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In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance’s goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy’s grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure.
Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy’s intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America — a region he repeatedly referred to as “the most dangerous area in the world.” As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.
Editions of The Most Dangerous Area in the World
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807824610
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780807847640
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469617367
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890870537
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In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance’s goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy’s grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure.
Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy’s intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America — a region he repeatedly referred to as “the most dangerous area in the world.” As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.
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In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance’s goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy’s grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure.
Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy’s intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America — a region he repeatedly referred to as “the most dangerous area in the world.” As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.
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Society and Social Sciences > Politics and government > International relations
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The Most Dangerous Area in the World has 272 page(s)
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Stephen G. Rabe
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The Most Dangerous Area in the World is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807824610) and paperback(ISBN 9780807847640) and ebook(ISBN 9781469617367) and pdf(ISBN 9798890870537)
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