Week 1 (2/18): Course overview and introduction / The Iberian Conquest and the Colonial Fundamentals and Heritage

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Setting the Scene: The Iberian Conquest” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-25).

Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith and James N. Green. 2014. “The Colonial Foundations” in Modern Latin America (8th Edition). New York: Oxford University Press - (Chapter 2, pp.16-44).

*Robert T. Buckman. 2014. “Conquest, Colonization, and the Challenge of Independence” in Latin America (48^th Edition – World Today Series). Lanham, MD: Stryker Post Publications (pp. 17-22).

*Charles W. Arnade, Arthur P. Whitaker and Bailey W. Diffie. 1960. “Causes of Spanish-American Wars of Independence,” Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr., 1960), pp. 125-144.

Week 2 (2/25): The Thrive for Sovereignty and Emancipation – Nation-building in Latin America

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “The Authoritarian Republicanism of Bolivar” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 26-53).

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “The Liberal Republicanism of Sarmiento and Alberdi” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 54-73).

* Miguel Angel Centeno. 1997. “Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth Century Latin America,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 106, No. 6 (May 1997), pp. 1565-1605.

*Julia Gaffield. 2012. “Haiti and Jamaica in the Remaking of the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 583-614.

Week 3 (3/4): Economic Liberalism, Positivism, and Anti-Positivism in 19^th century Latin America

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Homegrown and Imported Positivism” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 94-130).

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Marti’s Liberal Anti-Positivism” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 131-151).

* Arturo Ardao. 1963. “Assimilation and Transformation of Positivism in Latin America,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1963), pp. 515-522.

*Elías José Palti. 2009. “Beyond Revisionism: The Bicentennial of Independence, the Early Republican Experience, and Intellectual History in Latin America,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Oct., 2009), pp. 593-614.

Week 4 (3/11): Latin Americanism and Anti-Imperialism in the 20^th century

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Utopian Latin Americanism: Arielism and Mestizofilia” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 152-172).

Gobat, Michel. 2013. “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review, Vol. 118, No. 5 (December 2013), pp. 1345-1375.

*Idelber Avelar. 1997. “Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism,” Dispositio, Vol. 22, No. 49, pp. 121-133.

*Elizabeth Millan-Zibert. 2007. “A Great Vanishing Act?: The Latin American Philosophical Tradition and How Ariel and Caliban Helped Save It from Oblivion,” CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (winter 2007), pp. 149-169.

Week 5 (3/18): Revolution and Socialism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alan Knight. 2001. “Democratic and Revolutionary Traditions in Latin America.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 147-186.

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Soft and Hard Socialism” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 173-203).

*John Foran. 2009. “Theorizing the Cuban Revolution,” Latin American Perspectives

Vol. 36, No. 2, (Mar., 2009), pp. 16-30.

*Erich Weede and Edward N. Muller, “Rebellion, Violence and Revolution: A Rational Choice Perspective,” in Journal of Peace Research 35:1 (Jan. 1998), pp. 43-59.

Week 6 (3/25): Populism, Nationalism, and Dependency Theory in the making of Contemporary Latin America

James A. Caporaso. 1980. “Dependency Theory: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development Studies,” International Organization, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp.605-628.

Kenneth M. Roberts. 2006. “Populism, Political Conflict, and Grass-Roots Organizations in Latin America,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp.127-148.

*Matthias Vom Hau. 2008. “State Infrastructural Power and Nationalism: Comparative Lessons from Mexico and Argentina,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 43, article no. 334.

*Ramón Grosfoguel. 2000. “Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America,” Nepantla: Views from the South, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.347-374.

*Alan Knight. 1998. “Populism and Neo-Populism in Latin America, especially Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 30, 223-248.

Week 7 (4/1): Dictatorships, Insurgencies, and Religion: The Liberation Theology and the Catholic Church

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Liberation Theory and Philosophy” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 204-230).

Ronaldo Munck. 1985. “The ‘Modern’ Military Dictatorship in Latin America: The Case of Argentina (1976-1982),” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 12, No.4, 41-74.

*Frederick M. Shepherd. 2021. “The Politics of the Catholic Church in Latin America” in The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America. New York: Routledge (pp.32-62).

*Carlo Edoardo Altamura. 2020. “Global Banks and Latin American Dictators, 1974-1982,” Business History Review, 2020, 1-32.

Week 8 (4/6): Midterm Activity (TBA)

Week 9 (4/15): Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Democratization in Post-Cold War Latin America and the Caribbean

Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. “Free Trade and Neoliberal Reform,” in U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (pp. 177-206).

Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. “Human Rights and Democracy,” in U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.) West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (pp.258-283).

*John Williamson. 2009. “A Short History of the Washington Consensus,” Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol 15, No. 7, 7-23.

*Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang. “Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?” in Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernandez-Kelley (editors), Globalization and Beyond: New Examination of Global Powers and Its Alternatives, 1-48. Penn State University Press.

Week 10 (4/22): Post-Neoliberal Regional Integration and Rival Views on Latin America and the Caribbean

Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. “Challenges to U.S. Hegemony,” in U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.) West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (pp.207--231).

Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith and James N. Green. 2014. “Latin America in the World Arena, 1990s-Present” in Modern Latin America (8th Edition). New York: Oxford University Press - (Chapter 1, pp.460-486).

*Frederick M. Shepherd. 2021. “The Politics of Transnational Corporations in Latin America” in The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America. New York: Routledge (pp. 63-98).

*Javier Corrales and Carlos A. Romero. 2016. “U.S.-Venezuelan Relations after Hugo Chavez” in Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro (eds.), Contemporary U.S.-Latin America Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century? New York: Routledge (pp. 214-235).

Week 11 (4/29): National Security, the War on Drugs and Transnational Criminal Networks in the Region

Frederick M. Shepherd. 2021. “The Politics of Transnational Drug Networks in Latin America” in The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America. New York: Routledge (pp.99-126).

Durán-Martínez, Angélica. "Drugs Around the Corner: Domestic Drug Markets and Violence in Colombia and Mexico." Latin American Politics and Society 57, no. 3 (2015): 122-46.

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías. 2018. “The Consequences of Militarizing Anti-Drug Efforts for State Capacity in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico,” Comparative Politics, Vol.51, No.1, pp.1-20.

*Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. “Drug Trafficking and Terrorism,” in U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.) West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (pp.258-283).

*Gema Santamaria. 2016. “Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Criminal Violence in U.S.—Latin American Relations” in Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro (eds.), Contemporary U.S.-Latin America Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century? New York: Routledge (pp.255-276).

*Hermes Ulises Prieto Mora. 2018. “Government advertising and the war on drugs: the narrative proposed by the Mexican Federal Government (2006-2012),” Communication & Society, Vol. 31, No, 1, 107-124.

Week 12 (5/6): Migration between Latin American and Caribbean countries, and to the United States

Allert Brown-Gort. 2016. “U.S. Immigration Policy: Politicization and Impasse,” in Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro (eds.), Contemporary U.S.-Latin America Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, New York: Routledge, (pp. 277-293).

Jonathan T. Hiskey. 2018. “Leaving the Devil You Know: Crime Victimization, US Deterrence Policy, and the Emigration Decision in Central America”, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 53, No.3, pp. 429–447.

Michael J. Camilleri and Fen Osler Hampson. 2018. “No Strangers at the Gate: Collective Responsibility and a Region’s Response to the Venezuelan Refugee and Migration Crisis” in The Dialogue - Centre for International Governance Innovation.

*Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. “Latin American Immigration and U.S. Policy,” in U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.), West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (pp.232-257).

*Myrtle Bell, et al (2014). “‘Diversity,’ immigration, and the new American multi-racial hierarchy,” in Journal of Managerial Psychology, 29:3, 285-303.

Week 13 (5/13): Cultural Developments and Soft Power in Latin America

Eduardo P. Archetti. 1998. “The Meaning of Sport in Anthropology: A View from Latin America,” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, No. 65 (December 1998), pp. 91-103.

Rivas, Ronald M. and David Mayorga. 2011. "Internationalization of Peruvian Cuisine: An Analysis of Internationalization Strategies of Peruvian Restaurants," Innovar: Revista De Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, Vol. 21, No. 39, pp.205-16.

*Lamartine Pereira Dacosta. 2020. “In Search of the Olympic Games’ Future Significances: Contributions from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro,” in Antonio Sotomayor and Cesar R. Torres (editors), Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press (pp.165-184).

*Mercedes Medina and Leticia Barron. 2011. “Latin American Telenovelas on a Global Scale,” Journal of Spanish Language Media, No. 4, pp. 125-149.

Week 14 (5/20): [校際活動週 / 停課 No class]

 

Week 15 (5/27): Social Movements, Human Rights, and Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Frederick M. Shepherd. 2021. “The Politics of Transnational Human Rights Networks in Latin America” in The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America. New York: Routledge (pp.127-157).

Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. “Modest and Immodest Feminism” in An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 26-53).

*Helen Icken Safa. 1990. “Women's Social Movements in Latin America,” Gender and Society, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.354-369

*Kathryn Sinkkink and Carrie Booth Walling. 2007. “The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp.427-445.

Week 16 (6/3): Wrap-up and review of topics for final papers

Week 17 (6/10): Self-study session [selected cases of LAC countries foreign policy analysis]

Week 18 (6/17): Final paper deadline

This course is a partially required one within the area of regional studies. Students attendance and participation are essential to the course. Preparation and discussion are therefore highly encouraged. The composition of evaluation is as follows:

1. Presentations (30%):

Each week, one student will be responsible for analyzing and commenting the assigned readings. The presentation should incorporate an assessment of the author(s) main argument(s), as well as the principal examples and findings. Each student will be presenting his/her views and leading the discussion. 

2. Attendance and Participation (30%):

Discussion is essential to the class and students are required to raise questions based upon the reading materials for each week. Attendance is an integral part of this section of grades.

3. Final research paper (40%):

The topic of the final paper should be discussed with the instructor before the end of the first hald of the semester. The subject could be related to any of the topics covered during class, or it can also consist in the foreign policy of individual countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The topics will be briefly presented to the rest of the class in Week 16, and by the deadline (Week 18), the student will submit a complete paper  (7-8 thousand words, including bibiography and figures/tables).

* Cell phones shall be turned off or to silent mode during the class. Make-up presentations will not be granted except in case of emergency and in all cases require a note from your doctor.

* The instructor does not accept late assignments.

* This class has a zero-tolerance policy against plagiarism. All assignments are required to be in conformity with NCCU regulations.

• Robert T. Buckman. 2014. Latin America (48^th ed., World Today Series). (Lanham, MD: Stryker Post Publications).


• Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro (eds.), Contemporary U.S.-Latin America Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century? (New York: Routledge).


• Susana Nuccetelli. 2020. An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).


• Michael Reid. 2017. Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America. (New Haven: Yale University Press).


• Frederick M. Shepherd. 2021. The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America. (New York: Routledge).


• Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith and James N. Green. 2014. Modern Latin America (8th ed.). (New York: Oxford University Press),


• Gregory B. Weeks. 2015. U.S. and Latin American Relations (2^nd Ed.). (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons).