American Foreign Policy Towards Latin America in the 80s and 90s: Issues and Controversies from Reagan to Bush

This book examines the fundamental tenets and ideologies behind America's policy towards Latin America over the course of the last three administrations. Wiarda supplements his analysis on the role of the military in Latin America, shifting US strategic policy, democracy and human rights and the problems presented by dictators in decline with case studies of Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, South America and the Caribbean. The result is a book that may be of interest to both scholars and students of American foreign policy and Latin American studies, as well as policymakers and analysts. United States policy toward Central America : a retrospective of the Reagan years United States policy in Latin America : the Bush agenda "Friendly tyrants" : gauging when to change U.S. policy The military and democracy Europe's ambiguous relations with Latin America : blowing hot and cold in the Western Hemisphere The politics of Latin American debt Opportunities and obstacles to superpower conflict resolution : Soviet-American cooperation in Central America State-society relations in Latin America : toward a theory of the contract state Rethinking political development : a look backward over thirty years, and a look ahead Political culture and national development Turnaround in Nicaragua : the larger implications Mexico : the unraveling of a corporatist regime? The Dominican Republic : mirror legacies of democracy and authoritarianism Is Cuba next? : crises of the Castro regime South American domestic politics and foreign policy Saving Latin America from the "black hole" The democratic breakthrough in Latin America : challenges, prospects, and U.S. policy