Week 4 LECTURE

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PPT for CC class

Questions

• What explains the US’s persistent involvement in Latin American politics?
• How did US involvement in Latin America change over time? Why?
• Was there a gap between the aims of the US and the results? Why (or why not)?
• Do you think that political or economic influence was more significant? (or did this change over time/ place - e.g. think about your "adopted" country)?

RD Seminar Slides

Required Reading

• Primary source: Monroe, James, “Seventh Annual Message to Congress” (the “Monroe Doctrine”), 1823 [You only need to read pp. 21-22 of this document!]
• The Monroe Doctrine, 1823, The Platt Amendment, 1903 and the Roosevelt Corollary, 1905, National Archives
• The Platt Amendment, 1903
• Galeano, Eduardo, The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. trans. Cedrick Belfrage, Monthly Review Press (New York, 1973), Chapter 5, The Contemporary Structure of Plunder

• Danielle Scalise, "Eduardo Galeano's Criticism of his "Open Veins" Taken Lightly", October 19 2016, Panorama Scholarly Platform, University of Pittsburgh.

Further Reading

• Lafeber, Walter, Inevitable Revolutions: The US in Central America, Norton (New York, 1993), Introduction and chapters 1-2.
• Long, Tom. Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• McPherson, Alan. Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations, Oxford University Press, 2013. 
• Pastor, Robert, Whirlpool: US Foreign Policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1992).
• Pearce, Jenny, Under the Eagle: Us Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, South End Press (London, 1982), part I.
• Smith, Peter, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of US-Latin American Relations, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1996), chapters 1-3.