGNTY" AND THE PROMISE OF DEMOCRACY; CONCLUSION: POWERFUL SYSTEMS, CHANGING STATES, AND ASSERTIVE DIPLOMATS; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 5 - Cuba
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THE WILL TO GRANDEUR: CUBA'S LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM IN THE REPUBLICTHE WILL AND THE WAY TO GRANDEUR: CUBAN FOREIGN POLICY FROM 1959 TO 2000; THE MODEL OF CUBAN FOREIGN POLICY; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 6 - The Dominican Republic; SYSTEMIC AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGE: FROM BALAGUER TO FERNÁNDEZ; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 7 - CARICOM; CARICOM Confronts the Cold War; THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; II - ANDEAN REGION; 8 - Venezuela; DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION DURING THE COLD WAR
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POLITICAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRATIC DECONSOLIDATION AFTER THE COLD WARREGIME AND SYSTEMIC CHANGES AND VENEZUELAN FOREIGN POLICYMAKING; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 9 - Colombia; GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COLOMBIAN FOREIGN POLICY; CONTENDING DOCTRINES: RESPICE POLUM AND RESPICE SIMILIA; COLOMBIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD: ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND DRUGS; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 10 - Ecuador; THE BORDER WAR; FOREIGN DEBT AND ECONOMIC POLICY; ANDEAN REGIONAL ISSUES; ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; 11 - Peru
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS: OUTSIDE PRESSURES AND ECONOMIC FRAGILITYRELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION; REGIONAL COOPERATION, INTEGRATION, AND BORDER DISPUTES; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; 12 - Bolivia; STATE CAPACITY AND FOREIGN POLICY; SEMIAUTONOMOUS FOREIGN POLICY; STRUGGLE FOR THE SEACOAST; DRUG WAR POLICY; FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; 13 - Chile; EVOLUTION OF CONTEMPORARY CHILEAN FOREIGN POLICY; AN ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK FOR CHILEAN FOREIGN POLICY; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; III - BRAZIL AND THE SOUTHERN CONE
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14 - Brazil
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ISBN 9781461638636
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742516007
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Print version Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy
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