Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-73
Javier Corrales (Section 01)
[CP, IR] Can small and non-powerful nations ever profit from a relationship with a more powerful hegemon? Who gains and who loses in this type of asymmetrical relationship? This seminar attempts to answer these questions by looking at the relations between the U.S. and Latin American nations. The seminar begins by presenting different ways in which intellectuals have tried to conceptualize and analyze the relations between the U.S. and Latin America. These approaches are then applied to different dimensions of the relationship: (1) intra-hemispheric relations prior to World War II (the sources of U.S. interventionism and the response of Latin America); (2) political and security issues after World War II (the role of the Cold War in the hemisphere and U.S. reaction to instability in the region, with special emphasis on Cuba in the early 1960s, Peru in the late 1960s, Chile in the early 1970s, The Falklands War and Nicaragua in the 1980s); and (3) economic and business issues (the politics of foreign direct investment and trade, and the debt crisis in the 1980s). Finally, we examine contemporary trends: the emerging hemispheric convergence, economic integration, drug trade, immigration, the defense of democracy regime, and the re-emergence of multilateral interventionism. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in political science.
Requisite: Political Science 13 or its equivalent. Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Professor Corrales.
Section 01
Tu 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM FAYE 113
Th 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM FAYE 113
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cuban Embargo: the Dmostic Politics of an American Foreign Policy | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Neighborly Adversaries | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations 2nd Edition | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.