Overexposed

Raúl L. Madrid is currently a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. He was formerly a foreign affairs analyst with the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of which he wrote Overexposed. Madrid is coauthor of U.S. Arms Exports: Policies and Contractors, a book on U.S. arms transfer policy, and he has written numerous articles and reports on related foreign policy issues.

• Introduction -- An Early History of U.S. Banks in the Developing World -- Global Roots of the Lending Boom -- The Lending Motives of U.S. Banks -- Risk Considerations at U.S. Banks -- The Debt Crisis Erupts -- Banks and the Debt Rescheduling Process -- The Aims of U.S. Banks in the Wake of the Crisis -- Exiting the Third World Debt Crisis -- Appendix