Table Of ContentLatin American Studies
and the Cold War
Latin American Perspectives
in the Classroom
Series Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote
Titles in Series
Urban Latin America edited by Tom Angotti
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy
of Gender edited by Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens
Contemporary Latin American Revolutions, Second Edition by Marc Becker
Development in Theory and Practice: Latin American Perspectives edited by
Ronald H. Chilcote
Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism and
Resistance in Broad Perspective edited by Steve Ellner
Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings edited by
Steve Ellner
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power
in the Twenty-first Century edited by Steve Ellner
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy”
edited by Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas
Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology
edited by Iván Márquez
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the
Zapatista Rebellion edited by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández, and
Shannan L. Mattiace
The United States and Cuba: From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends by
Francisco López Segrera
Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below
edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker
Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America edited by
Roberta Villalón
Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance,
Power, and Democracy edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden,
and Glen David Kuecker
Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures edited
by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio, with Manolo González-Estay
Latin American Studies and the Cold War edited by Ronald H. Chilcote
Latin American Studies
and the Cold War
Edited by
Ronald H. Chilcote
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Title: Latin American studies and the Cold War / Ronald H. Chilcote.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] | Series: Latin American
perspectives in the classroom | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
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9781538141588 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538141595 (paperback) | ISBN
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Cold War--Influence.
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Contents
Foreword 1
Gilbert M. Joseph
Introduction 15
Ronald H. Chilcote
Chapter 1: The Cold War and the Transformation of Latin American
Studies in the United States 33
Ronald H. Chilcote
Chapter 2: Academic Entrepreneurs, Public Policy, and the Growth
of Latin American Studies in Britain during the Cold War 77
Rory M. Miller
Chapter 3: Between Academia and Civil Society: The Origins of
Latin American Studies in the Netherlands 105
Michiel Baud
Chapter 4: Between Academia and Politics: Latin American Studies
in Germany during the Cold War 125
Hans-Jürgen Puhle
Chapter 5: Latin American Studies in East Central Europe during
the Cold War: The Case of Czechoslovakia 161
Josef Opatrný
Chapter 6: The Cold War and Latin American Area Studies in the
Former USSR: Reflections and Reminiscences 177
Russell H. Bartley
Chapter 7: Latin American Studies in China during the Cold War 207
Mao Xianglin and Shi Huiye
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Chapter 8: The Centro de Estudios sobre América: Notes on a
Little-Known History 215
Luís Suárez Salazar
Afterword 235
Judith Adler Hellman
Appendix: The Latin American Challenge to U.S. Scholarship in
Latin America 249
Ronald H. Chilcote
Index 255
About the Contributors 269
Foreword
Gilbert M. Joseph
This volume’s timely retrospective analysis of the rise of Latin American
studies worldwide during the Cold War has particular significance to me. I
began life as the global Cold War hardened in 1947 and became a serious stu-
dent of Latin America during the most violent period of the regional conflict.
I began researching my dissertation on the defanging of socialist movements
in the Mexican Revolution against the backdrop of the overthrow of Salvador
Allende’s “Peaceful Road to Socialism” in Chile in 1973 and wrote it up as
Operation Condor was being unleashed throughout the Southern Cone in the
late 1970s. My adviser at Yale, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Brazil’s distinguished
historian of slavery and working-class movements, made her way into foreign
academic exile after she was driven from the University of São Paulo by the
Brazilian military junta that had seized power with the U.S. government’s
blessing. In time, my own scholarship came to focus on the Latin American
Cold War, particularly the political-cultural dimensions that are showcased in
such illuminating detail in this collection. Indeed, the trajectory of my entire
career as a historian of Latin American social and revolutionary movements
and of the United States’ preponderant role in opposing them has played out
in the context of a long Cold War that brought epochal changes in the develop-
ment of Latin American studies—in the United States, within the hemisphere,
and globally. As luck would have it, I was able to survey these changes as
president of the Latin American Studies Association as it celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary in 2016 and looked back on its first half century.
This volume’s essays chronicle the genesis and evolution of Latin
American studies in multiple locations during the Cold War. Some of the
contributions double as informal memoirs by the founders, early leaders,
and practitioners of what was then (and still remains) a politically charged
field of study. Here, for the first time, we are able to appreciate the field’s
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