Addicted to failure U.S. security policy in Latin America and the Andean Region

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

U.S. security policies in Latin America and the Andean Region, 1990-2006 / Brian Loveman -- Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative : lights and shadows / Eduardo Pizarro and Pilar Gaitán -- U.S. security policy and U.S.- Venezuela relations / Orlando J. Pérez -- U.S. Andean policy, the Colombian conflict, and security in Ecuador / Adrián Bonilla, Kenneth Lehman -- A "medicine of death?" U.S. policy and political disarray in Bolivia, 1985-2006 / Kenneth Lehman -- U.S. policy toward Peru : at odds for twenty years / Enrique Obando -- Brazil, Andean security, and U.S. regional security policy / Monica Herz -- The European Union and security and defense policy in the Andean Region / Philipp Schönrock-Martínez -- After Iraq : next Colombia? the United States and (in)security in South America / Juan Gabriel Tokatlian.