Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations

1. Front Matter

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2. Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations

   1. Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations

      • Juan Pablo Scarfi, Andrew R. Tillman

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3. Disciplinary Foundations and Approaches to US-Latin American Relations: Between International Relations and History

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Another American Social Science

      • Charles Jones

      Pages 33-70

   3. Commonality, Specificity, and Difference

      • Tanya Harmer

      Pages 71-108

4. Pan-Americanism and the Idea of the Western Hemisphere

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The “Vanguard of Pan-Americanism”

      • Mark Jeffrey Petersen

      Pages 111-137

   3. Hemisphere, Region, and Nation

      • Ricardo D. Salvatore

      Pages 139-168

5. Human Rights, International Law, and the Inter-American System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Pan-American Legal Designs

      • Juan Pablo Scarfi

      Pages 171-208

   3. The Inter-American Human Rights System and US-Latin American Relations

      • Par Engstrom

      Pages 209-247

6. Back Matter

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This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere. First articulated by Arthur P. Whitaker in 1954 but with origins in the earlier work of Herbert E. Bolton, it is the idea that "the peoples of this Hemisphere stand in a special relationship to one another which sets them apart from the rest of the word" (Whitaker, 1954). For most scholars of US-Latin American relations, this is a curious concept. They often conceptualize US-Latin American relations through the prism of realism and interventionism. While this volume does not deny that the United States has often acted as an imperial power in Latin America, it is unique in that it challenges scholars to re-think their preconceived notions of inter-American relations and explores the possibility of a common international society for the Americas, especially in the realm of international relations. Unlike most volumes on US-Latin American relations, the book develops its argument in an interdisciplinary manner, bringing together different approaches from disciplines including international relations, global and diplomatic history, human rights studies, and cultural and intellectual history.

• U.S.-Latin American Relations
• Hemispheric History
• Western Hemisphere
• Pan-Americanism
• Global History
• Intellectual History
• International Relations
• Social Sciences
• International Law
• Politics
• Historiography
• American History
• Design
• global history
• hegemony
• history
• human rights
• international relations
• Nation
• politics
• social science

“This edited volume is one of several recent publications that demonstrate a renewed interest in the relationship between the US and Latin American states … . the volume provides a comprehensive, critical and easily accessible review of the Hemisphere idea that will be of interest to students of American international history, intellectual history in the Americas and Latin American international relations.” (Nicole Jenne, Revista De Ciencia Politica, Vol. 36 (2), 2016) 

Juan Pablo Scarfi received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He was a Visiting Scholar at University College London (Institute of the Americas), UK, and Columbia University, USA. He is the author of El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un orden jurídico interamericano (2014).

Andrew R. Tillman is a Senior Research Associate at the White House, USA.

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