How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and
gave Latin America a new position in the world. After the Second World War demolished the …

Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to
the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to …

If Latin America's public universities are considered part of the state, then it seems plausible
to characterise them as similar to the state, ie as clientelistic. However, this plausible …

This chapter examines how Latin American dependency theory became a global counter–
Cold War social science. To do so, it focuses on a transnational network of economists and …

This chapter examines the development of the critique of cultural imperialism that emerged
amongst Latin American leftists in the 1960s through an analysis of the work of the Ford …

The Ford Foundation's involvement with the social sciences in Brazil coincided with the early
years of the military regime that ruled the country between 1964 and 1985. The paper …

In 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her goal of “transforming both
State and USAID,” the US Agency for International Development, in order to “build up our …

This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in
Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this …

Abstract The Cold War assumptions of mainstream Latin American studies in the United
States were challenged in the 1960s by a new generation of academics that opened up the …

Este trabajo se propone analizar los alcances de la cooperación científica internacional en
los procesos de modernización de la ciencia en la región. En esta dirección, se detiene en …