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US-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

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US-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

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Between 1975 and 1983, Guatemala's hydrocarbon development became deeply entangled with state-led violence during the country's civil war. The United States' efforts to secure favorable access to Guatemalan oil intersected with-and in some cases redirected-the trajectory of U.S. foreign assistance and human rights policy.

In the first book on U.S.-Guatemalan hydrocarbon relations, Richard M. Balzano exposes the arms-for-aid diplomacy and duplicity in the Reagan administration, who actively supported the Guatemalan government as they inflicted violence on their own citizens. US-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century makes several original contributions to the existing scholarship on Guatemalan energy development and inter-American resource imperialism. Balzano challenges the notion that Guatemala was a peripheral concern in Reagan's Cold War strategy in Central America, arguing instead that it played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. regional policy.

Table of Contents

1: Resource Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Hegemony: An Overview of U.S.-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy from Conception to Inception
2: Oil, Aid, and Human Rights Diplomacy: Lucas and Reagan, Act I
3: Oil, Aid, and Human Rights Diplomacy: Lucas and Reagan, Act II
4: Charlie Wilson's Other War, Act I
5: Charlie Wilson's Other War, Act II

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 04 Feb 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 248
ISBN 9798216396956
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Richard M. Balzano

Richard M. Balzano is Professor of History and Pol…

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