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Through Glasses Darkly: An Assessment of Various Theoretical Approaches to Interamerican Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Yale H. Ferguson
Yale H. Ferguson*
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Department of Political Science, Hill Hall, 7th Floor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick as NJ 07102, Rutgers—New Brunswick
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In the past decade or so the international relations of Latin America—for many years the subject of legalistic, institutional, polemical, or purely descriptive analyses—has been investigated on a much more sophisticated basis. Dependencia has emerged as a major organizing concept in much of the literature, and “bureaucratic politics” has provided a focus for some of the work emanating from North American scholars on U.S. Latin American policies. There are a number of other frameworks as well. Welcome as the wealth of new studies is, they nevertheless present us for the first time with a problem of assessing the utility of various theoretical approaches or at least with the challenge of relating them to one another in a meaningful fashion.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 3 - 34
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Copyright © University of Miami 1977

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