A New Doctrine of Insecurity? U.S. Military Deployment in South America

A New Doctrine of Insecurity? U.S. Military Deployment in South America

The announced redeployment this summer of the U.S. Navy’s Fourth Fleet, a World War II–era flotilla, to patrol the Caribbean ...
The Candidates and Latin America

The Candidates and Latin America

With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of ...
Opening Up the Files: Chile Declassified

Opening Up the Files: Chile Declassified

“It is not a part of our country’s history that we are proud of.” —Secretary of State Colin Powell, answering ...
Broadcast Wars

Broadcast Wars

FIDEL CASTRO ONCE CALLED IT "AN ELEC- tronic war between David and Goliath...that Biblical character [who] was defeated by his ...
Minding the Backyard: Washington's Latin America Policy After the Cold War

Minding the Backyard: Washington’s Latin America Policy After the Cold War

In what for lack of a better term has come to be dubbed the post-Cold War era, progressives seeking to ...
Bush "Realists" Say Goodbye to Democracy Promotion

Bush “Realists” Say Goodbye to Democracy Promotion

Since President Ronald Reagan announced his commitment to the promotion of democracy in a speech to the British Parliament in ...
The Popular Challenge

The Popular Challenge

There is some evidence that in the current era of globalization, which is being organized more and more according to ...
From Hemispheric Police to Global Managers

From Hemispheric Police to Global Managers

With the end of World War II dawned what Time magazine called the American Century. Europe and Japan a bombed-out ...