U.S. and Latin American Relations

Gregory Weeks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has a long track record of writing clear, accessible, and empirically grounded work on US-Latin American relations and Latin American politics. He is the author of another textbook, Understanding Latin American Politics (2014), and has authored a blog on the topic for fifteen years. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Latin Americanist for fifteen years as well. Michael Allison is Professor and Chair of Political Science at The University of Scranton. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award to Guatemala in 2013 and a Fulbright Student Scholar Award to El Salvador in 1997. He has been recognized as the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year at The University of Scranton in 2021 and won the Excellence in Integrating Mission and Justice into the Curriculum Award in 2015 and 2019. He has provided expert witness testimony in over fifty asylum cases for Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking asylum in the United States.

• 1. The Theoretical Context of US – Latin American Relations; 2. The Roots of US and Latin American Relations; 3. The Rise of US Hegemony; 4. The Era of Intervention and the Good Neighbor; 5. The Early Cold War Period; 6. The Cuban Revolution; 7. The Communist Threat and US Intervention; 8. Extra-Hemispheric Actors; 9. Challenges to US Hegemony; 10. Political Economy; 11. Human Rights and Democracy; 12. Latin American Immigration and US Policy; 13. Citizen Insecurity.

'This book is a superb resource for building knowledge and perspective on U.S.-Latin American relations. The masterfully crafted text - organized, engaging, and accessible - provides significant theoretical and historical lenses through which to understand contemporary dynamics in relations across the Western Hemisphere and beyond. This new edition expands the theoretical framework that is cogently woven into the text and provides students many opportunities to discover and think critically about recent events and current issues in the region.' Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University