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This work examines how relations between Panama and the United States have always pivoted on the issue of transportation across the country's narrow isthmus and delves into the future of those relations now that Panama controls the canal.

In the English-language survey of Argentine-US relations, the author challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. From the perspectives of both countries, he discusses topics such as Pan-Americanism, petroleum, communism and fascism, and foreign debt.

This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. This book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, and - from the US perspective - often unintended consequences between the two countries.

This study of the political, economic and socio-cultural relationship between the Dominican Republic and the United States follows its evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the mid-1990s, and deals with the interplay of these dimensions from each country's perspective and in both private and public interaction.

Colombia has long been one of the key players in the USA's relations with its Latin American neighbours. This study examines the course of those relations over two centuries, taking into account the political, social, cultural and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction.

This text provides an historical analysis of the main themes and directions of US-Venezuelan relations from the early 1800s to the 1990s. Approaching the subject from both Venezuelan and US perspectives, the author examines the political, economic and cross-cultural dynamics of the two nations.

From the American Revolution to NAFTA to the Helms-Burton Act and beyond, this work offers an assessment of relations between the USA and Canada. It seeks to distil a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic and political developments of mutual importance during the past two centuries.

Focusing on what President McKinley called ""the ties of singular intimacy"" linking the destinies of the United States and Cuba, Louis A. Perez examines the points at which they have made contact - politically, culturally, economically - and explores the dilemmas that have arisen.