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The Bush Administration and Latin America: The Pragmatic Style and the Regionalist Option*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert A. Pastor
Robert A. Pastor*
Affiliation:
Emory University, Carter Center
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After 8 Years of United States unilateralism in Central America and ideological confrontation on Capitol Hill, by 1989, newly-elected leaders in Latin America and Democrats in Congress yearned for a US president who would listen to their concerns, not just lecture them on the contras. George Bush's pragmatic style was therefore a welcome departure from the ideological intensity of his predecessor. With the democratic and pragmatic leaders of Latin America, Bush grappled with debt, democratic transitions, and drug trafficking, and together they sought new ways to relate the Hemisphere to a rapidly changing world.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , Fall 1991 , pp. 1 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1991

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Footnotes

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This article is a revised version of a chapter written by the author for Eagle in a New Land: American Foreign Policy in the Post Coldwar World (Kenneth Oye, Robert J. Lieber, and Donald Rothchild [eds.], Harper Collins, 1992). For helpful comments on an earlier draft, the author wishes to express appreciation to Robert Lieber, Donald Rothchild, Abraham F. Lowenthal, Juan del Aguila, Jennifer McCoy, Jennie K. Lincoln, and Jennifer Cannady.

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