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Language, Values, and Policy Perspectives in Inter-American Research - EARL T. GLAUERT, and LESTER D. LANGLEY, eds. The United States and Latin America. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1971. Pp. 204. $2.95. - GORDON CONNELL-SMITH. The United States and Latin America: An Historical Analysis of Inter-American Relations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. Pp. 302. $16.75. - MELVIN GURTOV. The United States Against the Third World: Antinationalism and Intervention. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Pp. 260. $9.80. - NORMAN D. ARBAIZA Mars Moves South: The Future Wars of South America. Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, 1974. Pp. 87. $6.00. - E.B. RICE Extension in the Andes: An Evaluation of Official U.S. Assistance to Agricultural Extension Services in Central and South America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974. Pp. 552. - WILLIAM PADDOCK and ELIZABETH. We Don't Know How: An Independent Audit of What They Call Success In Foreign Assistance. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1973. Pp. 331. $4.95. - KALMAN H. SILVERT The Relevance of Latin American Domestic Politics to North American Foreign Policy. Washington Square, N.Y.: N.Y.U. Ibero-American Language and Area Center, 1974. Pp. 29. - Commission on United States-Latin American Relations. The Americas in a Changing World. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1974. Pp. 54. - JULIO COTLER, and RICHARD R. FAGEN, eds. Latin America and the United States: The Changing Political Realities. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. Pp. 417. $17.80.
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EARL T. GLAUERT, and LESTER D. LANGLEY, eds. The United States and Latin America. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1971. Pp. 204. $2.95.
GORDON CONNELL-SMITH. The United States and Latin America: An Historical Analysis of Inter-American Relations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. Pp. 302. $16.75.
MELVIN GURTOV. The United States Against the Third World: Antinationalism and Intervention. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Pp. 260. $9.80.
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1. Stone is quoted in Newsweek, 19 November 1973, p.139B. For a classic and still useful analysis of the dangers of imprecise political language, see Stuart Chase, The Tyranny of Words (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1938).
2. Glauert and Langley, eds., U.S. and Latin America, pp. 35, 141, 144.
3. Ibid., pp. 12, 182.
4. Connell-Smith, U.S. and Latin America, pp. xii-xiii, 9-12, and passim. See in particular Connell-Smith's comments on efforts by U.S. academics and policy-makers to deny any comparison between the 1965 U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic and Soviet behavior in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Ibid., pp. 270-71.
5. Ibid., pp. 8-9.
6. Ibid., p. xiv. A “disposition to virtue,” Maritain has observed, may be even more dangerous than a “disposition to vice,” in that a “disposition to virtue” may be “unrestrained by conscience.”
7. Gurtov, U.S. Against the Third World, pp. 4-9, 201, 210ff.
8. Ibid., p. 2.
9. Connell-Smith, p. 275, n. 17.
10. Gurtov, pp. 214-15.
11. Ibid., p. 125.
12. Both these subjects are taken up at length in Cotler and Fagen, eds., Latin America and the United States, to be discussed infra. On the military relationship see in particular the article by John Saxe-Fernández and commentary by Alfred Stepan. The role of the multinationals is discussed throughout the book.
13. Arbaiza, Mars Moves South, pp. 3-9, 77-83.
14. Ibid., pp. 75-76.
15. These arguments are advanced ibid., pp. 5-8.
16. For discussion of the Hartke-Burke Bill, supported by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and opposed by the corporate membership of the Council of the Americas, see the article by Luciano Martins in Cotler and Fagen, pp. 375-78.
17. On this point, see the report of the Commission on the U.S.-Latin American Relations, discussed infra.
18. Rice, Extension in the Andes, pp. 83, 94-100, 117-22.
19. Ibid., pp. 244-45, 428.
20. Connell-Smith, p. xiii.
21. Paddock and Paddock, We Don't Know How, pp. 299-300. One of the Paddocks' better stories, which also serves as a side comment on the role of some social scientists in the “aid” business, concerns the AID mission director in predominantly agricultural Guatemala, who told them bluntly: “I don't know a cow from a bunny rabbit…. I'm a political economist.” Ibid., p. 12.
22. Ibid., pp. 303-4.
23. Ibid., pp. 289-95.
24. Silvert, Relevance of Latin American Domestic Politics, pp. 27-28. Also see Chase, Appendix.
25. Silvert, p. 20 (italics in original).
26. U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Policies and Programs in Brazil, 92nd Congress, 1st session (Washington, 1971), p. 21.
27. The U.S. AID police training program has, in fact, recently been ended. It could be revived at any time, however, in another form.
28. Silvert, pp. 23-25.
29. See the Luciano Martins article in Cotler and Fagen for a lengthy discussion of OPIC as it relates to the larger issues of hemispheric relations.
30. Commission on U.S.-Latin American Relations, The Americas, p. 2.
31. Ibid., pp. 17-18.
32. Ibid., pp. 18-20.
33. Ibid., pp. 44, 49-50.
34. Ibid., p. 46.
35. For Mr. Dooley's comment, see Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley at his Best (New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1938), pp. 104-5. The commission membership included four attorneys (one of whom is also a corporate vice-president and a former U.S. attorney general), five corporation executives (four chairmen and a vice-president), three bankers, eiott academics (four social scientists, three university presidents and one chancellor), a former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a museum director, and a former U.S. attorney general now serving as a distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
36. Cotler and Fagen, pp. 6-7.
37. Ibid., pp. 79, 370ff. Martins's comment is on p. 368.
38. Ibid., pp. 327-28, 342, 49.
39. Ibid., pp. 129-63, 176-204, and 212-35. The works by Allison to which they refer are Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), and “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” in American Political Science Review 43, no.3 (1969): 689-718. Lowenthal's criticism of the “liberal perspective,” which he also applies to the “radical perspective,” is in Cotler and Fagen, pp. 225ff.
40. Ibid., pp. 160, 163.
41. Ibid., pp. 135ff, esp. 138-39. The reference is to David Green, The Containment of Latin America: A History of the Myths and Realities of the Good Neighbor Policy (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1971).
42. See ibid., esp. pp. 215-34, 237-54. While linking his “New Left” paradigm to the notion of a “self-preoccupied unitary actor,” May also charges that the “conventional unitary actor explanation supposes that Argentina acted in response to what was done by the United States.” See Cotler and Fagen, pp. 138, 163. According to May's own logic, the Argentine government should have been as “self-preoccupied” as was the U.S. government. Apparently, however, May's version of the “New Left” paradigm is one in which only the U.S. is “self-preoccupied.” Apart from the arbitrary nature of this notion of “self-preoccupation,” May's analysis seems peculiarly contradictory in view of his acknowledgment of my contention that U.S. policy-makers were extremely concerned about Argentine economic and political independence. Ibid., p. 138.
43. Cotler and Fagen, p. 209.
44. Ibid., pp. 151-55, and Green, pp. 215-22 and 244-54.
45. Cotler and Fagen, p. 163.
46. Ibid., pp. 264, 260.
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