Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figure
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Part One
  • I. A Statist Approach to the Study of Foreign Policy
  • The Empirical Evidence
  • The Analytic Framework
  • Two Alternative Perspectives: Marxism and Liberalism
  • A Preliminary Defense ofStatism
  • II. The National Interest and Raw Materials
  • A Deductive Approach
  • An Inductive Approach
  • III. Policy-making in a Weak State
  • Strong and Weak States
  • The American Political System
  • State Leadership and Societal Constraints
  • Part Two
  • IV .The Promotion of Investments
  • Three Cases of Extensive State Interventiot
  • Rubber in Liberia
  • Oil in the Middle East and the Dutch East Indies
  • Oil in Iran, 1951-1955
  • Unsuccessful Efforts to Expand
  • Conclusion
  • Part Three
  • V. An Overview of the Problem of Nationalization
  • The Problem of Nationalization
  • State Policy for the Protection of Investments: A Preview
  • VI. The Protection of Investments before 1950
  • Mexico, 1910-1928
  • The Bolivian and Mexican Oil Nationalizations of 1937 and 1938
  • Oil Policy in the Middle East, 1940-1950
  • Conclusion
  • VII. The Protection of Investments after 1950:Diplomacy and Economic Pressure
  • Laws and Doctrines in the Postwar Period
  • Inaction: Copper in Zambia
  • Active Accommodation: Copper in Chile,1960-1970
  • Economic Coercion and Accommodation:Peru, 1963-1975
  • The Oil Crisis
  • Conclusion
  • VIII. The Protection of Investments after 1950:The Use of Force
  • Guatemala
  • Cuba
  • The Dominican Republic
  • Chile under Salvador Allende
  • Conclusion
  • Part Four
  • IX. Conclusions and Prospects
  • Interest and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Prospects
  • Appendix: The Evolution of Foreign Raw Materials Investments
  • Bibliography
  • Index