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The last good neighbor : Mexico in the global sixties /

The last good neighbor tells the story of the Cold War in Mexico from a perspective that is simultaneously local, regional and global. Eric Zolov shows how the strategic and discursive framework of the "Good Neighbor" (FDR's foreign policy of non-intervention and friendly relations wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zolov, Eric (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
Mexico > Foreign relations > 1946-1970.
Cold War.
Mexico > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Mexico in the Global Sixties
  • Mexico's "Restless" Left and the Resurrection of Lázaro Cárdenas
  • "Luniks and Sputniks in Chapultepec!": The 1959 Soviet Exhibition and Peaceful Coexistence in Mexico
  • Mexico's New Internationalism: Regional Leadership amid the Tumult of the Cuban Revolution
  • The "Spirit of Bandung" in Mexican National Politics
  • The "Preferred Revolution": Confronting the Crisis of Mexican Neutralism
  • New Left Splits: The Implosion of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional
  • Apex of Internationalism: Pursuing a Global Pivot
  • The Last Good Neighbor
  • Into the Global 1970s.