ABSTRACT

First Published in 1994. Volume 6 in the 7-volume series titled Essays on Mexico, Central and South America: Scholarly Debates from the 1950s to the 1990s. The central scholarly articles concern interstate peace along with a U.S. propensity to intervene, and international structural vulnerabilities and economic asymmetries along with the significance of elite skills and choices. This title recognises that scholars have paid more attention to international economics in Latin America and seeks to balance the range study.

chapter 1|24 pages

The Balance of Power in Nineteenth-Century South America

An Exploratory Essay

chapter 2|33 pages

Economics and Differential Patterns of Political Integration

Projections About Unity in Latin America

chapter 5|31 pages

Manipulating International Commodity Markets

Brazilian Coffee Policy 1906 to 1962

chapter 6|26 pages

Dependency

A Critical Synthesis of the Literature

chapter 7|37 pages

Petroleum Policy in Venezuela

Lessons in the Politics of Dependence Management

chapter 9|40 pages

Consensus and Divergence

The State of the Literature on Inter-American Relations in the 1970s

chapter 11|32 pages

State Institutions, Ideology, and Autonomous Technological Development

Computers and Nuclear Energy in Argentina and Brazil ⋆

chapter 12|36 pages

The Debt Crisis*

Structural Explanations of Country Performance

chapter 16|33 pages

Preempting Revolutions

The Boundaries of U.S. Influence