Table of Contents

Other Books by Robert A. Pastor , Preface to the Second Edition , Preface to the First Edition , The Lessons and Legacy of Omar Torrijos , Whirlpool , The Quest for the National Interest , The Carter Administration: A Test of Principle , The Reagan Administration: A Test of Strength , The Bush Administration: A Test of Pragmatism , The Clinton Administration: A Test of (Postwar) Politics , Interbranch Politics and the American Dialectic , Recurring Problems , Succession Crises: The Boundaries of Influence , Revolutionary Regimes: Who Pushed First? , Promoting Development: The Marshall Plan Reflex , Promoting Democracy: Pushing on the Pendulum , Exit , The Psychology of Inter-American Relations , The Redefinition of Sovereignty: The Nicaraguan Precedent and the Mexican Model , The Century of the Americas: A Community of Democracies

About the Author

Robert A. Pastor is the Vice President of International Affairs at American University. He has served as the Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and he is the former director of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, National Security Council. Dr. Pastor was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and from 1985-98, he was Fellow and Founding Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy project at the Carter centre.