2nd Edition

Latin America In The International Political System Second Edition, Fully Revised And Updated

By G. Pope Atkins Copyright 1989
444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

Organizing the discussion around the idea of the region as a separate subsystem within the global international political system, this book gives special emphasis to subregions within Latin America, especially Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Southern Cone.

Part One: A Framework for Analysis 1. The International Political System 2. The Latin American Regional Subsystem Part Two: The Actors 3. The Latin American States 4. Nonhemispheric States 5. The United States 6. Nonstate Actors Part Three: International Institutions 7. Latin American Integration and Association 8. The Inter-American System 9. Global and Extraregional Arrangements Part Four: Instruments And Interaction 10. Bargaining 11. Violence and Accommodation 12. International Regimes Part Five: Conclusion 13. Explanations and Prescriptions

Biography

G. Pope Atkins is professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy. He has lived and worked in Argentina and Ecuador and has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London, the Fondo para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales in Santo Domingo, and the international relations department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also been a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Atkins has written extensively on Latin American international and comparative politics, including two books on the Dominican Republic.