Robert A Pastor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 478749 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert A Pastor |
| NOMBRES | Robert A |
| APELLIDO | Pastor |
| FIRMA | PASTOR R A |
| AFILIACIONES | American University, Washington, DC, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 229 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The United States and Central America
Migration and Development in the Caribbean
This book represents the product of a two-year research project and a four-year personal journey to explore the relationship between migration and economic development in the Caribbean area. Does Caribbean immigration to the United States assist or impede the economic development of the Caribbean? Would the curtailment of immigration affect the stability of the Caribbean? Can a certain mix of development strategies significantly reduce the pressu…
Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem
Journal Article Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire Get access Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire by Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira. New York, Lexington Books, 2012. 172 pp. $60.00. Robert A. Pastor Robert A. Pastor American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
The Cold War and its Aftermath in the Americas
More than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transfer of the Cold War file from a daily preoccupation of policy makers to a more detached assessment by historians. Scholars of U.S.-Latin American relations are beginning to take advantage both of the distance in time and of newly opened archives to reflect on the four decades that, from the 1940s to the 1980s, divided the Americas, as they did much of the world. Othe…
Voting and ID Requirements
Since the 2000 election, one of the most contentious issues in election administration has been voter identification requirements. This article provides the results of a survey of registered voters in Indiana, Maryland, and Mississippi, which aimed to explore the extent to which ID requirements pose a problem (if any) to registered voters. The survey found that only 1.2% of registered voters in all three states lack a photo ID and in Indiana, whi…
North America's Second Decade
In just ten years, NAFTA has created the world's most formidable free trade area. But in the absence of true partnerships and multilateral institutions, movement toward further regional integration has slowed. The United States, Mexico, and Canada have many common interests; they need to pursue them in common ways
Toward a North American Community
Toward a North American Community
The Mexican peso crisis struck in late December 1994, coinciding with a new Mexican administration and the end of the first year of the American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The crisis poignantly highlighted the success and the inadequacy of the treaty--success in the expansion of trade and capital flows, and inadequacy in institutional capacity. The Canadian, Mexican, and US governments defined the agreement so narrowly that they failed to devi…
A Century's Journey
1. The Great Powers in the Twentieth Century: from Dawn to Dusk Robert A. Pastor * 2. Great Britain: Decline and Recovery Robert J. Lieber * 3. France: Two Obsessions for One Century Stanley Hoffmann * 4. Germany: The Continuities for Frederick the Great to the Federal Republic Josef Joffe * 5. The Three Ruussias: Decline, Revolution, and Reconstruction Robert Legvold * 6. The United States: Divided By a Revolutionary Vision Robert A. Pastor * 7.…
Exiting the Labyrinth
In November 1992, a group of Mexican leaders representing a wide political spectrum was invited by the Carter Center and the state of Georgia to observe the U.S. presidential elections. The Center's ulterior purpose, which was not unknown to the Mexicans, was to elicit a reciprocal invitation to observe Mexico's 1994 presidential elections
The Self-Restraining State
The role of electoral administration in democratic transitions
Much has been written about the causes and consequences of democracy, but a crucial variable for explaining the success or the failure of democratic transitions has been omitted ‐ the administration of elections. In a poor country with low levels of education, the administration of an election is no simple matter, and accidents occur at the intersection between political suspicion and technical incapacity. Many elections fail because one party in…
Mediating Elections
Mediating Elections Robert A. Pastor (bio) As democracy has spread to 117 countries over the last two decades, questions about the relative importance of elections in the democratic process have diminished. While some commentators continue to speak disparagingly of "electoralism" or regard insistence upon elections as a token of Western ethnocentrism, most students of government today agree that elections are essential instruments of democracy. T…
Democratizing Mexico
The Clinton Administration and the Americas
For 40 years, the United States was so fearful of a thermonuclear bang that it barely noticed the whimper when the Cold War ended. There was not even any agreement on the date of the war's end. Still, the people of the United States sensed its eagle had completed a great adventure and was returning to its nest, and that's where they wanted it.President George Bush was more sensitive to the shift in the balance of power in the Persian Gulf than to…
Cold War Stories
Collective Responses to Regional Problems
The U.S. and the Caribbean
The Spanish-American War heralded the beginning of America's global role and its preoccupation with the Caribbean area. There are a host of theories to explain U.S. involvement in the Caribbean, but over time, the whirlpool pattern of intense involvement followed by disinterest suggests that security considerations have remained paramount. U.S. policy in the twentieth century can be divided into three periods: the protectorate era (1898-1933); th…
Whirlpool
The United States and Central America
Democracy in the Caribbean
For review see: David Scott Palmer, in The Hispanic American historical review (HAHR), 75, 1 (February 1995); p. 134-135
A Discordant Consensus on Democracy
Democracy has long been a declared goal of U.S. foreign policy. On this point, the authors of the six books listed above agree. But true to democracy's spirit of diversity, the books disagree on the fundamental questions of whether the United States has, can, or should promote democracy in Latin America. The discordance is perhaps best captured in the fact that the three authors whose perspectives are most divergent all use the same misleading ph…
Moderating Ethnic Tensions by Electoral Mediation
The Latin American Option
Whirlpool
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
The role of electoral administration in democratic transitions
Much has been written about the causes and consequences of democracy, but a crucial variable for explaining the success or the failure of democratic transitions has been omitted ‐ the administration of elections. In a poor country with low levels of education, the administration of an election is no simple matter, and accidents occur at the intersection between political suspicion and technical incapacity. Many elections fail because one party in…
Mediating Elections
Mediating Elections Robert A. Pastor (bio) As democracy has spread to 117 countries over the last two decades, questions about the relative importance of elections in the democratic process have diminished. While some commentators continue to speak disparagingly of "electoralism" or regard insistence upon elections as a token of Western ethnocentrism, most students of government today agree that elections are essential instruments of democracy. T…
Pollwatching and Peacemaking
Pollwatching and Peacemaking Jennifer McCoy (bio), Larry Garber (bio), and Robert Pastor (bio) Even before the Gulf War rekindled hopes that the United Nations could enforce the elusive principle of collective security, sovereign states had begun to request another form of security assistance from the international community-help in resolving internal conflicts and guaranteeing processes of democratization. International organizations like the UN…
Toward a North American Community
The Mexican peso crisis struck in late December 1994, coinciding with a new Mexican administration and the end of the first year of the American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The crisis poignantly highlighted the success and the inadequacy of the treaty--success in the expansion of trade and capital flows, and inadequacy in institutional capacity. The Canadian, Mexican, and US governments defined the agreement so narrowly that they failed to devi…
Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1929-1976
Nicaragua's Choice
Nicaragua's ChoiceThe Making of a Free Election Robert A. Pastor (bio) In the early morning hours of 26 February 1990, the first tentative signs of a new spirit of conciliation and comity emerged in Nicaragua. Prior to that moment, suspicion had dominated the country's political history. The government and its opposition each believed the worst about the other and repeatedly acted in ways that helped to confirm those beliefs and justify mutual di…
Democracy in the Americas
Limits to Friendship
A Century's Journey
1. The Great Powers in the Twentieth Century: from Dawn to Dusk Robert A. Pastor * 2. Great Britain: Decline and Recovery Robert J. Lieber * 3. France: Two Obsessions for One Century Stanley Hoffmann * 4. Germany: The Continuities for Frederick the Great to the Federal Republic Josef Joffe * 5. The Three Ruussias: Decline, Revolution, and Reconstruction Robert Legvold * 6. The United States: Divided By a Revolutionary Vision Robert A. Pastor * 7.…
Whirlpool
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
Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Americans have been so transfixed by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and subsequently riveted to the Persian Gulf crisis - that they have failed to notice the crumbling of the walls that have segmented Mexico and separated it from the United States. Yet Mexico's opening may be more significant for the United States because of its potential for infusing both economies and reshaping the two societies. Challenging a long tradition of state control and…
Voting and ID Requirements
Since the 2000 election, one of the most contentious issues in election administration has been voter identification requirements. This article provides the results of a survey of registered voters in Indiana, Maryland, and Mississippi, which aimed to explore the extent to which ID requirements pose a problem (if any) to registered voters. The survey found that only 1.2% of registered voters in all three states lack a photo ID and in Indiana, whi…
The Latin American Option
Condemned to Repetition
Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem
Journal Article Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire Get access Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire by Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira. New York, Lexington Books, 2012. 172 pp. $60.00. Robert A. Pastor Robert A. Pastor American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Does the United States Push Revolutions to Cuba? The Case of Grenada
One of the most difficult and frustrating challenges to US foreign policy in the post-World War II period has been coping with third world revolutions, particularly those in the Caribbean Basin. Whether the revolution has been in Cuba, Nicaragua, or Grenada, relations with the US have always deteriorated, and the revolutionary governments have moved closer to the Soviet bloc and toward a Communist political model. Both the deteriorating relations…
The Cold War and its Aftermath in the Americas
More than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transfer of the Cold War file from a daily preoccupation of policy makers to a more detached assessment by historians. Scholars of U.S.-Latin American relations are beginning to take advantage both of the distance in time and of newly opened archives to reflect on the four decades that, from the 1940s to the 1980s, divided the Americas, as they did much of the world. Othe…
North America's Second Decade
In just ten years, NAFTA has created the world's most formidable free trade area. But in the absence of true partnerships and multilateral institutions, movement toward further regional integration has slowed. The United States, Mexico, and Canada have many common interests; they need to pursue them in common ways
The Clinton Administration and the Americas
For 40 years, the United States was so fearful of a thermonuclear bang that it barely noticed the whimper when the Cold War ended. There was not even any agreement on the date of the war's end. Still, the people of the United States sensed its eagle had completed a great adventure and was returning to its nest, and that's where they wanted it.President George Bush was more sensitive to the shift in the balance of power in the Persian Gulf than to…
The U.S. and the Caribbean
The Spanish-American War heralded the beginning of America's global role and its preoccupation with the Caribbean area. There are a host of theories to explain U.S. involvement in the Caribbean, but over time, the whirlpool pattern of intense involvement followed by disinterest suggests that security considerations have remained paramount. U.S. policy in the twentieth century can be divided into three periods: the protectorate era (1898-1933); th…
Securing a Democratic Hemisphere
U.S. Immigration Policy and Latin America
The most prevalent criticism of U.S. policy toward Latin America is that it takes Latin America for granted or that Latin America would be better off if it did. According to this view, Latin America is either neglected or treated shabbily. The florid rhetoric that U.S. policymakers sometimes use to describe the “special relationship” with Latin America raises expectations that are never fulfilled. Abraham Lowenthal has repeatedly described this p…
Exiting the Labyrinth
In November 1992, a group of Mexican leaders representing a wide political spectrum was invited by the Carter Center and the state of Georgia to observe the U.S. presidential elections. The Center's ulterior purpose, which was not unknown to the Mexicans, was to elicit a reciprocal invitation to observe Mexico's 1994 presidential elections
Collective Responses to Regional Problems
Moderating Ethnic Tensions by Electoral Mediation
The Platonic Acorn
This article presents both a history and an administrative analysis of the United Nations Volunteers, an international organization established by a General Assembly resolution in December 1970. The hope that the new organization would presage a new era of multinational volunteerism has proven groundless. In seeking to explain the ineffectiveness of the UN Volunteers, I look inside the organization and find that it has little or no control over i…
Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1929-1976
The Target and the Source
U.S. Immigration Policy and Latin America
The most prevalent criticism of U.S. policy toward Latin America is that it takes Latin America for granted or that Latin America would be better off if it did. According to this view, Latin America is either neglected or treated shabbily. The florid rhetoric that U.S. policymakers sometimes use to describe the “special relationship” with Latin America raises expectations that are never fulfilled. Abraham Lowenthal has repeatedly described this p…
Explaining U.S. Policy toward the Caribbean Basin
To understand the complex developments in the Caribbean Basin and the U.S. response to them, one needs an image, an interpretive framework. A review of the current literature suggests two clear and coherent images: the security thesis, best articulated by the Reagan administration, views the crisis in the region as orchestrated by the Soviet Union, and the U.S. as playing a beneficial role historically and currently; and the neodependency antithe…
Does the United States Push Revolutions to Cuba? The Case of Grenada
One of the most difficult and frustrating challenges to US foreign policy in the post-World War II period has been coping with third world revolutions, particularly those in the Caribbean Basin. Whether the revolution has been in Cuba, Nicaragua, or Grenada, relations with the US have always deteriorated, and the revolutionary governments have moved closer to the Soviet bloc and toward a Communist political model. Both the deteriorating relations…
Condemned to Repetition
Condemned to Repetition
Journal Article Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua. By Robert A. Pastor. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xvi + 392 pp. $24.95.) Get access William Kamman William Kamman University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 680–681, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887999 Published: 01 September 1988
Securing a Democratic Hemisphere
Development and External Debt in Latin America
Condemned to Repetition
The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988
Migration and development
Limits to Friendship
Limits to Friendship
Democracy in the Americas
Nicaragua's Choice
Nicaragua's ChoiceThe Making of a Free Election Robert A. Pastor (bio) In the early morning hours of 26 February 1990, the first tentative signs of a new spirit of conciliation and comity emerged in Nicaragua. Prior to that moment, suspicion had dominated the country's political history. The government and its opposition each believed the worst about the other and repeatedly acted in ways that helped to confirm those beliefs and justify mutual di…
Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Americans have been so transfixed by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and subsequently riveted to the Persian Gulf crisis - that they have failed to notice the crumbling of the walls that have segmented Mexico and separated it from the United States. Yet Mexico's opening may be more significant for the United States because of its potential for infusing both economies and reshaping the two societies. Challenging a long tradition of state control and…
Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy
Preempting Revolutions
Pollwatching and Peacemaking
Pollwatching and Peacemaking Jennifer McCoy (bio), Larry Garber (bio), and Robert Pastor (bio) Even before the Gulf War rekindled hopes that the United Nations could enforce the elusive principle of collective security, sovereign states had begun to request another form of security assistance from the international community-help in resolving internal conflicts and guaranteeing processes of democratization. International organizations like the UN…
The Bush Administration and Latin America
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 Lati…
The Latin American Option
Whirlpool
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
The United States and Central America
Democracy in the Caribbean
For review see: David Scott Palmer, in The Hispanic American historical review (HAHR), 75, 1 (February 1995); p. 134-135
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