| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939–1960. By Bradley Lynn Coleman. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xxii, 303 pp. $45.95, ISBN 978-0-87338-926-6.)

This fine-grained study of the development of U.S.-Colombia security relations in World War II and the Cold War draws on archives in both countries to demonstrate that Colombian officials often took the lead in constructing the relationship. Despite an interventionist history going back to Panamanian independence, the United States often found itself responding to Colombian initiatives. From the launching of a military partnership at the suggestion of wartime president Eduardo Santos to close cooperation on counterinsurgency during the Dwight D. Eisenhower era, most steps toward integration were introduced by Colombians.

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