Between Compliance and Conflict

by Byung Kook Kim, Jorge Dominguez

This book examines the responses to U.S. power in the two areas of the world where U.S. primacy was first successfully consolidated: East Asia and Latin America. The U.S. has faced no comparably powerful challengers to the exercise of its power in Latin America for much of the past century. It established its primacy over much of East Asia in the aftermath of WW II and extended its influence in the late 1970's and after the end of the Vietnam War through its entente with China to balance the Sov

ISBN: 9781136769832

280 pages

Published: 2013-01-11

Publisher: Routledge

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