The United States and the Andean Republics: Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador (American Foreign Policy Library)

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Analyzing the political culture of the Andean republics of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador and of the US, Fredrick Pike finds in their relationships deep divergencies in values and goals. Andeans, he shows, have traditionally viewed with suspicion the tenets associated with liberal democracy, secularism, and individualistic capitalism. In a detailed study of Andean politics, economics, social classes, and cultural patterns Within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Pike determines that revolutionary ideology frequently merely masked the ambitions of aspiring elites anxious to retain the traditional order but wishing to wrest its advantages from incumbent elites. He shows the appeal of Marxism and of up to date external-domination, internal-dependency theories, in addition to the basic conservatism of land-reform programs and approaches to the “Indian problem.”

Pike also speculates on whether an “iron law of dependency” is keen on Andean relations with the US. He discusses the role of multinational corporations and the increasing “privatization of dependency.” Within the emerging postmodern era, Pike suggests, the values of Western-style modernity are even less viable in Andean The us and indeed would possibly not have the ability to live on in the US.

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