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The third edition of U.S. and Latin American Relations offers detailed theoretical and historical analyses essential for understanding contemporary US-Latin American relations. Utilizing four different theories (realism, liberal institutionalism, dependency, and autonomy) as a framework, the text provides a succinct history of relations from Latin American independence through the Covid-19 era before then examining critical contemporary issues such as immigration, human rights, and challenges to US hegemony. Engaging pedagogical features such as timelines, research questions, and annotated resources appear throughout…
Integrates four different frameworks (realism, liberalism institutionalism, dependency theory, and the autonomy approach), thereby empowering students to link political history and current events to key international relations theories
Reviews the history of US-Latin American relations from the nineteenth century to the present, reinforcing the material through accessible timelines and excerpts from primary sources
Examines key areas of current conflict and cooperation, including debt and trade, human rights, immigration, and crime and corruption
Investigates challenges to US hegemony and the specific involvement of extrahemispheric actors such as China, Russia, Iran, Japan, and India, while considering how different frameworks explain these developments
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Authors
Gregory B. Weeks,University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Gregory Weeks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has a long track record of writing clear, accessible, and empirically grounded work on US-Latin American relations and Latin American politics. He is the author of another textbook, Understanding Latin American Politics (2014), and has authored a blog on the topic for fifteen years. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Latin Americanist for fifteen years as well.
Michael E. Allison,University of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Michael Allison is Professor and Chair of Political Science at The University of Scranton. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award to Guatemala in 2013 and a Fulbright Student Scholar Award to El Salvador in 1997. He has been recognized as the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year at The University of Scranton in 2021 and won the Excellence in Integrating Mission and Justice into the Curriculum Award in 2015 and 2019. He has provided expert witness testimony in over fifty asylum cases for Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking asylum in the United States.