Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs back issues from April 1997:
Editor's foreword
Apr 01, 1997; ... AS the old century ends and a new one begins, United States foreign policy seems remarkably consistent in being continuously focused on Europe and, to a lesser degree, on Asia. The foreign policy team that was recently appointed by the Clinton administration is characterized, as have been most ...
The future of the hemisphere
Apr 01, 1997; ... Today, the discourse among the countries of our Hemisphere is motivated by a new set of realities, and yesterday's concerns have emerged as priorities for today's policymakers. Education, social development, the environment, tourism, sustainable development, culture, and a number of other ...
Consensus found, consensus lost: Disjunctures in US policy toward Latin America at the turn of the century
Apr 01, 1997; ... After the great ideological debates of the 1970s and 1980s and the domestic "war" (there is no better term) over Central America policy, a quite remarkable consensus had emerged in the 1990s regarding United States policy in Latin America. The new consensus was surprisingly bipartisan, having ...
Hemispheric relations in the 21st century
Apr 01, 1997; ... The key to understanding Latin American relations with the United States as the century, and the millennium, draw to a close is to realize that all of the nations in the Western Hemisphere are still caught up in the transition from the Cold War. That transition, which began nearly a decade ago, ...
United States strategic interests in Latin America: An assessment
Apr 01, 1997; ... As of 1997, the United States faces an unprecedented degree of security stability, and economic prosperity in its relations with Latin America. Never before have US strategic interests in Latin America been as well-protected or have its prospects seemed, at least on the surface, so promising ....
US-Latin American economic relations
Apr 01, 1997; ... I. INTRODUCTION The United States, during the past several years, has squandered a heaven-sent opportunity to cement its already deep economic relations with Latin America. There is no certainty that the neglect will be altered in the near term. A series of transformations made ...
Latin American trade relations
Apr 01, 1997; ... There has always been a certain attitude in Washington having to do with Latin America. It is that Latin America is not quite a grown-up place and, therefore, is worthy of intense US interest only when the region, or part of it, falls into a crisis that crosses paths with one of the US ...
Banking on growth: The role of the inter-American development bank
Apr 01, 1997; ... Now that the nations of the Americas have emerged from the trauma of the debt debacle of the 1980s and are well on their way to overcoming the effects of the Mexican financial crisis of 1994, it is useful to examine more closely the instruments that brought the region through this turbulent ...
The new Clinton administration and the Caribbean: Trade, security and regional politics
Apr 01, 1997; ... Faced with rapid changes in the global system, most Caribbean countries may seem to be doing everything right. The Englishspeaking Caribbean countries, in particular, have been exemplary in their practice of democracy and political stability. Others, such as Suriname and Haiti, are nurturing new ...
The United States and Latin America's armed forces: A troubled relationship
Apr 01, 1997; ... When Commodore David Porter resigned from the US Navy to accept the post of commander-in-chief of Mexico's nascent naval forces, he began a tradition of US involvement with Latin American armed forces that has endured to the present day. Porter's decision was supported by President John Quincy ...
The changing nature of US-Mexican relations
Apr 01, 1997; ... The past few decades have seen profound changes in the bilateral relationship between the United States and Mexico. The interests of the two countries, which often diverged during the Cold War years, increasingly began to converge following collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. With this ...
The US-Cuba agenda opportunity of stalemate
Apr 01, 1997; ... THE CLINTON ADMISTRATION APPROACH With the passage by the 104th Congress of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms-Burton), signed into law by the president on 12 March 1996, relations between the United States and Cuba became the subject of quietly intense ...
Mythologizing Latin American/demonizing the United States
Apr 01, 1997; ... Smith, Peter H. TALONS OF THE EAGLE: DYNAMICS OF US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS. New York, NY and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 377 pp.; $30.00. Kenworthy, Eldon. AMERICA/AMERICAS: MYTH IN THE MAKING OF US POLICY TOWARD LATIN AMERICA. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania ...
Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and Beyond / Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, and Politicians and Mexico's Road to Prosperity
Apr 01, 1997; ... Jaime Suchlicki. MEXICO: FROM MONTEZUMA TO NAFTA, CHIAPAS, AND BEYOND. Washington, DC and New York, NY: Brassey's, Inc., 1996. 227 pp. Andres Oppenheimer. BORDERING ON CHAOS: GUERRILLAS, STOCKBROKERS, AND POLITICIANS AND MEXICO'S ROAD TO PROSPERITY. Toronto, Canada: Little, Brown & ...
Investing and Selling in Latin America
Apr 01, 1997; ... Shirley Christian, (ed). INVESTING AND SELLING IN LATIN AMERICA. Shawnee Mission, KS: Hemisphere Books, a division of Morning Light Publishing Company, 1995; 358 pp. Shirley Christian, a very experienced journalist on Latin American affairs, has gathered a group of reporters expert on ...
From the editor
Apr 01, 1997; ... For the past 14 years, I have been privileged to serve as Editor of the JOURNAL OF INTERAMERICAN STUDIES AND WORLD AFFAIRS. The JOURNAL has achieved significant recognition as a vehicle for the discussion of important issues affecting the Hemisphere. It has developed into perhaps the only ...