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Bolivia and the United States - A Limited Partnership (Hardcover)
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Bolivia and the United States - A Limited Partnership (Hardcover)
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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.
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