Lars Schoultz
Biographic Data
| ID | 505192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Schoultz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoultz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOULTZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
In Their Own Best Interest
For over a century the U.S. has "improved" the peoples of Latin America by promoting everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. How did this paternalistic practice evolve and spread globally and what are the troubling consequences for a country with a habit of giving-and for others with a habit of receiving?
In Their Own Best Interest
In Their Own Best Interest
Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
Latin America
This chapter examines the role of Latin America in the Cold War. It explains that Latin America did not play a significant independent role in the Cold War and largely served as a symbol whereby communist adversaries could attempt to tilt the bipolar balance of power. It discusses how Latin America's military became the U.S. government's vehicle for meeting the communist challenge and highlights America's fear that Moscow-directed local communist…
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
This book chronicles U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using an array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, it tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. The book concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power which the United States enjoys over its neighbor, the Cubans' historical insistence on their right to self-determination h…
Washington's Fourth Interest
Secret Missions to Cuba
In mid-1978 National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski sent his principal deputy, David Aaron, to meet in New York with one of Castro’s closest aides, José Luis Padrón, who wanted to know if the United States would be willing to admit several thousand political prisoners should the Cuban government decide to release them. At the time of his confirmation hearing, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had suggested that a prisoner release would be “one…
Blessings of Liberty
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Secret History
Journal Article Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. By Nick Cullather. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xl, 142 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-3310-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8047-3311-2.) Get access Lars Schoultz Lars Schoultz University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
The Most Dangerous Area in the World
Those of us who teach U.S. foreign policy for a living know what went wrong with the Kennedy administration’s policy toward Latin America: its reformist instincts were overwhelmed by a cold war fixation on containing the spread of communism. But today’s students are as distant from John Kennedy’s era as senior professors are from that of Warren Harding, and they often want something more substantial than our simple explanation. We can point these…
Beneath the United States
Presidential Decision Making Adrift
Security, Democracy, and Development in U.S.-Latin American Relations
Crisis y democracia en América Latina
U.S. Security Interests in Latin America
National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America
Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua
National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America
The Populist Challenge
Politics, economics, and U.S. participation in multilateral development banks
In the 1970s the U.S. executive branch was forced to make a significant change in the procedure it uses to influence decisions by the multilateral development banks. This procedural change—from exclusive reliance on behind-the-scenes pressure to open voting in bank councils—reflects two more fundamental alterations: the relative diminution of U.S. power in bank councils and, especially, the development of increased congressional interest in formu…
Latin America, The United States, and the Inter-American System
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
U. S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights Violations in Latin America
Beneath the United States
The Populist Challenge
Urbanization and Changing Voting Patterns
For centuries man has recognized the utility of urbanization as a causal variable explaining individual political behavior. Recent research, however, has yielded contradictory results. While Huntington and others assert that urbanization involves the creation of both stabilizing and destabilizing political influences, Inkeles and Nie et al. find little evidence that urbanization exerts any significant independent influence upon man's political be…
Latin America, the United States, and the Inter-American System
Political Normlessness in Comparative Perspective
Reform and Reaction in the Colombian Catholic Church
In the autumn of 1509 the explorer Alonso de Ojeda landed on the northern coast of South America, near where is today the city of Cartagena, and claimed the region in the name of Spain. As some of the natives appeared inclined to question the acquisitive proclivities of the Crown, Ojeda had read to them the principal articles of the Christian faith, hoping to demonstrate the benign nature of his invasion. Apparently feeling that his obligation to…
Urbanization and Changing Voting Patterns
For centuries man has recognized the utility of urbanization as a causal variable explaining individual political behavior. Recent research, however, has yielded contradictory results. While Huntington and others assert that urbanization involves the creation of both stabilizing and destabilizing political influences, Inkeles and Nie et al. find little evidence that urbanization exerts any significant independent influence upon man's political be…
Reform and Reaction in the Colombian Catholic Church
In the autumn of 1509 the explorer Alonso de Ojeda landed on the northern coast of South America, near where is today the city of Cartagena, and claimed the region in the name of Spain. As some of the natives appeared inclined to question the acquisitive proclivities of the Crown, Ojeda had read to them the principal articles of the Christian faith, hoping to demonstrate the benign nature of his invasion. Apparently feeling that his obligation to…
Analyzing the Argentine Political System
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The Socio-Economic Determinants of Popular-Authoritarian Electoral Behavior
In several highly mobilized Third World societies, rising levels of working-class political activism seem to have encouraged the development of political movements which are both popular and authoritarian. This popular authoritarianism melds intensive political mobilization of previously excluded social sectors with political structures which severely limit these groups' ability to affect public policy. Much of the research on popular authoritari…
Political Normlessness in Comparative Perspective
Presidential Power in Latin American Politics
The Nature of Anti-U. S. Sentiment in Latin America
Latin America, the United States, and the Inter-American System
U. S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights Violations in Latin America
Politics, economics, and U.S. participation in multilateral development banks
In the 1970s the U.S. executive branch was forced to make a significant change in the procedure it uses to influence decisions by the multilateral development banks. This procedural change—from exclusive reliance on behind-the-scenes pressure to open voting in bank councils—reflects two more fundamental alterations: the relative diminution of U.S. power in bank councils and, especially, the development of increased congressional interest in formu…
Latin America, The United States, and the Inter-American System
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America
The Populist Challenge
Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua
National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America
U.S. Security Interests in Latin America
National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America
Crisis y democracia en América Latina
Security, Democracy, and Development in U.S.-Latin American Relations
Beneath the United States
Presidential Decision Making Adrift
Secret History
Journal Article Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. By Nick Cullather. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xl, 142 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-3310-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8047-3311-2.) Get access Lars Schoultz Lars Schoultz University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
The Most Dangerous Area in the World
Those of us who teach U.S. foreign policy for a living know what went wrong with the Kennedy administration’s policy toward Latin America: its reformist instincts were overwhelmed by a cold war fixation on containing the spread of communism. But today’s students are as distant from John Kennedy’s era as senior professors are from that of Warren Harding, and they often want something more substantial than our simple explanation. We can point these…
Political science (29 works) · Law (25 works) · Latin Americans (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · International Relations in Latin America (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)