Bolivia and the United States: A Limited PartnershipUniversity of Georgia Press, 1999 - 296 páginas This comprehensive account of U.S.-Bolivian relations presents startling contrasts between the histories, mythologies, and economies of the two countries, debunking the pop-culture myth that Bolivia is a poorer and less modern version of the United States. Kenneth D. Lehman focuses primarily on the countries' relationship during the twentieth century, highlighting periods when Bolivia became important to the United States as a provider of tin during World War II, as a potential source of regional instability during the Cold War, and as a supplier of cocaine to the U.S. market in recent years. While the partnerships forged in these situations have been rooted in mutual self-interest, the United States was--and is--clearly dominant. Repeatedly, the U.S. policy toward Bolivia has moved from assistance to frustration and imposition, and the Bolivian response has intensified from submission to resentment and resistance. Bolivia and the United States presents an illuminating discussion of the real as well as mythical bonds that link these most distant and different neighbors, simultaneously providing an abundance of evidence to show how factors of culture and power complicate and limit true partnership. |
Contenido
Most Different of Neighbors | 1 |
Most Distant of Neighbors | 29 |
Center Periphery and the Tin Nexus | 60 |
Bolivian Dilemma and a Pragmatic Experiment | 91 |
The Limits of Pragmatism and the Disintegration | 114 |
The National Security State and the Limits | 147 |
Frontier Myths Cocaine Dependency and Limits | 180 |
Bibliographical Essay | 277 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership Kenneth D. Lehman Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership Kenneth Duane Lehman Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
1952 revolution Andean Andrade April Argentina army Banzer Barrientos Boliv Bolivian Foreign Brazil British Chaco Chaco War Chapare Che Guevara Chile Chilean coca-cocaine cocaine Cochabamba colonial Communists conflict coup Diário Diplomatic Dispatches from U.S. drug Dunkerley economic Eisenhower embassy exports Fifer forces FRUS Gamarra García Meza Guevara hemispheric Indian James Malloy Juan Lechín Klein La Paz labor Land Latin America leaders Lechín Legacy of Populism livia Malloy ment military million miners mines nationalist North American party Patiño Paz Zamora Paz's peasant percent Pike Poder y fuerzas political Potosí Prado president production Rebellion reforms regime revolution revolutionary role Sánchez de Lozada Santa Cruz Siles social South Spanish tin prices tion U.S. aid U.S. assistance U.S. House U.S. Ministers U.S. officials U.S. policy U.S.-Bolivian relations United Upper Peru Veins Víctor Paz Víctor Paz Estenssoro Villarroel Walter Guevara Washington workers York
Referencias a este libro
Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations Stewart Brewer Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Addicted to Failure: U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region Brian Loveman Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |