United States Policy in Latin America: A Decade of Crisis and Challenge

About the previous edition: "A gem, an authoritative handbook on U.S. policy focusing on the crucial conflicts of the past twenty-five years."-Foreign Affairs. "The contributors probe the substance of U.S. policy in Latin America, seeking to look beyond headlines, shifting economics, and changing decisions." -Booklist. "Most of the contributors to this collection . . . developed their interest in Latin America while it remained neglected by most academics. The volume profits from the breadth and depth of their expertise and from the focus on Latin America as a whole, not simply Central America and the Caribbean." -Choice. In 1988 the University of Nebraska Press published United States Policy in Latin America: A Quarter Century of Crisis and Challenge, 1961-1986, edited by John D. Martz. This completely new work retains the best features of that popular earlier volume. Thirteen experts survey U.S. policy for the past decade on topics of relevance to Latin America (such as trade, drugs, immigration, and armed insurrection). The development of a new, post-Cold War U.S. policy can also be observed. The broad focus on the events and people of the 1980s and 1990s addresses those issues likely to remain pertinent well into the twenty-first century. The Reagan record-the man, the administration, the internal political wars, and the lack of coordination-is thoroughly explicated. The Bush administration, including the Panamanian intervention, is also analyzed. Bilateral relations are illuminated in the essays concerning Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil. Throughout, the writers look to the future to warn us not to dismiss the importance of these countries. John D. Martz is a Distinguished Professor ofPolitical Science at The Pennsylvania State University. His works include Accisn Democratica: Evolution of a Modern Political Party in Venezuela; Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador; and, with David Meyers, Venezuela: The Democratic Experience.