American CivilizationInstitute for the Study of the Americas, 2007 - 105 páginas This thought-provoking book demonstrates that, far from being a unique entity, the United States is the most American of nations. It shares with its neighbors to the south an aspiration for equal opportunities and freedoms in a society both defined and divided by race. As Charles A. Jones points out, the United States is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by the greater material capabilities it has been able to apply to this historic task. Although it is sometimes regarded as Western, Jones points out the extremes to which the United States differs from Western Europe: from distinctive levels and styles of religiosity to public violence to respect for law to concern with material accumulation. These traits, far from constituting a claim to exceptionality, bind the U.S. firmly to the rest of the American hemisphere. In fact, Jones argues, it was separated only by the strange accident of historiography that created a Latin America little more than a century ago. He projects that these perceived differences between the United States and its southern neighbors will fade in the near future, and looks forward to a truly inclusive America. |
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... relations and Latin American writings on the same subject . The first - regardless of school or methodology – were for many years obsessed with the causes , conduct , and resolution of armed conflicts : ' Peace Studies ' no less than ...
... relations . As early as 1881 , US Secretary of State James Blaine had proposed a conference of American states to consider the prevention of war between them and to consider other ways in which their mutual relations might more readily ...
... relations in the Americas might seem to be the failure of regional balancing . If , as many political scientists have argued , balanc- ing against an emergent hegemon is the universal norm in international relations , then how on earth ...