The Good Neighbor Policy and Authoritarianism in Paraguay: United States Economic Expansion and Great Power Rivalry in Latin America during World War II.

Between 1945 and 1947, Argentina posed a complex and exasperating problem for the United States as it endeavored to develop policy to guide its relations with Latin America. Among the questions involved were how to deal with an alleged neofascist dictator in Argentina, how to preserve the aura of the so-called Good Neighbor policy, whether to provide arms and economic aid to Latin America, and whether to enter into a collective security agreement for the western hemisphere.

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The 1906 Intervention in Cuba

10.1093/oso/9780190695859.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 61-81

Author(s):

Payam Ghalehdar

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Policy ◽

World War Ii ◽

The United States ◽

Western Hemisphere ◽

Cuban Revolution ◽

World War ◽

Good Neighbor Policy ◽

Good Neighbor ◽

The Cold War

This chapter serves as an introduction to the first three case studies of the book’s empirical analysis, which comprise Part I. It sketches the evolution of US attitudes toward states in the Western Hemisphere. It shows how US interpretations of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine became more hegemonic with the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary and how US expectations toward hemispheric states were relaxed in the interwar years, culminating in the Good Neighbor Policy. The chapter briefly illustrates how the attenuation of hegemonic expectations allowed Franklin D. Roosevelt to abstain from intervening in the 1933 Cuban Crisis. The aftermath of World War II put an end to the Good Neighbor Policy. Following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, John F. Kennedy expanded hegemonic expectations again, now to include domestic economic policy decisions of hemispheric states. The chapter concludes by showing that after the end of the Cold War, the United States has continued to harbor hegemonic expectations toward the Western Hemisphere.

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From “Color” to “Rainbow”: U.S. Strategic Planning for Latin America, 1919-1945

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/165527 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 233-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John Child

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Latin American ◽

Strategic Thinking ◽

World War ◽

Good Neighbor Policy ◽

Strategic Plans ◽

National Archives ◽

Bilateral Cooperation ◽

Good Neighbor ◽

The U.S

A series of recently declassified documents in the National Archives provide striking evidence of the shift of United States military strategic thinking away from the nineteenth and early twentieth century unilateral interventionist approaches to the bilateral approaches taken in World War II under the multilateral framework of the Good Neighbor Policy.It is also significant to note that, despite the multilateral thrust of this Good Neighbor Policy promulgated by President Roosevelt and the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Military Departments— War and Navy—made no provisions for multilateral strategic plans in World War II.But even as U.S. military planners prepared for bilateral cooperation with Latin American allies in the war, they continued to draft and update unilateral plans for intervention and invasion of key Latin American countries if cooperative approaches should fail.

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The Rate of Profit, Aggregate Demand, and the Long Economic Expansion in the United States since 2009

Review of Radical Political Economics ◽

10.1177/0486613419846967 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 525-535

Author(s):

David M. Kotz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Aggregate Demand ◽

The United States ◽

Jel Classification ◽

World War ◽

Economic Expansion ◽

Asset Bubbles ◽

Rate Of Profit

The current economic expansion in the United States, which began in the summer of 2009, has lasted for more than nine years as of this writing, making it the second longest expansion since the end of World War II. The previous two expansions, of the 1990s and 2000s, were prolonged by big asset bubbles, which have played a key role in the neoliberal era in promoting long economic expansions. However, the current expansion has not seen an asset bubble large enough to significantly affect the macroeconomy. This paper examines the expansion since 2009 by analyzing the movements of the rate of profit, and its determinants, and the role of aggregate demand, with the aim of determining the factors that have kept crisis tendencies at bay so far. JEL Classification: E32, E30, E11, E02

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