The Imperial Era

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The Imperial Era

• Reading
• Smith, Talons, chs. 2-4
• Holden and Zolov, Latin America
• 2, 7, 13, 22 (on U.S. imperialism)
• 10, 21, 28, 35, 47 (on Latin American
  reactions)

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Office Hours
Peter Smith phsmith_at_weber.ucsd.edu Tuesday
2-4 p.m. SSB 364 and by appointment Lindsay
Lavelle llavelle_at_weber.ucsd.edu Monday
1030-1200 SSB 324 and by appointment Heather
Smith hmsmith_at_weber.ucsd.edu Tuesday
445-600 p.m. Sequoyah 124 and by
appointment Lydia Tiede ltiede_at_socisci.ucsd.edu
Wednesday 730-830 p.m. SSB 322 and by
appointment
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About the Optional Paper

• Topic Any subject related to U.S.-Latin
  American relations (whether or not covered in
  class)proposed by student and approved by TA
• 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), reactions to 9/11, Bush relationship
  with Fox, evaluations of NAFTA or FTAA
• Length 10-12 double-spaced pages (plus notes or
  bibliography)
• Due Tuesday, March 2

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• THE DIALECTICS OF
• IMPERIALISM
• IN THE AMERICAS

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PART I. THE UNITED STATES AS AN IMPERIAL POWER

• Global Context Great Powers and Grand Strategies
• 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
• 1. Driving Europe out
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• No-transfer principle (1869)
• Panama and World War I
• 2. 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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PART II. REACTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA

• Defining the Challenge
• Establishing sovereignty
• Articulating national interests
• In the wake of colonial rule (and war)
• Confronting the United States

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• Strategic Options for Latin America
• Collective unity (the Bolivarian dream)
• Extra-hemispheric protection
• Subregional hegemony
• International law
• Cultures of resistance
• Alignment with the United States

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• Outcomes and Implications
• Illusions of success
• Growth of nationalist anti-imperialism
• Continuing quest for sovereignty
• Tensions in U.S.-Latin American relations

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• The Gringo in Mañanaland
• The hero discovers paradise
• The hero has a dream about bananas
• The hero has a problem with women
• And with bandits
• The hero calls in the Marines (who save the
  day)
• The bandits cooperate (from prison)
• The Good Neighbors are happy