Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations

Juan Pablo Scarfi received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He was a Visiting Scholar at University College London (Institute of the Americas), UK, and Columbia University, USA. He is the author of El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un orden jurídico interamericano (2014). Andrew R. Tillman is a Senior Research Associate at the White House, USA.

• Cooperation and Hegemony in U.S.-Latin American Relations: An Introduction; Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew TillmanPART I: DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS AND APPROACHES TO U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND HISTORY1. Another American Social Science: International Relations in the Western Hemisphere; Charles Jones2. Commonality, Specificity and Difference: Histories and Historiography of The Americas; Tanya HarmerPART II: PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE IDEA OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 3. The 'Vanguard of Pan-Americanism': Chile and Inter-American Multilateralism in the Early 20th Century; Mark Jeffrey Petersen4. Hemisphere, Region and Nation: Spatial Conceptions in U.S. Hispanic American History; Ricardo D. SalvatorePART III: HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM5. Pan-American Legal Designs: The Rise and Decline of American International Law in the Western Hemisphere, 1911-1933; Juan Pablo Scarfi6. The Inter-American Human Rights System and U.S.-Latin American Relations; Par Engstrom

“This edited volume is one of several recent publications that demonstrate a renewed interest in the relationship between the US and Latin American states … . the volume provides a comprehensive, critical and easily accessible review of the Hemisphere idea that will be of interest to students of American international history, intellectual history in the Americas and Latin American international relations.” (Nicole Jenne, Revista De Ciencia Politica, Vol. 36 (2), 2016)