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Latin America's Cold War (Paperback)
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Latin America's Cold War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R598
Discovery Miles 5 980
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For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it
the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's superpowers by
their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an
international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal
Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America
during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the
tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through
the early 1990s, Latin America's Cold War delves into the myriad
crises and turning points of the period-the Cuban revolution and
its aftermath; the recurring cycles of insurgency and
counter-insurgency; the emergence of currents like the National
Security Doctrine, liberation theology, and dependency theory; the
rise and demise of a hemispheric diplomatic challenge to U.S.
hegemony in the 1970s; the conflagration that engulfed Central
America from the Nicaraguan revolution onward; and the democratic
and economic reforms of the 1980s. Most important, the book
chronicles these events in a way that is both multinational and
multilayered, weaving the experiences of a diverse cast of
characters into an understanding of how global, regional, and local
influences interacted to shape Cold War crises in Latin America.
Ultimately, Brands exposes Latin America's Cold War as not a single
conflict, but rather a series of overlapping political, social,
geostrategic, and ideological struggles whose repercussions can be
felt to this day.
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