Suchergebnisse

La condicion de estado tapon entre Argentina y Brasil es parte de la tradicion historica del Uruguay y se ha convertido en parte integral de su conciencia nacional

For eight years I was associated with one of the most quixotic efforts in academic publishing—a journal concerned comprehensively with research about an area of the world. I must admit that when the Latin American Research Review (LARR) was about to move to Chapel Hill, I thought the original idea that had given birth to the journal had lost its vitality. The notion of reviewing research seemed restrictive and either excessively specialized or hopelessly protean. The dramatic increase in the training of Latin Americanists and the resulting explosion of publications about the region by the end of the 1960s seemed to threaten with extinction the rara avis that had been the journal's stock in trade, the review of the literature. In 1974, when John Martz and I assumed control of LARR, it was hard to imagine anyone repeating Richard Morse's feat in the two-part article on urban studies, "Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970" (LARR volume 6, numbers 1 and 2 [1971]). The mere suggestion of surveying the field of colonial history in three articles, as James Lockhart, Karen Spalding, and Frederick Bowser had done in 1972, would have brought an incredulous curl to the nether lip of a student of that field just two years later. The fact that we received virtually no backlog of manuscripts from our predecessors appeared symbolic of the well having run dry.

Argentine neutrality during World War II with its suspicious leanings toward fascism has become a cliché in inter-American relations. As far as the United States was concerned at that time, the Argentine Republic was the black sheep of the hemispheric community, the only nation that failed to cooperate wholeheartedly in the crusade against the Axis. The famous State Department "Blue Book," so conveniently published prior to the Argentine general elections of 1946, spelled out the aid and comfort the Nazis had derived from Argentina's neutrality. By only the narrowest margin did Argentina avoid being drummed out of the hemispheric organization and barred from membership in the new United Nations.It seems strange, therefore, to recall that it was the Argentine government that first suggested, in the spring of 1940, that the nations of the Western Hemisphere discard the posture of traditional neutrality in the face of the spreading conflagration in Europe, on the grounds that it was anachronistic and did not protect their interests.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- The Dominant Themes in Latin American Foreign Relations: An Introduction -- 1 Collective Action for Democracy in the Americas -- 2 Understanding Latin American Foreign Policies -- 3 Politics, Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy in Chile -- 4 Cuba Adapts to a Brave New World -- 5 Central America and the United States -- 6 The Fate of a Small State: Ecuador in Foreign Affairs -- 7 Mexican Foreign Policy in the 1990s: Learning to Live with Interdependence -- 8 Continuity and Change in Argentine Foreign Policy -- 9 The Foreign Policy of Brazil: From the Democratic Transition to Its Consolidation -- 10 Postplantation Societies and World Order: Some Reflections on the Caribbean Predicament -- 11 Soviet Union-Latin American Relations: A Historical Perspective -- About the Contributors -- About the Book -- Index

Introduction: Toward a society under law / Joseph S. Tulchin and Meg Ruthenburg -- The impact of community policing and police reform in Latin America / Hugo Frühling -- Advocacy networks and police reform : assessing their impact / Claudio Fuentes -- Crime and social policies in Latin American urban centers / Claudio C. Beato F -- Measuring the costs of crime and violence as an input to public policy : evidence from Mexico city / Graciela Teruel ... [et al] -- Paths toward police and judicial reform in Latin America / Paulo de Mesquita Neto -- Police reform in Latin America : Argentina, Brazil, and Chile / Heather H. Ward -- Citizen participation and public security in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile : lessons from an initial experience / Catalina Smulovitz -- Policies of citizen security in Argentina : the national plan for the prevention of crime / Alberto Fhrig, Julia S. Pomares, and Cecilia Gortari -- Civilians in charge of security in Peru : a personal testimony / Carlos Basombrío -- Elements for a study of crime in Mexico City / Arturo Alvarado Mendoza -- Conclusion / Joseph S. Tulchin and Meg Ruthenburg