Background
Pastor, Robert Allen was born on April 10, 1947 in Newark. Son of Norman and Ruth (Kagan) Pastor.
(An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and Ameri...)
An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and American political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries. Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving strikes Mexicans as clandestine imperialism. Mexicans are accused of ignoring the flow of drugs through their country; Americans are accused of saddling Mexico with their drug problem. Americans brood over the influx of Mexican immigrants; Mexicans worry that their culture and traditions are being diluted from the north. These differences are now aired—and their origins made clear—in this landmark book by a former official in the Carter administration and one of Mexico's most respected political scholars. In alternating chapters on foreign policy, economic relations, immigration, and social influence, Robert A. Pastor and Jorge C. Castañeda offer a multifaceted view of the ties and conflicts between their countries.
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( The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers even...)
The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988.
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( Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the S...)
Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy Carter that mediated the first free election in Nicaragua's history. From his unique vantage point, and utilizing a wealth of original material from classified government documents and from personal interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan leaders, Pastor shows how Nicaragua and the United States were prisoners of a tragic history and how they finally escaped. This revised and updated edition covers the events of the democratic transition, and it extracts the lessons to be learned from the past.
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Pastor, Robert Allen was born on April 10, 1947 in Newark. Son of Norman and Ruth (Kagan) Pastor.
Student, University Birmingham (England), 1967-1968; Bachelor, Lafayette College, 1969; Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1977.
Volunteer, Peace Corps., 1970-1972; executive director, Linowitz Commision on United States/Los Angeles Rels., 1975-1977; director office Latin American and Caribbean affairs, National Security Council, White House, Washington, 1977-1981; senior adviser on Latin American, Honorary Walter Mondale, Washington, 1981-1984; faculty research associate, U. Maryland., College Park, 1982-1985; Fulbright professor, El Colegio de Mexico, 1985-1986; director Latin American and Caribbean program, Carter Center, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1985; professor political science, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1985; nominated, Amb. to Panama, 1994; nomination blocked, 1994; consultant, Department Defense, 1995.
( Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the S...)
( The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers even...)
( The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers even...)
(An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and Ameri...)
Married Magaret Pastor, June 16, 1979. Children: Tiffin Margaret, Robert Kiplin.