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A 10 page research paper that compares and contrasts 2 texts on Latin American economics. The two texts profiled are Latin America at the Crossroads by H.J. Wiarda (1987) and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century (1997). A through overview of each text is offered, and then the texts are contrasted for quality and content, which are--in both cases -- very good. However, the final assessment in regards to these texts is that their greatest drawback, in regards to applicability by the reader, is that neither book addresses current Latin American realities as one is 17 years out-of-date and the other is 7. No additional sources cited.
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Crossroads by H.J. Wiarda (1987) and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century (1997). A through overview of each text is offered, and then the texts
are contrasted for quality and content, which are--in both cases -- very good. However, the final assessment in regards to these texts is that their greatest drawback, in regards to
applicability by the reader, is that neither book addresses current Latin American realities as one is 17 years out-of-date and the other is 7. Latin America at the Crossroads by
H.J. Wiarda Howard Wiarda is a professor of political science and comparative labor relations, in addition to being the Leonard J. Horwitz Chair if Iberian and Latin American Studies at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has worked for the Department of Defense, as well as other government agencies. Wiarda also has numerous other published works, such as US
Foreign and Strategic Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (1996) and Democracy and Its Discontents (1995). (This information was found online at http://www.csis.org/experts/4wiarda.htm, if the student researching this topic wishes
to cite this source.) Wiardas text was originally prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank, but is also intended for a general reading audience. He states that his intent is that
"academic specialists, foreign policy analysts and practitioners, and those in the commercial banks and international lending agencies will find it useful as well" (xi). His ultimate goal in writing this
text is that out of discussion such as this, policies can be determined that can resolve the problems faced in Latin America. At the time that this text was
written, i.e. late 1980s, at a time when Latin America was undergoing the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Therefore, the principal purpose of Wiardas study is
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