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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations
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Disciplinary Foundations and Approaches to US-Latin American Relations: Between International Relations and History
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Pan-Americanism and the Idea of the Western Hemisphere
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Human Rights, International Law, and the Inter-American System
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Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
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About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations
Book Subtitle: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea
Editors: Juan Pablo Scarfi, Andrew R. Tillman
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137510747
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51073-0Published: 03 February 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51074-7Published: 29 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 260
Topics: International Relations, History of the Americas, Latin American Culture, European Politics, World History, Global and Transnational History, Diplomacy