Addicted to Failure U. S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region

Name: Addicted to Failure U. S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region
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ISBN: 9780742565890

ISBN-10: 0742565890

ISBN-13: 9780742565890

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Authors: Brian Loveman

List price: $83.00

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This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. Leading scholars explain how policies intended to promote the rule of law instead generate corruption and institutional crisis, why policies seeking to promote democratization and stabilization instead generate populist authoritarianism and destabilization, and why the war on drugs and the war on terror have neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in the region. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this indispensable book focuses on the reasons for the failure of U.S. policies and their disastrous significance for both…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 394

Brian Loveman is professor emeritus of political science at San Diego State University and author or editor of more than twenty books on Latin American history and politics, inter-American relations, and U.S. foreign policy. In 2009 he received Chile's highest award given to noncitizens, the Condecoracion de la Orden al Merito de Chile, en el Grado de Gran Oficial.