Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820328096)

In the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources in the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Great Britain to provide a broad perspective on the two centuries of shared U.S.-Argentine history with fresh focus in particular on cultural ties, nuclear politics in the cold war era, the politics of human rights, and Argentina's exit in 1991 from the nonaligned movement.

From the perspectives of both countries, Sheinin discusses such topics as Pan-Americanism, petroleum, communism and fascism, and foreign debt. Although the general trajectory of the two countries' relationship has been one of cooperative interaction based on generally strong and improving commercial and financial ties, shared strategic interests, and vital cultural contacts, Sheinin also emphasizes episodes of strained ties. These include the Cuban Revolution, the Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the Falklands/Malvinas War. In his epilogue, Sheinin examines Argentina's monetary crash of December 2001, when the United States-in a major policy shift-refused to come to Argentina's rescue.

Author: David M. K. Sheinin
ISBN-10: 082032809X
ISBN-13: 9780820328096
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 67