In this edited volume fourteen scholars, mostly from Latin America, analyze the current state of relations between North America and Latin America in a number of sectors - economic, security, politics, and the environment. Particular attention is paid to processes of economic integration that dominated political discussions during the decade of the 1990s - NAFTA, MERCOSUR, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Because most of the scholars are from Latin America, the book has a perspective that is often lacking in books on similar scholars written almost exclusively by scholars from the U.S.

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GARY PREVOST is Professor of Political Science at St. John's University in Minneapolis, MN. He is author of The Undermining of the Sandenista Revolution (Macmillan 1997). CARLOS OLIVA is director of the Association for Our Havana in Havana, Cuba.

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PART I: HEMESPHERIC ISSUES The United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Between Hegemonic Panamericanism and Independent Integration; C.Oliva The Debate on National Interest in the United States and the Perception of Latin America; L.F.Ayerbe Security, Integration, and Governability in the Americas; C.Alzugaray The Demise of the Free Americas?; G.Prevost & R.Weber Controversies in the International Harmonization of Environmental Regulation; L.Togeiro PART II: REGIONAL ISSUES Caribbean Community at the Crossroads; A.Lopez The New Hegemony in Central America: The Effects of Neoliberalism in Nicaragua and other States; H.Vanden Globalization and Regional Integration in Latin America; D.Melcher Argentine Foreign Policy in the 90s: The Relationship with the U.S. and MERCOSUR; S.Colombo Security Issues in the Andean Region; E A.Zevllos Mexico and the United States: The New Relationship; J.P.Coronado The Role of the Scientific - Technological Cooperation in the Projects of Regional Integration in Latin America; J.M.Araya Democracy and Political Actors in MERCOSUL; T.Vigenvani, K.P.Mariano & M.Fernandez