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Dependency and Imperialism: The Roots of Latin American Underdevelopment:
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The failure of the Alliance for Progress as an effective instrument for bringing about fundamental change must certainly represent the high-water mark of American innocence abroad as mentioned in this paper, and the failure of that experiment must be acknowledged.Abstract:
governments in Latin America, wherever necessary, would undertake fundamental land and tax reforms with a helping hand from the United States. Seven years later, the failure of that experiment must be acknowledged.... The faith we placed in the Alliance for Progress as an effective instrument for bringing about fundamental change must certainly represent the high-water mark of American innocence abroad.1 1read more
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A Multivariate Analysis of Regional Political Integration the Case of the Caribbean Free Trade Area and the Caribbean Community and Common Market, 1965-1983
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a review of the literature concerning the topic of regional political integration and provide an operational definition of region political integration which can be useful in the testing of hypotheses.
Towards sustainable housing provision in Queensland rural and remote Aboriginal communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined past and current housing policies and programs during three time periods namely; pre-European contact; European contact and post-1967 and concluded that the main thrust of housing provision was focused on the "product approach" instead of the "process approach to housing".
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Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism
TL;DR: Three interrelated views on economic imperialism and United States foreign policy prevail today: (1) economic imperialism is not at the root of United States Foreign Policy; (2) political aims and national security are the prime motivators of foreign policy; and (3) Economic imperialism cannot be the main element in foreign policy determination, since United Statesforeign trade and foreign investment make such relatively small contributions to the nation's overall economic performance.