Includes index.

Introduction to Latin American foreign policy : global and regional dimensions /Jennie K. Lincoln -- The United States and Latin America : vital interests and the instruments of power / Alfred Stepan -- Determinants of Latin American foreign policies : bureaucratic organizations and development strategies / Kenneth M. Coleman & Luis Quiros-Varela -- "Will there always be a Uruguay?" Interdependence and independence in the inter-American system / William A. Hazleton -- Brazil in the world : multipolarity as seen by a peripheral ADC middle power / Wayne A. Selcher -- Mexico's foreign policy in an age of interdependence / Guy Poitras -- Peruvian foreign policy since 1975 : external political and economic initiatives / Stephen M. Gorman -- Cuba's involvement in Africa : an interpretation of objectives, reactions, and limitations / Wolfgang Grabendorff -- Venezuela, Brazil, and the Amazon Basin / Robert D. Bond -- Geopolitics and foreign policy in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile / Howard T. Pittman -- Bolivia : Salida al Mar / Douglas H. Shumavon -- Emerging regional power : Mexico's role in the Caribbean Basin / John F. McShane -- Cuba's foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America / Juan M. del Aguila -- Changes in the regional foreign policies of the English-speaking Caribbean / Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner -- Future directions for research on Latin American foreign policies -- Toward a theory for the comparative analysis of Latin American foreign policy / Elizabeth G. Ferris.