Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Chile and the United States 1880-1962
Author: Fredrick B. PikePublisher:
ISBN: 9780268000394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The key to the future of the United States relations with its sister republics in South and Central America may well be found in this exhaustive study of Chile-United States relationships. The South American nation's relatively small population belies the powerful influence it wields in all American Hemisphere councils. For more than a century a small and tightly-knit group of upper and middle social sectors, representing a fairly broad cross-section of functional interest groups, has controlled the country's destiny. From 1880 to 1933 the course they followed led to many abrasive diplomatic incidents with the great "Colossus of the North." By no means can the blame for these clashes be placed exclusively on Chile's doorstep. Yet, while the diplomatic tangle has been largely unraveled since 1933, the intervening years have served only to expose a far more serious and sensitive source of trouble between the two nations: the wide gulf that separates the governed and the governing in Chile. The two problems, as Professor Pike points out, are inextricably interwoven. It has been a case of a participating, privileged minority served by a nonparticipating, nonprivileged majority. But the difference today is that the formerly docile masses are growing restless. The United States has contributed significantly, even if indirectly to Chile's present social unrest. The material aspects of the American "way of life" expounded and exemplified by United States tourists, missionaries, businessmen, and movies have fired the Chilean people with a desire to attain them. The semi-feudal political, social, and economic order created by the Chilean ruling class perches atop a powder keg, the detonation of which could well pave the way for a dictatorship of the proletariat. The stake of the United States in this gathering crisis is clear. President Kennedy's establishment of the Alliance for Progress in 1961 indicates that the United States has at last officially recognized the gravity of the internal social problem, not only in Chile but throughout the Southern Americas. The program is premised on the belief that Latin-American governments can be pressured into internal reforms by making future aid and loans dependent upon their adoption, and that, form the opposite end of the social spectrum, so to speak, the nonprivileged, nonparticipating majorities cancan be trained to assume their new and rightful place in a democratic society on an intelligent and peaceful basis. The author abundantly documents the reasons underlying the basic Chilean distrust of the United States. Yet at the same time he points to the outmoded opinions of modern United States attitudes and policies stubbornly held by the people of Chile on every level. The righting of this distorted United States image is part of the task of the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, and for this reason among others, the importance of their assignments is impossible to overestimate. The final decision, of course, will be Chile's. Professor Pike's presentation will enable readers to form a balanced opinion of the proper course to pursue.
Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
The Chilean Revolution of 1891
Author: James Hamilton SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
General Index to the Published Volumes of the Diplomatic Correspondence and Foreign Relations of the United States. 1861-1899
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives, Diplomatic
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Diplomatic and Commercial Relations of the United States and Chile, 1820-1914
Author: William Roderick ShermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Author: Thomas M. LeonardPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903 is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth analysis of the developing relationship between the Americas during the critical period from the Mexican War to the Panama Canal treaty of 1903.
Historical Dictionary of United States-Latin American Relations
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810864711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
From the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Reagan Doctrine of the 1980s, the United States has presumed a position of political leadership and pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere. This has been made possible by two main factors: America's huge economy, which has made the U.S. the largest single commercial market and the biggest investor in Latin America, and America's military prowess, which has been convincingly demonstrated in victories in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Spanish-American War (1898). This volume concentrates on the history of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the nations of Latin America from the creation of the independent United States in the late eighteenth century up to the present. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries involved, significant events, major crises, important figures, controversial issues, and doctrines and policies that have evolved. For scholars, historians, and students interested in the diplomacy of these two regions, the Historical Dictionary of United States-Latin American Relations is an essential reference.
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