Contemporary US-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21 Century?

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Frank O. Mora

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Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, eds. Contemporary US-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21 Century?, 2^nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2016.

This work remains one of the more important volumes on bilateral relationships between the US and several key countries in the region. This new edition has chapters on the role of diasporas and the issue of crime on hemispheric and bilateral relations.

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