LATIN AMERICA IN WORLD POLITICS

by Norman A. Bailey ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 20, 1967

The stated and to be believed intention of the author is to do more than just write another text book: he seeks to place the subject of Latin American matters into ""an analytical framework of explanatory and predictive power."" What he succeeds in doing is to write just another text book in spite of a rather pretentious mission to saturate his work with the ""the erotical. ""With such usage as ""client,"" ""a paramount versus a floater,"" ""sub-paramountey,"" the inevitable ""parameters,"" and the quota of Germanic academic phrases, this work easily falls into the conventional mold of diplomatic history plus contemporary judgments. Dealing with the Guatemalan and Cuban incidents, the author will make no enemies in the State Department for his treatment of the April 1965 Dominican intervention. Here we witness a complete collapse of his pro-scientific efforts, in favor of a bobbing and weaving after Administration policy. Less archival than Lloyd Mecham's recent Survey of United States-Latin American Relations, the present author's study is certainly more interesting than the former during his non-theoretical moments, if more occasional. The author is at least to be commended for attempting more than some others have to establish inter -American relations with a broader world occurrence.

Pub Date: April 20, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Walker

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION