This book questions many current promises of a new era of democracy, peace and co-operation in the post-Cold War period by challenging several myths that shape United States policy towards Latin America. James Petras and Morris Morley argue that electoral regimes and free markets in the hemisphere have not improved people's lives, that Washington's neo-conservative allies do not have a viable future, and that the end of the Cold War has not lessened US interventionist behaviour in Latin America. "Latin America in the Time of Cholera" uses empirical and historical analyses and provides a unique interpretive framework; it also presents a combination of case studies and critiques of contemporary power relations.

Latin America in the Time of Cholera: Electoral Politics, Market Economics, and Permanent Crisis

Politics & Social Sciences

Petras, James

Morley, Morris

Politics & Government

Routledge

Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home.

Empire or Republic?: American Global Power and Domestic Decay

In this first comprehensive study of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the post-Cold War era, Morris Morley and Chris McGillion draw on interviews with Bush and Clinton policymakers, congressional participants in the policy debate, and leaders of the anti-sanctions business community to argue that Bush and Clinton operated within the same Cold War framework that shaped the Cuba policy of their predecessors. They also demonstrate that U.S. policy after 1989 was driven principally by domestic imperatives. The result was the pursuit of a policy that had nothing to do with its stated objectives of promoting reforms in Cuba and everything to do with dismantling Castro's regime. This study also addresses the international consequences: the extraterritorial applications of national laws to America's allies; and a willingness to put in danger the operations of the global free trade regime. Few issues more starkly revealed the degree to which U.S. policymakers exhibited a striking lack of realism about America's capacity to impose its will globally. Morris Morley has taught at SUNY-Binghamton and American Unversity. He is the author of Imperial State and Revolution (Cambridge, 1987) and Washington, Somoza and the Sandanistas (Cambridge, 1994) He is a senior research fellow with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Chris McGillion has taught at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, and Macquarie University. He is a former editorial page editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and has written for the Political Science Quarterly. As a journalist, he has made several trips to Cuba.

Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989–2001

History

McGillion, Chris

Americas

Cambridge University Press

The United States and Chile: Imperialism and the Overthrow of the Allende Government

Monthly Review+press

Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over US Policy toward Chile

This book is the first comprehensive study of the Reagan administration's policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on new primary and archival materials, as well as on original interviews with former U.S. and Chilean officials, it traces the evolution of Reagan policy from an initial "close embrace" of the junta to a reevaluation of whether Pinochet was a risk to long-term U.S. interests in Chile and, finally, to an acceptance in Washington of the need to push for a return to democracy. It provides fresh insights into the bureaucratic conflicts that were a key part of the Reagan decision-making process and reveals not only the successes but also the limits of U.S. influence on Pinochet's regime - centered around the challenge of creating a viable civilian alternative that was acceptable to both the junta and Washington. Finally, it contributes to the ongoing debate about the U.S. approach toward democracy promotion in the Third World over the past half century.

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