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Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War
Aragorn Storm Miller
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Description for Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War
Hardback. Analyses US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. The author addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSV; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 304 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Miller analyzes US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. He addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure in which initiatives intended to promote democracy and modernization, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological struggles of the global Cold War, reaped only authoritarian regimes, uneven and sluggish economic growth, and abstract debates over capitalism and communism that distracted attention from Latin America's pressing socioeconomic problems. Precarious Paths to Freedom demonstrates ... Read more
Miller analyzes US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. He addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure in which initiatives intended to promote democracy and modernization, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological struggles of the global Cold War, reaped only authoritarian regimes, uneven and sluggish economic growth, and abstract debates over capitalism and communism that distracted attention from Latin America's pressing socioeconomic problems. Precarious Paths to Freedom demonstrates ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826356871
SKU
V9780826356871
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About Aragorn Storm Miller
Aragorn Storm Miller is a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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