1st Edition

The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations

Edited By Juan Pablo Scarfi, David M. K. Sheinin Copyright 2022
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and later the Organization of American States. But what made Pan-Americanism exceptional? The... Read more

Introduction: The Pan-American Shift from Apology for Empire to Imperial Critique to Latin American Agency

Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin

1. Imperial Pan-Americanism

Aida Rodríguez

2. Architects, Exchange, and the Consolidation of Pan-American Cooperation, 1914–40

Mark J. Petersen

3. Becoming the Third World: Pan-Americanism, South Americanism, and Liberal Economics in the 1920s

Teresa Davis

4. Pan-American Intellectual Cooperation: Emergence, Institutionalization, and Fields of Action

Juliette Dumont

5. Popular Pan-Americanism, North and South: International Relations and the Idea of "American Unity" in Argentina and the United States, 1939–45

Lisa Ubelaker

6. The Colombo-Lanusse Doctrine: Cold War Anti-interventionism and the End of Pan-Americanism

David M. K. Sheinin

7. Pan-American Human Rights: The Legacy of Pan-Americanism and the Intellectual Origins of the Inter-American Human Rights System

Juan Pablo Scarfi

8. Epilogue: Pan-Americanism and the Changing Nature of US Hegemony

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Biography

Juan Pablo Scarfi is Research Associate at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Lecturer in Global History & International Relations, University of San Andres, Argentina.

David M. K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University.