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