Robert Pastor: 4 books
Not Condemned To Repetition
The United States And Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in...
Exiting The Whirlpool
U.s. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America And The Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In this second edition of Exiting the Whirlpool, Pastor explores the continuities and the changes in U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America under Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Whereas many foreign policy volumes neglect the role of Congress, Pastor devotes an entire chapter to explaining...
The North American Idea
A Vision of a Continental Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Since then, trade has slowed among the three, manufacturing...
Limits to Friendship
The United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and American political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries.
Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving...