U.S.-Latin American Policymaking A Reference Handbook

Subjects:

• Political Science » International Relations
• History » Latin American History
• Multicultural Studies » Latin American Studies

Reviews:

• A good reference book and should be in every college library.
  —Academic Library Book Review
• Among the plethora and poorly edited and recycled essays that unfortunately make up the mainstay of collective volumes of this genre, Dent's comprehensive road map to U.S.-Latin American policymaking since the 1960s is a shining exception. The book, written with a team of 19 scholars, will be indispendable to academics, journalists, and anyone working in the field. Chapters cover the United States and international economic organizations, interest groups and the media, and who makes Latin America policy. There is a fascinating appendix of political cartoons.
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  Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: U.S.-Latin American Policymaking by David W. Dent
• The Inter-American Environment
• The External Environment by G. Pope Atkins
• The United States and the OAS by Larman C. Wilson and David W. Dent
• International Economic Organizations by René Salgado
• The U.S. Domestic Environment
• Elite Values by Mark P. Lagon
• Think Tanks by Howard J. Wiarda
• Interest Groups by David W. Dent
• The U.S. Media by John Spicer Nichols, with the collaboration of Michael J. Dillon and Krishna Kishove
• Public Opinion by Frederick C. Turner
• Who Makes Latin American Policy?
• Making Policy for Latin America: Process and Explanation by Harold Molineu
• The Presidency by Stephen G. Rabe
• The Presidential Advisory System by Gabriel Marcella
• The Role of the U.S. Ambassador by Edward A. Mihalkanin and Warren Keith Neisler
• The U.S. Military by Charles T. Call
• The U.S. Congress by Philip Brenner and Geoffrey Plague
• Specialized Policy Issues in U.S.-Latin American Relations
• Intervention and Interventionism by Michael J. Kryzanek
• Human Rights by Elizabeth Cohn
• Promoting Democracy by Elizabeth Cohn and Michael J. Nojeim
• The United States and the Central American Peace Process by Darío Moreno and Darío Pérez
• Appendices
• Presidential Letter to Chiefs of Mission
• Political Cartoons: Explanations of the Incidents Portrayed
• Index