Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America

Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America
Author: Joseph M. Humire
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0739182676

In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion that has both foreign policy and national security implications for the United States and its allies. In this collection, noted specialists and regional experts examine the various facets of Iran’s contemporary presence in Central and South America, and detail what the Islamic Republic’s growing geopolitical footprint south of the U.S. border signifies, both for Iran and for the United States.

Latin America Through Soviet Eyes

Latin America Through Soviet Eyes
Author: Ilya Prizel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1990-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521373036

Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America during the Brezhnev years. Dr Prizel surveys the views of Soviet academics and journalists as well as of politicians on three main areas.

The USSR and Latin America

The USSR and Latin America
Author: Eusebio Mujal-León
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2022-12-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100080576X

The USSR and Latin America (1989) is an authoritative analysis of the Soviet Union’s strategy and policy towards the region. The contributors cover a variety of topics, including Latin America’s place in Soviet strategy for the developing world, US perceptions of Soviet strategy in the region, Soviet–Cuban relations, and relations between Latin American communist parties and the USSR.

Soviet Relations with Latin America, 1959-1987

Soviet Relations with Latin America, 1959-1987
Author: Nicola Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1989-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521359795

This book was first published in 1989. The Soviet presence and purposes in Latin America are a matter of great controversy, yet no serious study was hitherto combined with a regional perspective (concentrating on the nature and regional impact of Soviet activity on the ground) and diplomatic analysis, examining the strategic and ideological factors that influence Soviet foreign policy. Nicola Miller's lucid and accessible survey of Soviet-Latin American relations over the past quarter-century demonstrates clearly that existing, heavily 'geo-political' accounts distort the real nature of Soviet activity in the area, closely constrained by local political, social and geographical factors. In a broadly chronological series of case-studies Dr Miller argues that, American counter-influence apart, enormous physical and communicational barriers obstruct Soviet-Latin American relations and that the lack of economic complementarity imposes a natural obstacle to trading growth: even Cuba, often cited as 'proof' of Soviet designs upon the area, is only an apparent exception.

The BRICS and the Future of Global Order

The BRICS and the Future of Global Order
Author: Oliver Stuenkel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1498567282

The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S’), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decades. While the concept is now commonly used in the general public debate and international media, there has not yet been a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the history of the BRICS term. The BRICS and the Future of Global Order, Second Edition offers a definitive reference history of the BRICS as a term and as an institution—a chronological narrative and analytical account of the BRICS concept from its inception in 2001 to the political grouping it is today. In addition, it analyzes what the rise of powers like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa means for the future of global order. Will the BRICS countries seek to establish a parallel system with its own distinctive set of rules, institutions, and currencies of power, rejecting key tenets of liberal internationalism, are will they seek to embrace the rules and norms that define today’s Western-led order?

Handbook Of Research On The International Relations Of Latin America And The Caribbean

Handbook Of Research On The International Relations Of Latin America And The Caribbean
Author: G. Pope Atkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429979703

The study of Latin American and Caribbean international relations has a long evolution both within the development of international relations as a general academic undertaking and in terms of the particular characteristics that distinguish the approaches taken by scholars in the field. This handbook provides a thorough multidisciplinary reference guide to the literature on the various elements of the international relations of Latin America and the Caribbean. Citing over 1600 sources that date from the nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on recent decades, the volume's analytic essays trace the evolution of research in terms of concepts, issues, and themes. The Handbook is a companion volume to Atkins' Latin America and the Caribbean in the International System, Fourth Edition, but also serves as an invaluable stand-alone reference volume for students, scholars, researchers, journalists, and practitioners, both official and private.

The Russians Aren't Coming

The Russians Aren't Coming
Author: Wayne S. Smith
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781555872700

Pointing to the dramatic changes in Soviet policy in Latin America over the past few years, this work demonstrates that the fear of Soviet penetration of region, which drove US policy during the Cold War, has become groundless: Moscow wants normal state-to-state relations with the countries in Latin America, and may want an end to the conflict in Central America even more than Washington does.