ABSTRACT
The growing importance of third world countries in the international system brings their potential for conflict and cooperation to the forefront. Given the tact that the East-West conflict tends to intensify the North-South conflict, a general tendency toward more warlike antagonisms is becoming evident within the Third World. In view of this trend, Latin America as a region becomes particularly interesting; conditions here have always led to conflict situations between the various countries, 1 but specific historical factors seem to have kept these conflicts from erupting to the same extent that they have in other regions of the Third World.
