Abraham F Lowenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham F Lowenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowenthal |
| SIGNATURE | LOWENTHAL A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 199 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 418 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 198 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders
The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered
Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered
Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs: Finding Common Cause
Considering Careers beyond Academia: Advice for Graduate Students
The author draws upon his experience and observations outside academia to provide ten suggestions for graduate students in political science who are exploring nonacademic career options. Their mentors may also find this advice useful
Désagréger l'Amérique latine. Diversité des trajectoires et groupes émergents
Depuis que l’on a désigné, au xixe siècle, la région située au sud des États-Unis et du Canada sous le nom d’« Amérique latine », le terme a toujours semblé davantage correspondre à une réalité vue de l’extérieur de l’hémisphère occidental que de l’intérieur de celui-ci. Depuis l’extérieur – et particulièrement depuis l’Europe –, les nations latino-américaines apparaissent souvent plus étroitement liées les unes aux autres qu’elles ne le sont si …
The Obama Administration and the Americas: A Promising Start
Alan McPherson, Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945
January 01 2008 Alan McPherson, Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945 Abraham F. Lowenthal Abraham F. Lowenthal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Abraham F. Lowenthal Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (1): 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.20…
Geopolitical realities and US foreign policy: Comments on a paper by Professor Saul B. Cohen
Latin America at the Century's Turn
A skeptical, even pessimistic mood has been gathering in and about Latin America. Only two or three years ago, many observers were trumpeting the region's determined march toward free-market economics and constitutional democratic politics. Today, however, one must recognize the region's lackluster overall economic performance, the reversion toward authoritarian practices in some countries, and the pervasive limits on both free markets and effect…
A Visible Presence
Constructing Democratic Governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s: Themes and Issues
In Constructing Democratic Governance, Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal bring together a distinguished group of scholars to assess how well democracy has been working in this volatile part of the world. The authors find that serious problems still plague these new democracies. Many of these problems are related to the political institutions, including political parties, the civil service, and the justice system. Part I introduces broad…
Latin America in a New World
The California-Mexico Connection
Journal Article The California-Mexico Connection. Ed. by Abraham F. Lowenthal and Katrina Burgess. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-21882. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8047-2187-4.) Get access Oscar J. Martinez Oscar J. Martinez University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, …
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions Leslie Elliott Armijo (bio), Thomas J. Biersteker (bio), and Abraham F. Lowenthal (bio) Almost everywhere, command economies and overtly authoritarian politics are in retreat. Constitutional democracy and market capitalism now hold sway, at least as ideals, even in places where these concepts were anathema less than a decade ago. This is as true for Central and Eastern Europe as it is for Latin America, su…
Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru
United States Economic Measures against Cuba: Proceedings in the United Nations and International Law Issues
Fear at the Edge: State Terror and Resistance in Latin America
Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authorit…
A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil
Examines the post-World War II business and philanthropic activities of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kaiser in Brazil. Cobbs argues that between 1945-1960, while the US government abandoned Roosevelt's Good Neighbour Policy, Rockefeller and Kaiser stepped in with a Rich Neighbour Policy
Drug Policy in the Americas
The Political Economy of Foreign Investment in Mexico: Nationalism, Liberalism, Constraints on Choice
Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
Stunning for its magisterial sweep Americas is the most authoritative history to date of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas weaves a captivating narrative that analyzes the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. With incisiveness and clarity, Peter Winn offers commanding analyses of, among other subje…
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948
The California-Mexico Connection
Not since the early nineteenth century, when California was still part of Mexico, have there been such close ties between Mexico and its former northern territory. Today, one Californian in five is of Mexican heritage, compared with fewer than one in ten in 1970. California is Mexico's second-largest trading partner (after Texas) and Mexico is California's second-largest trading partner (after Japan). This book is the first in any language to exp…
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions Leslie Elliott Armijo (bio), Thomas J. Biersteker (bio), and Abraham F. Lowenthal (bio) Almost everywhere, command economies and overtly authoritarian politics are in retreat. Constitutional democracy and market capitalism now hold sway, at least as ideals, even in places where these concepts were anathema less than a decade ago. This is as true for Central and Eastern Europe as it is for Latin America, su…
Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America
The idea that the United States can and should help Latin America achieve democracy has been a recurrent theme in U.S. foreign policy throughout the twentieth century. By the 1990s, it had become virtually unchallenged doctrine, broadly supported on a bipartisan basis. Yet no systematic and comparative study of U.S. attempts to promote Latin American democracy has ever been published -- and the policy community often seems unaware of this history…
Armies and Politics in Latin America
An extensive literature analyzes military participation in Latin American politics. Case studies and a few comparative works undermine the faith of a decade ago—that military involvement in Latin American politics would decline as a result of economic development, social modernization, military professionalization, and American influence. Attention has turned increasingly to die variety of military involvements: direct and indirect; personal, fac…
A Nation of Enemies: Chile under Pinochet
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948
Americas: New Interpretive Essays
Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
An examination of the Brazilian revolution of 1964 which was not the revolutionary effort that Kennedy had sought. Yet it bore an American, anti-communist imprint. When the president was overthrown, Washington embraced the new regime and gave generous support throughout the 1960s. Kennedy had pressed his aides to define a new doctrine of counterinsurgency. As constructed to fit the American reading of the Brazilian situation, the doctrine called …
Understanding Central America
Crisis and Transformation Poverty and Its Causes The Common History Individual Histories of Central American Nations Revolution, Regime Change, and Democratization: A Theory Revolution and Democratic Transition in Nicaragua Insurrection and Regime Change in El Salvador Insurrection and Regime Change in Guatemala Maintaining Stability in Costa Rica and Honduras Power, Democracy, and U.S. Policy in Central America Reflections and Projections
The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-1990
This revised edition of The Struggle for Democracy in Chile should prove even more useful to the student of Latin American history and politics than the original. It updates important background information on the evolution of Chile's military dictatorship in the 1970s and its erosion in the 1980s. Brian Loveman, an authority on contemporary Chilean politics, offers a comprehensive examination of the transition to civilian government in Chile fro…
To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy
Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum
Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico
The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World
The Alliance for Progress: A Retrospective
Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy Foreword by Congressman Dante B. Fassell Preface Part I: The Origins and the Concept Part II: The Machinery Part III: Implementation Part IV: The Lessons
Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua, 1981-1987
Argentina and the United States: A Conflicted Relationship
Social Change in Brazil, 1945-1985: The Incomplete Transition
The Comparative Analysis of Military Regimes: Formations, Aspirations, and Achievements
Recent literature demonstrates that modern military regimes are actually military-civilian coalitions. The old dichotomy of civil/military is no longer a useful explanation for the politics and the dynamics of military regimes. Role expansion, new professionalism, and mission orientation have changed military missions, doctrines, and self-perception. The author proposes and develops a comparative analysis and a typology of contemporary military r…
Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
Stunning for its magisterial sweep Americas is the most authoritative history to date of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas weaves a captivating narrative that analyzes the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. With incisiveness and clarity, Peter Winn offers commanding analyses of, among other subje…
Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean
Robert Pastor maintains that the collapse of Communism is less important in permitting the United States to escape the whirlpool of Latin American politics than are the new trends of democracy and freer trade in the region
Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba
The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power
Armies and Politics in Latin America
The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil
Examines the post-World War II business and philanthropic activities of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kaiser in Brazil. Cobbs argues that between 1945-1960, while the US government abandoned Roosevelt's Good Neighbour Policy, Rockefeller and Kaiser stepped in with a Rich Neighbour Policy
The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil
Alliance Rhetoric versus Latin American Reality
Letters-2
The Political Role of the Dominican Armed Forces: A Note on the 1963 Overthrow of Juan Bosch and on the 1965 Dominican “Revolution
Several years ago, in a general essay on Dominican politics, I wrote a few pages about the political role of the Dominican Armed Forces. I argued that “the history of the past few years in the Dominican Republic may best be viewed as a constant struggle among changing alliances, not in terms of confrontation between civilian authority and the military establishment” (Lowenthal, 1969: 40). I suggested that “far from being a professional institutio…
The Politics of Reform in Peru: The Aprista and Other Mass Parties of Latin America. Grant Hilliker
The Dominican Intervention
Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the DominicanRepublic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. In a new prefac…
United States Policy Toward Latin America: Liberal," "Radical," and "Bureaucratic" Perspectives
This essay reviews and analyzes recent north american writing on united States-Latin American relations, particularly on the Alliance for Progress. It does not attempt to summarize or evaluate the Alliance's history as such, nor does it deal with Latin American perspectives on the Alliance (or more generally on inter-American relations), though I hope to treat these subjects in future works. What this article does instead is to analyze the dwindl…
The Dominican Intervention
Journal Article The Dominican Intervention. By Abraham F. Lowenthal. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. x + 246 pp. Map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.) Get access Irwin F. Gellman Irwin F. Gellman Morgan State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 844–845, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900014 Published: 01 Dec…
Armies and Politics in Latin America
An extensive literature analyzes military participation in Latin American politics. Case studies and a few comparative works undermine the faith of a decade ago—that military involvement in Latin American politics would decline as a result of economic development, social modernization, military professionalization, and American influence. Attention has turned increasingly to die variety of military involvements: direct and indirect; personal, fac…
Peru's Ambiguous Revolution
Cuba: Time for a Change
Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis
Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis
The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military Rule
The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military Rule
The United States and Latin America: Ending the Hegemonic Presumption
Cuba's African Adventure
Armies and Politics in Latin America
The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military Rule
Latin America: A Not - So - Special Relationship
Armies and Politics in Latin America
An extensive literature analyzes military participation in Latin American politics. Case studies and a few comparative works undermine the faith of a decade ago—that military involvement in Latin American politics would decline as a result of economic development, social modernization, military professionalization, and American influence. Attention has turned increasingly to die variety of military involvements: direct and indirect; personal, fac…
Dateline Peru: A Sagging Revolution
The Comparative Analysis of Military Regimes: Formations, Aspirations, and Achievements
Recent literature demonstrates that modern military regimes are actually military-civilian coalitions. The old dichotomy of civil/military is no longer a useful explanation for the politics and the dynamics of military regimes. Role expansion, new professionalism, and mission orientation have changed military missions, doctrines, and self-perception. The author proposes and develops a comparative analysis and a typology of contemporary military r…
Changing Patterns in Inter-American Relations
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAbraham F. LowenthalAbraham F. Lowenthal is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, on leave from directing the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Misplaced Emphasis
Yo Asumi el Activo y el Pasivo de la Revolución
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