The Populist Challenge: Argentine Electoral Behavior in the Postwar Era (The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science)

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Schoultz examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic shifts and alterations in economic activity. He dominated the electoral process that liberals are able to control public policy only through ties to the military. Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America

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In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.

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National Security and United States Policy Toward Latin America (Princeton Legacy Library)

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"Schoultz has written much the most interesting interpretation of U.S. policy toward Latin America that I have ever read.... It should be read by everyone seriously concerned about U.S. foreign policy. Written in a style that makes it fully accessible, the book will appeal to both the specialist and the layperson.... The author examines the beliefs that have underlain U.S. policy toward Latin America, concentrating on the obsession with security that has figured so strongly in that policy. The result is superb-political analysis, but also military analysis, at its best." -Richard H. Ullman, Princeton University In Washington and in local communities throughout the United States a sense of confrontation on U.S. policy toward Latin America is reaching dramatic proportions. Congress is bitterly divided, executive deliberations are plagued by bureaucratic guerrilla warfare, and interest groups vigorously mobilize support at the grass-roots level, a tactic previously unknown in the long history of inter-American relations. Lars Schoultz here proposes a way for all those interested in U.S. foreign policy to appreciate fully 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. Does Latin American instability result from Communist adventurism, as most policy makers thought during the years immediately following World War II? And does this instability radically threaten U.S. national security interests? What dangers are posed to the U. S. by Soviet bases in Latin America, particularly in Central America? Based on interviews with 290 policy makers in a variety of positions, this frank but objective book traces the acrimonious nature of the current discussion to a lack of consensus on these basic questions. Lars Schoultz is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina.

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National Security and United States Policy Toward Latin America (Princeton Legacy Library) by Lars Schoultz (1987-07-01)

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