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Research in Latin America and the Caribbean on International Relations and Foreign Policy: Some Impressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Abraham F. Lowenthal
Abraham F. Lowenthal*
Affiliation:
Woodrow Wilson Center
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This note reports on research in Latin America and the Caribbean concerning international relations and foreign policy. It lists persons in the region who are working on these subjects, comments on changing priorities in research by Latin Americans, broadly evaluates the quality of their research, considers the institutional loci and contexts for Latin American work in this field, and discusses the relevance of work in Latin America and the Caribbean to scholars in the United States and other Northern countries, and to those in developing countries beyond Latin America. The report draws on a considerable number of books, journal articles, and unpublished memoranda made available by colleagues, on correspondence with a number of Latin American social scientists, and on several interviews. These notes are surely not complete, and inadvertent inaccuracies may be included, but this version is presented with the hope that it will be helpful to others in its present form and that it may stimulate the submission to LARR of additional pertinent material.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1983 , pp. 154 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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The first draft of this essay was prepared at the request of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has given permission for its publication in LARR. I was greatly assisted in its preparation by Richard Sholk, of the University of California at Berkeley, and by access to an earlier draft inventory prepared by the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

References

Notes

1. Those interviewed included Wolf Grabendorff of the Foundation for Science and Politics Research Institute for International Politics and Security in Munich, Catherine Gwin of the Carnegie Endowment, Carlos Moneta of Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA) in Caracas, Luis M. Premoli of the Centro de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales y de Estrategia Internacional (CERIEN) in Buenos Aires, and Rubén Perina of the Organization of American States.

2. See the special issue of International Organization 32, 1(Winter 1978) for a balanced, critical discussion of the contributions of dependentistas to the theory of international relations. For an interesting argument that U. S. consumers of dependency writings tend to miss its points and ignore its subtleties, see Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “The Consumption of Dependency Theory in the United States,” LARR 12, no. 3 (1977): 7–24.

3. LARR 14, no. 2 (1979): 89–111.

4. For more detailed discussion of these trends, see Carlos Díaz-Alejandro, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, and Ernesto Tironi, Orden económico internacional y desarrollo: investigaciones prioritarias desde una perspectiva latinoamericana (Santiago, Chile: CIEPLAN, 1978).

5. Heraldo Muñoz, “Social Science in Chile: The Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile,” LARR 15, no. 3 (1980): 186–89.

6. See, for example, the following collections: Francisco Orrego Vicuña, ed., Los estudios internacionales en América Latina: realizaciones y desafios (Santiago, Chile: Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, 1980). Also, Luciano Tomassini, ed., Relaciones internacionales de la América Latina (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1981).