Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Roxborough, Ian | Barnhart, Michael | Gootemberg, Paul | Offner, Amy.
Date
2015-08-01
Keywords
History
Department
Department of History.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77724
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This study analyzes the making Alliance for Progress from an Inter-American perspective by exploring the relationship between United States, Argentina and Venezuela during the implementation of the program. Based upon Inter-American research, this study explains the complexity and contradictions that aroused from this Development alliance. By placing special attention to the Inter-American complexities and contradictions behind the conceptualization and implementation of the Alliance for Progress, this study shows why Argentina and Venezuela had very different relationship with the program. Moreover, this work explains the reasons behind the Alliance's inability to promote Development based on democracy and economic growth. This study also demonstrates that the Alliance for Progress, as any other foreign aid program, was structurally incapable of promoting Development. In addition, it also demonstrates that the Inter-American system functions as a regional entity where U.S. and Latin American historical processes are tightly interrelated in a cause-effect relationship. Finally, this dissertation makes a contribution by showing the use of history both for decision makers and citizens. | 203 pages
Recommended Citation
Espinoza, Cristobal, "The Struggle for Promoting Development. An Inter-American analysis on the making of the Alliance for Progress. Argentina, Venezuela and the United States" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3511.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3511