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Title: IMPERIALISM IN THE AMERICAS


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IMPERIALISM IN THE AMERICAS
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About the Analytical Paper
  • Topic Any subject related to U.S.-Latin
    American relations (whether or not covered in
    class)proposed by student and approved by Kelly
    Matush
  • Examples Sports (e.g. baseball), film
    (depictions of Latina women),
  • music (lyrics, popularity of stars, etc.),
    advertising (Corona beer)
  • In-class examples Content of Latin American
    nationalism, impacts of drug war (e.g., Plan
    Colombia or Plan Mérida), reactions to 9/11,
    Obama relationship with Latin leaders, Hugo
    Chávez phenomenon, evaluations of NAFTA
  • Format 10-12 double-spaced pages (including
    notes or bibliography) 1-inch margins 12-pt.
    font include page numbers. You may choose a
    citation style.
  • Due Wednesday, March 5th (via Turnitin link on
    TED page and hard copy in class)
  • Prompt A paper prompt will be posted to the
    (forthcoming) TED page.

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The Imperial Era
  • Reading Smith, Talons, Introduction, chs. 1-4

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KEY QUESTIONS
  • What is the current state of U.S. relations with
    Latin America?
  • What (if anything) is unique or new about the
    present situation? How much have we seen before?
  • Where is the relationship headed? What might the
    future hold?

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BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
  • International system based on tacit codes of
    conduct or regimes
  • Regimes change according to distributions of
    powerpolitical, economic, otherwise
  • U.S. relations with Latin America thus take place
    within changing contexts (regimes)
  • Latin American policy is key part of dialectic
  • Latin America is more important to U.S. than is
    generally recognized

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THE UNITED STATES AS AN IMPERIAL POWER
  • Global Context Great Powers, Grand Strategies,
    and the Rules of the Game
  • The balance of power
  • Notions of sovereignty
  • Imperialism and the pursuit of power

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Imperialism and Its Variations
  • Conquest and incorporation (France)
  • Colonization (England, Holland, Spain)
  • Spheres of influence/ Spheres of interest
    (various)

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The U.S. Strategy
  • Driving Europe out
  • Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  • Preference for Spain
  • No-transfer principle (1811, 1869)
  • Panama and World War I
  • Creating Americas empire
  • Stage 1 Territorial conquest and incorporation
    (Mexico, Cuba?) Parenthesis Colonization (Puerto
    Rico, Philippines)
  • Stage 2 Dollar diplomacy and periodic
    intervention (Caribbean and Latin America as
    a whole)

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U.S. Military Interventions in the Caribbean Basin
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
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  • Ideology and Its Complications
  • The doctrine of manifest destiny
  • The problem of race
  • The historic compromise
  • Power and Its Costs The Rise of Anti-Imperialism
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