Claudia Kedar: The International Monetary Fund and Latin America

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Chronicling the sometimes questionable relationship between the International Monetary Fund and Latin America from 1944 to the present<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909096&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The International Monetary Fund and Latin America</h1> <H2>The Argentine Puzzle in Context</H2> <h3>Claudia Kedar</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0909-1 $74.50, Jan 13, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-0911-3 $74.50 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 264 pp 6x9 2 tables </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Kedar’s book is one of the most significant analyses yet written on the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Argentina. Although numerous commentators have dealt with aspects of this important subject, Kedar advances our understanding considerably through her insightful analysis of new sources and fresh conceptualization of IMF relations with sovereign states. Her choice of Argentina as a focus of this study is a wise one, for, as she notes, few other Latin American nations have experienced such a range of interactions with the IMF. </I>The International Monetary Fund and Latin America<I> represents a major contribution not only to the rich literature on political economy in Argentina, but also to the history of postwar Latin America and the rise of the current global financial and international systems more generally."</I><br>&#151<b>Eduardo Elena</b>, Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami, and author of <I>Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption </I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF's intervention, there are influential interactions between IMF technocrats and local economists—even when countries are not borrowing money. <P>In <i>The International Monetary Fund and Latin America</i>, Kedar seeks to expose the motivations and constraints of the operations of both the IMF and borrowers. With access to never-before-seen archive materials, Kedar reveals both the routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have depicted International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and the asymmetrical IMF-Argentina relations in particular. <P>Kedar also analyzes the "routine of dependency" that characterizes IMF-borrower relations with several Latin American countries such as Chile, Peru, and Brazil. <i>The International Monetary Fund and Latin America</i> shows how debtor countries have adopted the IMF's policies during past decades and why contemporary Latin American leaders largely refrain from knocking at the IMF's doors. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction <br>1. Multilateralism from the Margins: Latin America and the Founding of the IMF, 1942–1945 <br>2. It Takes Three to Tango: Argentina, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the United States, 1946–1956 <br>3. Dependency in the Making: The First Loan Agreement and the Consolidation of the Formal Relationship with the IMF, 1957–1961 <br>4. Fluctuations in the Routine of Dependency: Argentine–IMF Relations in a Decade of Political Instability, 1962–1972 <br>5. All Regimes Are Legitimate: The IMF’s Relations with Democracies and Dictatorships, 1973–1982 <br>6. Routine of Dependency or Routine of Detachment? Looking for a New Model of Relations with the IMF <br>Conclusions <br>Notes <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Claudia Kedar</b> is a Lecturer in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and in the School of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/latin.html" TARGET="_top">Latin American/Caribbean Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909096&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2013 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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