Your Americanism and Mine: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Americas

The Impact of the Mexican Revolution in Inter-American Politics: U.S.–Mexican Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy at the Fifth Pan-American Conference of 1923

“…The discourse of Pan-Americanism as an exceptional collaborative ideal that would leverage power asymmetry was attractive to individuals such as the Costa Rican Alvarado, but not everyone shared in his enthusiasm. 60 This was, in other words, not a defeat of U.S. foreign policy, but a referendum that in the long-term would prove useful.…”

Institutions, Ideologies, and Comparative Political Theory

“…For example, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, political thinkers in the United States defended their country's increasingly interventionist foreign policy in Central America and the Caribbean using a language and a set of concepts developed during the American independence movement, arguing that cross-continental expansion and the creation of overseas protectorates would help preserve the hemisphere's independence from Europe, strengthen its republican political institutions, and hasten its economic development (Hendrickson 2009;Lewis 1998;Sexton 2011;Simon 2014;2018). However, in the same period, several important Latin American political thinkers drew on the same intellectual tradition to argue, contrarily, that the growing power of the United States, left unchecked, presented an imminent threat to their nations' independence, an impediment to the consolidation of democratic and liberal institutions in the region, and a significant cause of economic underdevelopment (de la Reza 2009;Gobat 2013;Grandin 2006;Scarfi 2016). A comparison of these North and Latin American thinkers, who shared a common intellectual context, could demonstrate that the Americas' ideological divergence during this period was attributable to the distinctive institutional positions that U.S-American and Latin American political thinkers occupied.…”

Anti-Americanismo, Pro-Americanismo Y Sentido Común en América Latina

“…Los peruanos describen la relación bilateral en términos de sociedad, lo que no revela una posición negativa o positiva frente a Estados Unidos, pero sí expresa una relación intersubjetiva que está regulada por normas distintas a las que habría si Estados Unidos se FI LV-3 considerara un rival, una amenaza o un amigo, lo cual parece no ser algo exclusivo de la opinión pública. Según señala Ronald Bruce St. John, 41 en la política exterior peruana predomina una posición pragmática frente a Estados Unidos antes que cualquier cosa, especialmente desde el gobierno de Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006 hasta la administración de Alan García (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011).…”