U.S. and Latin American Relations. This item is unavailable.U.S. and Latin American Relations

A textbook providing theoretical and historical analyses for understanding contemporary US-Latin American relations.

Gregory Weeks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has a long track record of writing clear, accessible, and empirically grounded work on US-Latin American relations and Latin American politics. He is the author of another textbook, Understanding Latin American Politics (2014), and has authored a blog on the topic for fifteen years. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Latin Americanist for fifteen years as well.

Michael Allison is Professor and Chair of Political Science at The University of Scranton. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award to Guatemala in 2013 and a Fulbright Student Scholar Award to El Salvador in 1997. He has been recognized as the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year at The University of Scranton in 2021 and won the Excellence in Integrating Mission and Justice into the Curriculum Award in 2015 and 2019. He has provided expert witness testimony in over fifty asylum cases for Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking asylum in the United States.