Utopia Unarmed:; the Latin American left after the Cold War

New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Few spots and light soling to rear of DJ protected in archival brodart, DJ spine faintly sunned, extremely gently bumped corners, barely frayed spine head & foot, else fine in very good+ to near fine(-) DJ.. Octavo in white DJ; vi, 498 p; 24 cm. Signed by author. Democracy; Politics -- Latin America -- History. Contents: Travels with Argentina: Defining the Latin American Left -- In the Beginning: Communists and Populists -- The Cuban Crucible -- The Second Coming-- Squaring the Circle: Reforming Revolution -- Changing of the Guard: From Intellectuals to the Grass Roots -- The Grass Roots Explosion -- La Guerre Est Finie: The Latin American Left and the Fall of Socialism -- Nation-building and the Origins of the Left's Nationalism -- Reformulating Nationalism: Longitudinally and Regionally -- The Democratic Imperative -- Democratizing Democracy -- A Latin American Dilemma -- A Grand Bargain for the Millennium. Soviet communism had collapsed leaving the Latin American who faces challenges that will inevitably affect the United States' involvement in the region. Jorge Castanenda (Mexican political scientist) shows why hostility and misunderstanding between the left and the United States have lasted since the 1920s, and why we have never fully understood or adequately dealt with the vast region to the south. In the past, Soviet Communist parties throughout the hemisphere have blamed every evil on the United States. But not once, claims Castaneda, has the Latin left proved capable of solving its dilemma of how to carry out revolution or lasting reforms without provoking the wrath of Washington. Castaneda examines the strengths and weaknesses of Fidel Castro, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the Peronists, Lula and the PT in Brazil, the Sandinistas, the Shining Path, and other representatives of the left. Rich in revealing anecdotes and portraits, Utopia Unarmed describes the clashing interests, distrust, and insensitivity that have mailed the conflict between the two continents, and that in their repetitive nature would seem comical were it not for their tragic outcomes. Finally, the book outlines the dramatic changes that are taking place today in Latin America which are likely to produce a modern, mature, and truly imaginative relationship with the United States that has been absent in the past.