Neighborly Adversaries : Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations

Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: "Contentious Neighbors in the Western Hemisphere" 1(16) Michael LaRosa and Frank O. Mora PART I: DISPARATE PERCEPTIONS: EXPANSIONISM VERSUS ARIELISMO 17(34) 2 "The Anglo-Saxon and the World's Future" 19(8) Josiah Strong 3 Ariel 27(8) Jos nrique Rod 4 "Wild People in Wild Lands: Early American Views of Latin Americans" 35(20) Fredrick Pike PART II: THE MONROE DOCTRINE AND ORIGINS OF U.S. EXPANSIONISM 51(30) 5 The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826 55(10) Dexter Perkins 6 The Platt Amendment of 1901 65(2) 7 "The Real Monroe Doctrine" 67(8) Elihu Root 8 Autopsy of the Monroe Doctrine: The Strange Story of Inter-American Relations 75(8) Gaston Nerval PART III: FROM TR TO FDR: INTERVENTIONISM AND THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY 81(28) 9 "Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden" 83(10) Lester D. Langley 10 "Development of the Panama Policy in the Caribbean and Central America (1902-1936)" 93(4) Samuel Flagg Bemis 11 "An Address to Congress on the Mexican Crisis (April 20, 1914)" 97(4) Woodrow Wilson 12 The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy 101(12) Bryce Wood PART IV: COLD WAR ARRIVES IN LATIN AMERICA 109(66) 13 "The Impact of the Cold War on U.S. Latin American Relations, 1945-1949" 113(10) Roger R. Trask 14 "Latin America as a Problem in U.S. Foreign Policy" 123(12) George Kennan 15 The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America 135(14) Cole Blasier 16 Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala 149(10) Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer 17 "Did Eisenhower Push Castro into the Arms of the Soviets?" 159(20) Alan Luxenberg PART V: DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT IN U.S. LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS 175(60) 18 The Alliance That Lost Its Way: A Critical Report on the Alliance for Progress 179(14) Jerome Levinson and Juan de Onis 19 Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua 193(12) Robert Pastor 20 "The Debt Crisis and Economic Development" 205(14) Riordan Roett 21 "Dope and Dogma: Explaining the Failure of U.S. Latin American Drug Policies" 219(20) Bruce M. Bagley and Juan G. Tokatlian PART VI: LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES: FROM THE 1990's TO POST-9/11 235(94) 22 "More Latin, Less America? Creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas" 239(10) Luisa Angrisani 23 "U.S. Immigration Policies in Historic Context: A Latin American Case Study" 249(14) Michael LaRosa and Lance R. Ingwersen 24 "The Forgotten Relationship" 263(12) Jorge G. Casta eda 25 "The United States and Latin America through the Lens of Empire" 275(12) Michael Shifter 26 "U.S. Influences in Latin America: The Environmental Impact of Trade and the Sustainability Agenda" 287(16) Wesley Ingwersen and Laura vila 27 "Resistance and Alternatives to Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean" 303(16) Richard L. Harris 28 "Beyond Benign Neglect: Washington and Latin America" 319(10) Arturo Valenzuela Notes 329(10) Selected Bibliography 339(12) Credits 351(2) Index 353(16) About the Contributors 369