The 1906 Intervention in Cuba

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.

Implementasi Kebijakan Tetangga Baik (Good Neighbor Policy) China Pada Masa Presiden Hu Jintao di Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS)

This research was conducted to understand the implementation of models and factors that influence China's Good Neighbor Policy decision making during the reign of Hu Jintao in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. By using an Adaptive decision-making model, this paper tries to describe the internal and external factors that influenced President Hu Jintao to choose a model of revitalization of cooperation and infrastructure development as well as economic corridors as a manifestation of the implementation of the Good Neighbors policy in GMS. This study used a qualitative approach and used secondary data as the source of the analyzed data. Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk memahami model implementasi dan faktor yang mempengaruhi pengambilan keputusan pelaksanaan kebijakan Tetangga baik (Good Neighbour Policy) China Pada Masa pemerintahan Hu Jintao di Greater Mekong Sub Region. Dengan menggunakan model pemgambilan keputusan Adaptif, tulisan ini mencoba mendeskripsikan faktor internal dan ekternal yang mempengaruhi Presiden Hu Jintao memilih model revitalisasi kerjasama dan pembangunan infrastruktur serta koridor ekonomi sebagai wujud implementasi kebijakan Tetangga yang Baik di GMS. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan menggunakan data sekunder sebagai sumber data yang dianalisis.

Money Doctor in Latin America

Robert Triffin started working at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1942. He worked mainly on Latin America and participated in several missions on monetary and banking reforms. They were part of the Roosevelt administration’s Good Neighbor Policy and imbued by New Deal values. Triffin was an open and multicultural person, with both his Belgian and American background. Moreover, as a progressive Catholic with a strong grounding in economics, he was the ideal person for this new type of monetary reform mission. Triffin emphasized that the aim was to put monetary and banking policy at the service of development objectives previously ignored in central bank legislations. This also reflected a change in economic paradigms, from classical economics to Keynesian economics. During this period Triffin wrote a first important essay on the international monetary system, putting global liquidity at the core of the international monetary system.

Constructing an Internationalist Framework, 1933–1936

Upon taking office, Roosevelt was unwilling to risk raising controversial foreign policy issues while implementing the New Deal. He supported the Stimson Doctrine of non-recognition of Japan's conquest of Manchuria, expanding trade to promote recovery, and implementing the Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America. While the Good Neighbor Policy was designed to bring an end to American intervention in Latin America, Roosevelt cast the policy in global terms. He saw the Good Neighbor as a means to make concrete his internationalist vision for American foreign policy that could be applied elsewhere in the world.

“Good Neighbor,” The Nazi Threat, and Cold War “Armageddon”

What was America’s Good Neighbor policy? Washington’s closer ties to Bogotá were part of a broader U.S. effort throughout Latin America to be a “good neighbor,” something President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had promised in his inaugural speech in March 1933.1 FDR’s “radical...

Diplomatic Solutions

This chapter demonstrates how Henry Kissinger engaged in resolving inter-American trade, investment, and treaty disputes. When they recalled the history of inter-American relations between 1969 and 1976, State Department officials who worked in Washington and foreign service officers assigned to posts in Latin America habitually lamented that Henry Kissinger did not prioritize relations with Latin America. They further noted that he launched no grand initiatives for the region, such as the Good Neighbor Policy or the Alliance for Progress. Their assessments were accurate. Nonetheless, the energetic Kissinger devoted more of his time to Latin America than did the prominent Cold War leaders that he succeeded. When he left public service in January of 1977, Kissinger could point to solid achievements in inter-American affairs. He took the lead in resolving both old and new issues that marred relations with Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Hollywood and Disney in Mid-20th-Century Inter-American Relations

Hollywood, and Disney in particular, played a key role in inter-American relations during the mid-20th century. Hollywood cinema became an important weapon of cultural diplomacy in the context of the Good Neighbor Policy and later during World War II, and it aligned itself with the main diplomatic guidelines issued by Washington. Cinema was widely disseminated throughout Latin America, which helped to consolidate the US message in the region. Thus the close ties between the Hollywood film industry and the State Department is made clear, which became particularly close with regard to Latin America thanks to the creation of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs during the conflict. In this context, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs played a key role in creating a two-way street between Latin American culture and US audiences, as well as presenting the United States as an ally to trust.