FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations.One of these Americans was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the primary author of America's Good Neighbor Policy. In this thought-provoking book, Fredrick Pike takes a wide-ranging look at FDR's motives for pursuing the Good Neighbor Policy, at how he implemented it, and at how its themes have played out up to the mid-1990s.Pike's investigation goes far beyond standard studies of foreign and economic policy. He explores how FDR's personality and Eleanor Roosevelt's social activism made them uniquely simpÁtico to Latin Americans. He also demonstrates how Latin culture flowed north to influence U.S. literature, film, and opera. The book will be essential reading for everyone interested in hemispheric relations.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor422
FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN9780292754935

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PrefaceSection I. The Great Depression and Better Neighborliness in the Americas 1. Operatic Prologue2. Depression: The New World’s Great Equalizer3. Depression in America’s Cities, Depression in the Countryside, and a Rapprochement with Latin America4. Americans Reassess Capitalism and the Hemisphere5. A Clint Eastwood Cinematic EpilogueSection II. Inducements Toward Good Neighborliness 6. Religion, Social Gospel, and Social Work7. American and Latin American Intellectuals as Good Neighbors8. Becoming Good Neighbors through Arts and Letters9. Krause, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the American CulturatiSection III. Ambivalence of Mood: North Americans Contemplate Latin Americans 10. The Lure of the Primitive and the Acceptance of Cultural Diversity11. Single-Minded Bigots No Longer12. Racial Bigotry and Hemispheric RelationsSection IV. The Roosevelt Styles in Latin American Relations 13. Sizing Up Latin America: The Young and the Mature Roosevelt14. Hyde Park Patrician in the Latin Style15. The Roosevelt Style: Corporatism and TricksterismSection V. Launching and Targeting the Good Neighbor Policy 16. Discarding the Burdens of Interventionism17. Agrarian Myths and the Good Neighbor Policy18. The Good Neighbor’s Romance with Mexico19. Good Neighbor Policies: Soft, Hard, and Indeterminate20. FDR: What Kind of a Good Neighbor?21. First the Hemisphere, Then the WorldSection VI. Security Issues and Good Neighbor Tensions 22. The Hemisphere in Danger23. Two in One Flesh: Economic and Security Issues24. Three in One Flesh: Economic, Security, and Cultural Issues25. Old and New Hemispheric Tensions as One War Gives Way to Another26. The Good Neighbor Policy in Transition as Its Presiding Officer DiesSection VII. Farewell and Welcome Back the Good Neighbor Policy 27. The “American Century” Begins28. Rethinking Good Neighborliness as the American Century Begins29. The Cold War and a Hemispheric Marriage of ConvenienceSection VIII. Good Neighbor Themes and Variations Half a Century Later 30. New Economic Forces Begin to Transform the New World31. Expanding Potentials for Good (and Bad) Neighborliness toward Century’s End: Religion and Immigration32. Toward Century’s End: Problems in Privatized Paradises33. The Enduring Potential of FDR’s Gentle ChaosNotesIndex

A brilliant though unorthodox treatment of the cultural and intellectual developments that lay behind the policy of the Good Neighbor. The influence of culture on foreign policy is a theme open to absurd generalizations and pointless anecdotes and is often dealt with poorly. Pike does it superbly, with successive chapters that illuminate how the Great Depression profoundly altered the way in which many norteamericanos and Latin Americans conceived of their mutual relations.... This charming and perceptive work deserves a wide readership among students of hemispheric relations. (Foreign Affairs)