Chapter 16: FURTHER READING

 The dawn of the twenty-first century ushered in a spate of prognostications by experts. Among them were Victor Bulmer-Thomas and James Dunkerley (eds.), The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Albert Fishlow and James Jones (eds.), The United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First Century View (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000); and Jorge I. Dominguez (ed.), The Future of Inter-American Relations (New York: Routledge, 2000). Unfortunately, the attacks and aftermath of September 11, 2001 rendered these outlooks largely obsolete.

The impacts of 9/11 and of the U.S. war on terror are described in chilling detail in three volumes on “Bush at war” by award-winning Washington Post correspondent Bob Woodward: Bush at War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002); Plan of Attack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004); and State of Denial (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006).  Woodward followed up this trilogy with Obama’s Wars (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010).  An informative explanation of neoconservative foreign policies appears in Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).  Important documents for first-hand analysis are the White House, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002 and subsequent years). Also useful is the compilation in Brian Loveman (ed.), Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post–Cold War Era (Lanham, MD: SR Books, 2004).

International assessments of 9/11 and of the United States appear in Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore (eds.), Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from around the World (New York: New Press, 2002); Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes, America against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (New York: Times Books, 2006); and Julia E. Sweig, Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2006).  Systematic analysis impact of the anti-terror war on inter-American relations appears in Peter H. Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World, 4^th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), Part III.

Very few studies of Latin America’s foreign policies since 9/11 have appeared in English. Exceptions include Frank O. Mora and Jeanne A. K. Hey, Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz (eds.), Latin America in a Changing Global Environment (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003); Peter H. Smith, Kotaro Horisaka, and Shoji Nishijima (eds.), East Asia and Latin America: The Unlikely Alliance (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph Espach (eds.), Latin America in the New International System (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001); and Ana Margheritis, Argentina’s Foreign Policy: Domestic Politics and Democracy Promotion in the Americas (Boulder: FirstForum Press, 2010).

Intermestic issues in the hemispheric arena have gained increasing attention.  Migration and U.S. immigration policy are carefully studied in Frank D. Bean, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Bryan R. Roberts, and Sidney Weintraub (eds.), At the Crossroads: Mexico and U.S. Immigration Policy (Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997); Barry P. Bosworth, Susan M. Collins, and Nora Lustig (eds.), Coming Together? Mexico–U.S. Relations (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997); Wayne A. Cornelius, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield (eds.), Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, 2nd ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004); and Jorge Durand, Nolan J. Malone, and Douglas Massey, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (New York: Sage Publications, 2002).

Peter Andreas explores the symbolic and political dimensions of American policy making in Border Games: Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).  Cross-border crime is the subject of John Bailey and Roy Godson (eds.), Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000). A broader regional approach is adopted in Tom Farer (ed.), Transnational Crime in the Americas (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Drugs and drug trafficking have produced a recent spate of publications, most of them sharply critical of U.S. policy. In chronological order, they include Peter H. Smith (ed.), Drug Policy in the Americas (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992); Bruce M. Bagley and William O. Walker III (eds.), Drug Trafficking in the Americas (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1994); William O. Walker III, Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1996); Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, and Peter Andreas, Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996); Menno Vellinga (ed.), The Political Economy of the Drug Industry: Latin America and the International System (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004); Collette A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin (eds.), Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2005); and Paul Gootenberg, Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008). The unique plight of Colombia has received special attention in Russell Crandall, Driven by Drugs: U.S. Policy toward Colombia (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002), and Robin Kirk, More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia (New York: Public Affairs, 2003).  A broad critique of current U.S. policy appears in Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift (2009).

Finally, a major collaborative project has produced a multivolume series on bilateral relationships between the United States and individual countries of Latin America. The leadoff volume is Rafael Domínguez and Jorge I. Fernández de Castro, The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict (New York: Routledge, 2001), now in a second edition (2009), which can be complemented by Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee (eds.), Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership (Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013) and by the revealing memoirs of an outspoken American ambassador, Jeffrey Davidow, The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2004). Other studies in the Routledge series are David R. Mares and Francisco Rojas, The United States and Chile: Coming in Out of the Cold (New York: Routledge, 2001); Janet Kelly and Carlos A. Romero, The United States and Venezuela: Rethinking a Relationship (New York: Routledge, 2001); Deborah L. Norden and Roberto Russell, The United States and Argentina: Changing Relations in a Changing World (New York: Routledge, 2002); Cynthia McClintock and Fabian Vallas, The United States and Peru: Cooperation at a Cost (New York: Routledge, 2003); Anthony P. Maingot and Wilfredo Lozano, The United States and the Caribbean: Transforming Hegemony and Sovereignty (New York: Routledge, 2004); Monica Hirst, The United States and Brazil: A Long Road of Unmet Expectations (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Mark Rosenberg, The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility (New York: Routledge, 2007).  A capstone volume for the series is Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro, Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflicts In the 21st Century? (New York: Routledge, 2010).