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DIMENSIONS OF HISTORY. CONFRONTING THE UNITED STATES. READINGS. Modern Latin America , chs. 3, 5 [Mexico, Cuba] MLA Website, Chapter 15, Primary Documents Nos. 37, 39 [Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary] http://library.brown.edu/modernlatinamerica
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DIMENSIONS OF HISTORY CONFRONTING THE UNITED STATES
READINGS • Modern Latin America, chs. 3, 5 [Mexico, Cuba] • MLA Website, Chapter 15, Primary Documents Nos. 37, 39 [Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary] • http://library.brown.edu/modernlatinamerica • NB: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~phsmith “Teaching”
U.S. IMPERIAL POWER • Conquest and incorporation • Formal colonization • Informal “spheres of influence”
STRATEGIES FOR POWER • Mexico • Conquest and incorporation • Military intervention • Political and economic pressure • Central America and Caribbean • Colonization (Puerto Rico, Panama?) • Dollar diplomacy and “sphere of influence” • Military intervention (Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti) • Cuba • Military intervention, occupation (1898-1902) • Quasi-colony (Platt Amendment, 1902-33) • Sphere of influence (1934-59) • Attempts at overthrow (1959- )
STRATEGIES FOR POWER • Mexico • Conquest and incorporation • Military intervention • Political and economic pressure • Central America and Caribbean • Colonization (Puerto Rico, Panama?) • Dollar diplomacy and “sphere of influence” • Military intervention (Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti) • Cuba • Military intervention, occupation (1898-1902) • Quasi-colony (Platt Amendment, 1902-33) • Sphere of influence (1934-59) • Attempts at overthrow (1959- )
U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, 1898-1933 • Costa Rica 1921 • Cuba 1898-1902, 1906-1909, 1912, 1917-1922 • Dominican Rep 1903, 1904, 1914, 1916-1924 • Haiti 1915-1934 • Honduras 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924, 1925 • Mexico 1913, 1914, 1916-1917, 1918-1919 • Nicaragua 1898, 1899, 1909-1910, 1912-1925, 1926-1933 • Panama 1903-1914, 1921, 1925
Defining the Challenge • Establishing sovereignty • Articulating national interests • In the wake of colonial rule (and war) • Negotiating international arena • Confronting the United States
STRATEGIC OPTIONS • Collective unity (“the Bolivarian dream”) • Extra-hemispheric protection • Regional hegemony • International law • Cultures of resistance • Alignment with the United States
OPTIONS IN ACTION: MEXICO • Collective unity (as leader of Latin America) • Regional hegemony (in Central America) • International law (re sovereignty) • Cultures of resistance • Alignment with United States (NAFTA)
CENTRAL AMERICA + CARIBBEAN • Central America • Collective unity (unification) • Cultures of resistance • Alignment with USA • Caribbean • Extra-hemispheric protection (Europe) • Cultures of resistance • Alignment with USA
CUBA • Cultures of resistance + revolution • Extra-hemispheric protection • Collective unity (?)
Outcomes and Implications • Short-term success and experimentation • Growth of nationalist anti-imperialism • Continuing quest for sovereignty • Tensions in U.S.-Latin American relations