Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Thomas E. Weil
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1770

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Stephen J. Randall
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820314020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Strategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the United States' involvement with its Latin American neighbors. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of U.S.-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction. A leader in the movement for independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, Colombia shared with the United States the aspiration of becoming a leader for the entire hemisphere. Its early efforts in this direction--notably its initiation in the 1820s of the first Pan-American Conference--soon languished, however, as the unequal growth between the two countries took its toll. By the turn of the century, after years of destructive civil war, Colombia had slipped far behind its northern neighbor militarily, economically, and politically. The United States, meanwhile, had emerged as a great power, and the first major manifestation of the two countries' divergence came with the U.S.-supported secession of Panama in 1903--an event that deeply shocked Colombians and tainted their view of the United States for subsequent generations. During the twentieth century, Randall explains, a tension in Colombian politics and culture has persisted between those who advocate an independent, even antagonistic, stance toward the United States and those who propound a policy of realism that accepts Colombia's place as a middle, regional power within the U.S. orbit. For its part, the United States has continually failed to realize that Colombians, with their European intellectual heritage stretching back four hundred years, do not see themselves as an insignificant Third World nation. The result has been an often strained relationship, which Randall traces through two world wars, economic booms and depressions, the Cold War, and, finally, the present-day guerrilla conflicts and drug trade controversies. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, many previously unused, this book is the first comprehensive overview in more than fifty years of the U.S.-Colombian relationship.

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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Howard I. Blutstein
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Manual descriptivo de la República de Colombia.

Author: United States. Agency for International Development
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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Author: Ethan B. Kapstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316949273
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Under what conditions do the governments of developing countries manage to reform their way out of political and economic instability? When are they instead overwhelmed by the forces of social conflict? What role can great powers play in shaping one outcome or the other? This book is among the first to show in detail how the United States has used foreign economic policy, including foreign aid, as a tool for intervening in the developing world. Specifically, it traces how the United States promoted land reform as a vehicle for producing political stability. By showing where that policy proved stabilizing, and where it failed, a nuanced account is provided of how the local structure of the political economy plays a decisive role in shaping outcomes on the ground.

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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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