The United States and Western Europe: Competition or Co-Operation in Latin America

1982 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Grabendorff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States

Canada and Pan America

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
East End

Herman Kahn said recently that Canada is a regional power without a region. Canada is something of a sport, a nuisance to those who like their political geography neat—rather like Australia or Albania. There are arguments for attaching us to various regions or groups of states. If there is one region, however, to which Canada does not naturally belong it is the so-called Western Hemisphere. Although the Rio Treaty somewhat presumptuously included Canada and Greenland in the area to the defence of which Argentina would rush, we are for purposes of election to the Security Council attached to Western Europe. The Western Hemisphere, as I understand it, begins in the east end of London, includes most of England, all of Ireland, and then goes westward into Siberia. The term has acquired a certain geopolitical significance because it has been a handy way to describe the unnatural but historical relationship between the United States and Latin America.

scholarly journals A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Jessie Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Book History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
History Of

When he declared, “the physical book really has had a 500-year run” in a 2009 interview, Jeff Bezos might well be forgiven for thinking that the book began with Gutenberg. Histories of the book have tended to give the impression that it emerged with movable type and existed largely, if not exclusively, in Mainz, New York, London, Paris, Venice, and environs. The first edition to A Companion to the History of the Book, first published in 2007, was a welcome, albeit modest, corrective to this narrow focus. While the bulk of its attention was on print in Western Europe and the United States, it incorporated chapters on manuscripts, books in Asia and Latin America, and the Hebraic and Islamic traditions, broadening the scope of book history both chronologically and geographically.

Juan Bautista Alberdi: A Study of his thought

1973 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-501
Author(s):  
John E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Politically Active ◽  
Material Progress

During the nineteenth century Latin America produced a significant number of thinkers and philosophers who recognized that their countries were failing to keep pace with Western Europe and the United States in material progress, social equality and political stability. Some of these men were primarily abstract thinkers, but many were politically active and exercised considerable influence through their writing. Juan Bautista Alberdi, an Argentine, was a member of the latter group whose ideas are still discussed frequently today.

Other Administrative Traditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-177
Author(s):  
B. Guy Peters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Central Question ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Western European

The four traditions constituting the bulk of this book are from Western Europe. This chapter expands the analysis to look at four other administrative traditions. One is Central and Eastern Europe. Some countries in this region have been heavily influenced by Western European traditions, especially those of the former Hapsburg Empire, but they also display a number of distinctive features. A second tradition is Islamic administration, which has been influenced both by religion and by national cultures. Third, there is Asian public administration, and the question of the importance of the Confucian model is a central question when dealing with this tradition. Finally, there is administration in Latin America, still influenced by its Iberian past but which has been influenced also by the Napoleonic tradition and to a lesser extent by the United States. The same elements of administrative traditions used in reference to Western European countries are applied to these four traditions.

Bioinformatics

2017 ◽  
pp. 18-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Niosi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Human Animal

Bioinformatics is the methodological tool required to use the massive genomics databases being created on human, animal, bacterial and vegetal organisms. This paper retraces the development of bioinformatics as a new discipline and its diffusion into Latin America. It argues that governments in the region do not pay enough attention at this fast-growing new area of the set of biotech technologies stemming from the convergence between information and communication technology and biotechnologies, and in consequence, the region is falling increasingly behind the world leader (the United States), Japan and Western Europe.

Bioinformatics

Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Niosi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Human Animal

Bioinformatics is the methodological tool required to use the massive genomics databases being created on human, animal, bacterial and vegetal organisms. This paper retraces the development of bioinformatics as a new discipline and its diffusion into Latin America. It argues that governments in the region do not pay enough attention at this fast-growing new area of the set of biotech technologies stemming from the convergence between information and communication technology and biotechnologies, and in consequence, the region is falling increasingly behind the world leader (the United States), Japan and Western Europe.

The Early Teaching of John Paul II

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
New Framework

The future Pope John Paul II’s intellectual development was shaped by his experience in communist Poland, a context very different from Western Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where the main strands of Catholic social thought had emerged. As archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyła developed a philosophy centered on the concepts of praxis and participation, which laid the groundwork for his later social teaching as pope. This chapter looks at this early philosophical work, as well as his first two social encyclicals, Laborem Exercens and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis. In particular, it looks at the issues of human work, structures of sin, and liberation. John Paul II’s early teachings represent the beginning of a new framework for Catholic social teaching, the communio framework, which emphasizes the distinctiveness of Christian revelation in the midst of the contradictions of modernity.

Comparing Human Rights: South Africa and Argentina, 1976–1989

1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-287
Author(s):  
Christopher Merrett ◽  
Roger Gravil
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Promising Trend ◽  
General Improvement ◽  
Vexing Question

Until recently it was rare to bring South Africa and Latin America into a shared focus for any purpose at all. Both regions habitually looked towards the United States of America and Western Europe and showed no interest in each other. With a few exceptions there was scant intellectual concern aroused by their common southern location. In the last few years, however, a number of academics have begun to show interest in comparisons and contrasts derivable from South Africa and Latin America. Our intention is to join this promising trend by examining the vexing question of human rights in South Africa and Argentina since the Soweto massacre and Peronist collapse in 1976. In that historic year of burgeoning abuse, Richard Claude complained that “comparative human rights research has not been systematic.” Concentration on definite themes in two appallingly delinquent countries may contribute to the general improvement he urged.

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