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I received an email from a former colleague and friend of mine recently who concluded that Lula’s (Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva) two terms in office as President of Brazil (2003-2010) represented a missed opportunity for the United States–and United States-Latin American relations in general. Here was a center-left leader, in one of the world’s [...]
More than 20 years have passed since the last full-fledged U.S. military intervention in Latin America (Panama, 1989, in case your memories are hazy). Starting in the 1980s, democratization flowered in the region for numerous reasons—but mostly internal reasons based in Latin American history and society. Starting in the 1990s, with the end of the [...]
Patriotism is a domestic phenomenon and practice. It is that part of a larger national political culture that supports and legitimizes the exercise of foreign policy. Anatol Lieven’s America Right or Wrong, published early in the Iraq war, shows that an important function of state-sponsored patriotism is to structure the public discourse and shape public [...]