Each was allied with one another-and with the United States-via the 1947 anticommunist Rio Treaty. The first of these books-Christopher DarntonвЂ™s Rivalries and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America-focuses less on examining the Cold War than on using the Cold War context of inter-American relations to unravel an intriguing foreign policy question: Why do rivalries between states persist in the face of a common threat, and under what conditions do such rivalries end to yield more cooperative relations? Toward this end, Darnton examines the relationships of eleven Latin American states from the 1940s through the 1980s: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The result is an array of themes and topics that will resonate with historians, humanities scholars, policy analysts, and social scientists alike. Their analysis benefits from extensive archival and field research, the declassification of documents in the United States and other countries, and sometimes rigorous theorizing. Along the way, they enrich the literature of several fields of inquiry, unearth new insights into the Cold War drama, and reveal that Latin American actors retained and exercised an agency that conventional wisdom sometimes obscures under presumed US dominance. Instead, they tell us a great deal we did not already know about this period, or knew imperfectly. The books reviewed here neither replicate nor supplant this traditional narrative. While AmericaвЂ™s intervention and containment policies targeted its ideological opponents in the Western Hemisphere, regional anticommunist regimes encouraged, installed, or supported by Washington employed implements of repression against subversives real and imagined: campesinos, dissidents, innocents, leftists, politicians and political parties, students, and workers bore the brunt of these efforts, often with devastating effects. As a peripheral arena in the broader EastвЂ“West contest, the Cold War in Latin America pitted the United States and its anticommunist but often undemocratic regional allies against real and perceived Soviet proxies in Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and beyond. ISBN: 9781107458093.ДЄlthough much of the Cold War played out between the United States and Soviet Union in the European theater, the general outlines of Latin AmericaвЂ™s Cold War experience are well known, too. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over U.S. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781107079588.Д«ack Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana. MexicoвЂ™s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America.

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