In October, the Center for Latin American Studies welcomed Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, who lead an insightful discussion about the main thesis of his book, and shared his opinion regarding the future of U.S. policy in the Americas.
It is common for students of inter-American relations to talk of a single U.S. policy towards Latin America. In his latest book, Brazil the United States and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire, Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, a Brazilian scholar, argues that there never was a single U.S. policy on Latin America, because Latin America as a geo-political entity does not exist.
Instead, Poggio Teixeira sees the region as falling under two subsystems: North America (including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean) and South America. In North America, the U.S. has pursued an "imperial policy", while in South America the U.S. behaved more as an "absent empire."
Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira is a current visiting scholar from Brazil in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.
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