Pan-american Dream
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comparative political culture
cross-cultural governance
cultural determinants of economic growth
De La Madrid
democratic institutional development
economic modernization theory
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Free Market Economic Policies
Gdp Growth
hemispheric integration studies
Ibero-Catholic values
International Monetary Fund
LAFTA
Latin America's Development
Latin America's Problems
Latin America's Underdevelopment
Latin American Intellectuals
Mariano Grondona
Mexican Crisis
Miami Summit
Open Economic Policies
Pan-American Dream
Poder Ciudadano
Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy
Salinas De Gortari
Samuel Zemurray
Spanish Language
Tequila Effect
United Fruit
United Fruit Company
United States
Western Hemisphere Idea
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- ISBN 9780813334707
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The initiative of Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton to forge a Western Hemisphere community has been staggered by Mexico's economic and political crisis. Is this latest grand design for the hemisphere destined to follow John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress and Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy into the cemetery of frustrated Pan-American dreams? The United States and Canada are prosperous first-world countries with centuries-old democratic institutions; Latin America's countries are poor and, in most cases, experimenting with democratic capitalism for the first time. Can a coherent, durable community like the European Union be constructed with building blocks so different?Why are the United States and Canada so much more prosperous, so much more democratic than is Latin America? Why has it taken so long for Latin America to conclude that democratic capitalism and good relations with the United States are in its best interest? And what might be done to enhance the prospects for a dynamic community in the Western Hemisphere?These are the questions Lawrence Harrison addresses in The Pan-American Dream. Central to the contrasts between Latin America and the United States and Canada are the fundamental differences between the Ibero-Catholic and Anglo-Protestant cultures, reflected in contrasting views of work, education, merit, community, ethics, and authority, among others. But, as he stresses, cultural values and attitudes change, and Pan-Americanism can be more than a dream.A Pan-American community depends on shared values and institutions, as the community now embracing the United States and Canada demonstrates. Experiments with democracy and the free market in Latin America will help strengthen the values that lie behind the success of the United States and Canada, Western Europe, and East Asia. But if Latin America's political and intellectual leaders do not confront the traditional values and attitudes largely responsible for the region's underdevelopment?with sweeping reforms in education and child-rearing practices, for example?realization of the Pan-American dream will be painfully slow and uncertain.
Lawrence E. Harrison directed USAID missions in five Latin American countries between 1965 and 1981. He is the author of Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case, and was the U.S. member on the Haiti crisis mission of the Organization of American States in 1991 and 1992.
