Mexico''s Cold War - Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution

This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The institutionalized revolution; 2. Responding to the Cuban Revolution; 3. Mexico's Cold War heats up; 4. Negotiating relations with Cuba and the United States; 5. Insurgent Mexico; 6. From Cold War to Dirty War; Conclusion.

About the author

Renata Keller is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Summary

This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. It uses declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure.

Product details

• Authors: Renata Keller, Renata (Boston University) Keller, Keller Renata
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107079588
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07958-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, Mexico, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Cuba, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)