Ralph H. Espach

Joseph S. Tulchin

Francisco Rojas Aravena

Examining Latin American security in the post-Cold War era, policymakers and analysts from across the Americas assess the security threats and agendas of different sub-regions—such as the Caribbean Basin, the Andean nations, and the Southern Cone—and evaluate the potential for wider hemispheric cooperation.

Strategic Balance and Confidence Building Measures in the Americas

Allison M. Garland

This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of social welfare reform in Latin America, examining in particular the politics involved in implementing difficult and controversial social policies that often pit the middle strata of society, represented by powerful stakeholders, against the poor.

The Politics of Reform

Social Development in Latin America

Explores the economic geographic, and political factors underlying the structure of the strained relationship between Argentina and the U.S. and analyzes how they have affected the actions of both countries.

A Conflicted Relationship

Argentina and the United States

Argentina has been modernizing at breakneck speed in the post-Peron, post-military years. This collection of articles looks at the modernization process and includes several articles by Argentine politicians and policymakers. Argentina: The Challenges of Modernization analyzes the difficulties the country faces in the 1990s, over a decade after the restoration of democracy and several years after the end of the Cold War.

The Challenges of Modernization

Argentina

Vinod K. Aggarwal

This volume analyzes trade agreements in Latin America since the mid-1980s, and provides a theoretical framework that highlights the political-economic tradeoffs entailed in different trade strategies formulated and pursued by different countries in the region. It contains detailed, empirically grounded studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the Mercosur block as a whole.

Joseph S. Tulchin

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