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THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN U.S. ECONOMIC AND MILITARY ASSISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA AND RECIPIENT GOVERNMENT'S REPRESSION OF CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS. THE PAPER IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY, NOT A DISCUSSION OF WHAT ONE MIGHT WISH THE POLICY CONTAINED.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 Encountering Latin America -- 2 Acquiring Northern Mexico -- 3 Struggling over Slavery in the Caribbean -- 4 Ending an Era: Regional Hegemony over a Defective People -- 5 Beginning a New Era: The Imperial Mentality -- 6 Testing the Imperial Waters: Confronting Chile -- 7 Excluding Great Britain: The Venezuela Boundary Dispute -- 8 Establishing an Empire: Cuba and the War with Spain -- 9 Creating a Country, Building a Canal -- 10 Chastising Chronic Wrongdoing -- 11 Providing Benevolent Supervision: Dollar Diplomacy -- 12 Continuing to Help in the Most Practical Way Possible -- 13 Removing the Marines, Installing the Puppets -- 14 Establishing the Foundations of Honorable Intercourse -- 15 Becoming a Good Neighbor -- 16 Attacking Dictatorships -- 17 Combatting Communism with Friendly Dictators -- 18 Combatting Communism with Economic Development -- 19 Two Centuries Later -- Sources -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: Populism and Social Mobilization in Latin America -- CHAPTER 2: Populist Challenge and Liberal Response -- CHAPTER 3: Peronist Electoral Support: A Multivariate Analysis -- CHAPTER 4: Peronist Electoral Change: An Index of Fluidity -- Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

In this book, Lars Schoultz explores the culture of "improvement" that defines the attitudes and values shaping all United States policies towards Latin America in the past and present. Schoultz's aim is to find the sources of this political and intellectual culture which has informed our relations with our southern neighbors and which continues to do so despite its faulty premises and its failure to effect change and transformation. Schoultz focuses on two period in the past as critical to embedding the culture and policies of improvement: the Progressive Era, which established the belief in "uplifting" others for their betterment, and the Cold War Era, which established the institutions for sustaining and implementing the process of uplifting a people and state. In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans is a powerful historical indictment of a "constellation of beliefs" that has been a central part of Washington's foreign policy establishment and culture. The notion that the United States knows better than its allies and neighbors what is best for each of them resonates beyond Latin America and underlies much of the United States' foreign policies around the world.

The role of human rights in United States policy toward Latin America is the subject of this study. It covers the early sixties to 1980, a period when humanitarian values came to play an important role in determining United States foreign policy. The author is concerned both with explaining why these values came to impinge on government decision making and how internal bureaucratic processes affected the specific content of United States policy. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pr.

Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its neighbor, the Cubans' historical insistence on their right to self-determination has been a constant thorn in the side of American administrations, influenced both U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy on a much larger stage, and resulted in a freeze in diplomatic relations of unprecedented longevity.

Presents a comprehensive chronicle of US policy towards the Cuban revolution. This book tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten US administrations to end the Cuban Revolution.

Lars Schoultz proposes a way for all those interested in U.S. foreign policy fully to appreciate the terms of the present debate. To understand U.S. policy in Latin America, he contends, one must critically examine the deeply held beliefs of U.S. policy makers about what Latin America means to U.S. national security. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Washington's hostile post-Cold War policy toward Cuba is often explained as a function of domestic politics-as an effort to curry favor among Cuban American voters and campaign contributors, most of whom live in Florida, which has the fourth-largest number of votes in the electoral college. Although it does not deny the significance of domestic politics, this article argues that the bedrock of U.S. policy is an ideology of benevolent domination. Created at the time of the Spanish-American War, President Theodore Roosevelt captured this ideology perfectly in 1907 when he explained, "I am seeking the very minimum of interference necessary to make them good," and it is seen today in the 2004 report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. (Cuba Stud/GIGA)