In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on h…
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In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on h…
Beauty and the Beast
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On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, then a popular political leader likely to become the next president of Colombia, was shot and killed by a drifter whose motivations remain obscure. Gaitán's death touched off a spontaneous riot, known as the Bogotazo, and left hundreds dea…
Solidarity and cooperation, 1939-1945 -- Old problems, new possibilities, 1945-1950 -- The Korean War and the Americas, 1950-1951 -- The fighting alliance, 1951-1953 -- Continuity and change, 1953-1957 -- The partnership transformed, 1958-1960 -- Essay on archival research.
Discusses the problems and transformations of U.S.-Columbian security relations throughout a number of years, ending with a modern Colombian-American partnership by 1960.
A valuable addition to the New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations SeriesWorld War II and the Cold War transformed U.S.-Colombian security relations. The republics first partnered to defend the Western Hemisphere during World War II, a wartime affiliation that promoted hemispheric…
