Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-359) and index.

The United States and Latin America in the long run (1800-1945) / James Dunkerley -- US-Latin American relations during the Cold War and its aftermath / Jorge I. Domínguez -- The European Union and the Americas / Laurence Whitehead -- Trade relations in the Americas : MERCOSUR, the free trade area of the Americas and the European Union / Victor Bulmer-Thomas and Sheila Page -- Trade, investment and NAFTA : the economics of neighborhood / E.V.K. Fitzgerald -- United States foreign relations and the promotion of democracy in Latin America / Rodolfo Cerdas Cruz -- The United States and democracy in Mexico / John H. Coatsworth -- Hooked on drugs : Colombian-US relations / Roberto Steiner -- The United States and Bolivia : fighting the drug war / Eduardo A. Gamarra -- Packaging drugs : certification and the acquisition of leverage / Elizabeth Joyce -- Latin American immigration to the United States / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Cuba's economic transformation and conflict with the United States / Juan Triana Cordovi -- The Cuban external sector in the 1990s / Jorge F. Pérez-López -- The politics of the Cuban diaspora in the United States / Maxine Molyneaux.