US Hegemony and the Americas: Power and Economic Statecraft in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780815381105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

Arturo Santa-Cruz

Opis

Arturo Santa-Cruz advances an understanding of power as a social relation and applies it consistently to the economic realm in the United States relationship with eight countries in four regions of the Americas: North America, Central America, Andean Region, Southern Cone.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Five Decades and Still Going: The Debate on the Decline of US Hegemony  2. Hierarchy and Authority in Regional Orders: The Western Hemisphere  3. On Power  4. Thick Economic Statecraft and the Political Economy of US Power  5. United States' Economic Statecraft toward Canada  6. United States' Economic Statecraft toward Mexico  7. United States' Economic Statecraft toward Central America  8. United States' Economic Statecraft toward South America  Conclusions

O autorze

Arturo Santa-Cruz (Ph D, Cornell University) is Professor at the Pacific Rim Department and Director of the North American Studies Center, at the University of Guadalajara, México. He is the author of Mexico-United States Relations: The Semantics of Sovereignty (2012) and International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere Idea: The Emergence of an International Norm (2005); he is co-author of América del Norte, Volume 1 in the series "Historia de las relaciones internacionales de México, 1821–2010" (2011). He is editor or co-editor of, among other works, Introducción a las Relaciones Internacionales: América Latina y la Política Global (2013), The State and Security in Mexico: Transformation and Crisis in Regional Perspective (2012), La Política Sin Fronteras, O la Ubicuidad de lo Distintivo (2012), and El Constructivismo y las Relaciones Internacionales (2009). He has contributed many book chapters, and has published in specialized journals such as International Organization, Journal of Latin American Studies, Estudios Internacionales and Foro Internacional.