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Article: Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America / The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda / Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve
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- NACLA Report on the Americas
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
by Lars Schoultz, Harvard University Press, 1998, 480 pp., $20.50
The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas and James Dunkerley, Harvard University Press, 1999, 420 pp., $24.95
Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve
by Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999, 412 pp., $19.95
A decade ago, transitions from dictatorship to elected civilian government, and from civil war to negotiated peace, changed the political landscape of Central and South America. The end of the Cold War changed the calculus of U.S. foreign policy and spurred hopes ...