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Examines how North American scholarship on Latin America has tended to support US policy toward that part of the world since the latter part of the nineteenth century. This work looks at universities, research centers, the various branches of the US government, and the numerous philanthropic foundations concerned with Latin America.

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Berger (Murdoch Univ., Australia) has written what can only be described as a Latin American specialist's dream text. His bibliographic study of US-Latin American research, 1898-1990, is comprehensive, well written, and moderate in tone, despite the author's clear opposition to US intervention in the region. Berger's main thesis is that academic scholarship on US policy in the hemisphere has contributed to a maintenance of North American hegemony over Latin American nations. Berger is cautious not to turn his study into a Marxist polemic; instead, he carefully and meticulously describes the work of prominent scholars in the field, while commenting on how their research contributed to the domination of the US over its neighbors. Although Berger emphasizes that his work is unique in employing new theoretical frameworks such as Gramscian international relations theory and a poststructural discourse approach, other books such as Howard Wiarda's Ethnocentrism in Foreign Policy: Can We Understand the Third World? (1985) and U.S. Latin American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook, ed. by David Dent (1995), have previously treated the relationship between scholarship and US policy objectives. Berger may be more pronounced in criticizing scholars for supporting the existing policy paradigm, but his observations are not revelations. Graduate students; faculty. M. J. Kryzanek Bridgewater State College