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First published in 2000.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1. Security, Peace, and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean Challenges for the Post-Cold War Era -- 2. The Use of Force in Latin American Interstate Relations -- Part I: The Transformation of Interstate Relations in Southern South America -- 3. Argentina's Security Policies: Their Rationale and Regional Context -- 4. Transition and Civil-Military Relations in Chile: Contributions in a New International Framework -- 5. Security Policies, Democratization, and Regional Integration in the Southern Cone -- Part II: The Impact on Latin American Countries of Participation in UN Missions -- 6. Institutionalization, Cooperative Security, and Peacekeeping Operations: The Argentine Experience -- 7. Peacekeeping and its Effects on Civil-Military Relations: The Argentine Experience -- 8. Exporting Peace by Other Means: Venezuela -- Part III: New and Nontraditional Security Threats in Central America and the Anglophone Caribbean -- 9. Security Collaboration and Confidence Building in the Americas -- 10. The Illicit Drug Trade in the Caribbean -- 11. Central American Regional Security: Postwar Prospects for Peace and Democracy -- 12. Security, Agenda, and Military Balance in Central America: Limits to Democratic Consolidation in the 1990s -- Part IV: U.S. Foreign and Military Policy and Inter-American Security Issues and Institutions -- 13. Why Latin America May Miss the Cold War: The United States and the Future of Inter-American Security Relations -- 14. Chameleon, Tortoise, or Toad: The Changing U.S. Security Role in Contemporary Latin America -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Race and Class in Mexico -- On the Concept of Social Race in the Americas -- Colour Prejudice in Brazil -- Mass Immigration and Modernization in Argentina -- Race, Color, and Class in Central America and the Andes -- Beyond Poverty: The Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil -- The Present Status of Afro-American Research in Latin America -- African Culture in Brazilian Art -- A Comparative Study of the Assimilation of the Chinese in New York City and Lima, Peru -- Ethnicity, Secret Societies, and Associations: The Japanese in Brazil -- Research in the Political Economy of Afro-Latin America -- Minority Oppression: Toward Analyses that Clarify and Strategies that Liberate -- Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth? -- Race and Class in Brazil: Historical Perspectives -- Peasant Politics and the Mexican State: Indigenous Compliance in Highland Chiapas -- Black Political Protest in São Paulo, 1888-1988 -- Challenging the Nation-State in Latin America -- Rethinking Race in Brazil -- Acknowledgments

During Ronald Reagan's, George H. W. Bush's & William Clinton's terms of office a particular policy of State toward Latin America took shape in the United States. It was interrupted under George W. Bush & reappears with Barack Obama. Bearing in mind that the concept of policy of State is empirical, we can see the duration & reappearance of the fundamental traits of the United States government's behavior toward Latin America under different presidents from both political parties. Eight topics are studied: protection of human rights & defense of democracy; promotion of free trade; benevolent policy toward legal immigration; strengthening multilateral agencies; pacification in Central America; readiness to resort to the use of military force & other coercive measures; simultaneous cooperation & conflict with Cuba; & militarization of drug trafficking policy. Adapted from the source document.