| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Luis Alberto Moniz Bandeira. Argentina, Brasil y Estados Unidos de la Triple Alianza al Mercosur: Conflicto e integración en América del Sur. Translated by Miguel Grinberg. Foreword by Samuel P. Gimarães. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma. 2004. Pp. 581.

This is a long and detailed historical synthesis of relations between Argentina and Brazil from the 1860s through 2002, with ongoing attention to United States strategic, political, and economic interests as they touch on each of the problems considered. The project is ambitious chronologically and in the range of themes it covers. But its objective is murky. Beyond a thorough overview of tripartite ties, it is not clear that the author has an analytical objective. A brief prologue by the historian Samuel P. Gimarães celebrates Luis Alberto Moniz Bandeira's anti-imperialist perspective. But beyond this link, the prologue is oddly detached from the remainder of the book. Moniz Bandeira's own brief introduction touches on everything from his work as a scholar over the past thirty years to Manifest Destiny, the independence of Brazil, and the Bill Clinton presidency. Like Gimarães, he excoriates what he calls the messianic tendency in U.S. foreign policy but gives the reader no insight into what problems or analytical themes drive the work.

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