ABSTRACT

This essay reviews the burgeoning literature on Latin America’s distinctive variant of the Cold War since about 2000. First, it examines a watershed of recent collaborations between Latin American area specialists and foreign relations scholars, which has dramatically transformed Latin American Cold War Studies. Then, it focuses on two of the more fertile veins in that scholarship: first, the notion that the region’s Cold War should be placed in a broader historical context, which scholars are increasingly referring to as Latin America’s “long Cold War,” and second, the long Cold War’s multivalent cultural dimension. If study of the Latin American Cold War has become something of a growth industry in the last 15 years, its leading edge may well be efforts to tease out the complex, power-laden cultural processes, relationships, exchanges, and institutional forms that antedated and shaped Latin America’s Cold War proper (c. 1947 to the early 1990s), and had consequences beyond the conflict’s denouement.

摘要

本文回顾了自2000年以来拉丁美洲在冷战时期的独特变体的新兴文献。首先，它考察了拉丁美洲地区专家与外交关系学者之间最近合作的分水岭，这极大地改变了拉丁美洲的冷战研究。然后，它着重研究该学术领域中两个更富饶的脉络：首先，该地区的冷战应置于更广泛的历史背景下的观念，学者们越来越将其称为拉丁美洲的“长期冷战”，其次， ，是漫长的冷战的多元文化层面。如果在过去的15年中，对拉丁美洲冷战的研究已成为增长行业，那么它的领先优势很可能是努力弄清复杂的，充满权力的文化过程，人际关系，交流，