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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822014203321

Autore

Darnton Christopher <1980->

Titolo

Rivalry and alliance politics in cold war Latin America / / Christopher Darnton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1362-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

980.03

Soggetti

Cold War - Political aspects - Latin America

Latin America Foreign relations 20th century

Latin America Politics and government 1948-1980

Latin America Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Explaining rivalry and rapprochement in cold war Latin America -- Parochial interest and policy change -- Antagonism and anticommunism in Argentine-Brazilian relations -- Peron and Dutra, 1947 : damn the torpedoes -- Frondizi and Quadros, 1961 : the spirit of Uruguaiana -- Lanusse and Medici, 1972 : general to general -- Videla and Figueiredo, 1980 : the turning point -- The 1959 Cuban Revolution and Central American rivalries -- From borders to brotherhood : Nicaragua and Honduras -- Persistent conflicts : Costa Rica-Nicaragua and El Salvador-Honduras -- The 1980's debt crisis and Andean rivalries -- Persistent conflicts : Peru-Ecuador, Colombia-Venezuela, and Bolivia-Chile -- From crisis to cooperation : Argentina and Chile -- From the cold war to the global war on terrorism -- Algeria and Morocco : protracted rivalry in the Maghreb -- The organizational politics of conflict resolution.