Rivalry and alliance politics in cold war Latin America /
Darnton, Christopher Neil,1980-
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explaining rivalry and rapprochement in cold war Latin America -- Parochial interest and policy change -- Antagonism and anticommunism in Argentine-Brazilian relations -- Peron and Dutra, 1947 : damn the torpedoes -- Frondizi and Quadros, 1961 : the spirit of Uruguaiana -- Lanusse and Medici, 1972 : general to general -- Videla and Figueiredo, 1980 : the turning point -- The 1959 Cuban Revolution and Central American rivalries -- From borders to brotherhood : Nicaragua and Honduras -- Persistent conflicts : Costa Rica-Nicaragua and El Salvador-Honduras -- The 1980s debt crisis and Andean rivalries -- Persistent conflicts : Peru-Ecuador, Colombia-Venezuela, and Bolivia-Chile -- From crisis to cooperation : Argentina and Chile -- From the cold war to the global war on terrorism -- Algeria and Morocco : protracted rivalry in the Maghreb -- The organizational politics of conflict resolution.
Cold War