The Obama doctrine in the Americas

This 14-chapter edited volume consists of a dozen case-studies of US policy towards individual countries in the Americas, book-ended by a brief introduction and an opening chapter on policy challenges throughout the hemisphere, and a concluding chapter by the editors on variations on US policy approaches across subregions of the Americas. Readers interested in understanding the Obama administration's interactions with specific countries, particularly on security matters, will benefit from the largely descriptive, but sometimes insightful, accounts provided by the contributors, many of whom are respected country specialists. But we can already draw on studies that surpass this volume in both breadth and analytic depth. For example, more useful sets of case-studies are available in Shifting the balance, edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone and Laurence Whitehead and published by the Brookings Institution in 2011, and in the second edition of a collection edited by Jorge I. Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, entitled Contemporary U.S.–Latin American relations (Routledge, 2016). Neither of those books is flawless, but both are intelligent and well written

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• The Normalization of U.S. Policy Toward Cuba? Rapprochement and Regional Hegemony

  Open Access•Rubrick Biegon•Latin American Politics and Society•2020

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• Soft Power, Leverage, and the Obama Doctrine in Cuba

  Open Access•Gregory Weeks•The Latin Americanist•2016

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