{"product_id":"9798216396956","title":"US-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century The Blackest Gold","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUS-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Blackest Gold\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRichard M. Balzano\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Latin America \/ South America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetween 1975 and 1983, Guatemala's hydrocarbon development became deeply entangled with state-led violence during the country's civil war. \u003c\/b\u003eThe United States' efforts to secure favorable access to Guatemalan oil intersected with-and in some cases redirected-the trajectory of U.S. foreign assistance and human rights policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first book on U.S.-Guatemalan hydrocarbon relations, Richard M. Balzano exposes the arms-for-aid diplomacy and duplicity in the Reagan administration, who actively supported the Guatemalan government as they inflicted violence on their own citizens. \u003ci\u003eUS-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e makes several original contributions to the existing scholarship on Guatemalan energy development and inter-American resource imperialism. Balzano challenges the notion that Guatemala was a peripheral concern in Reagan's Cold War strategy in Central America, arguing instead that it played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. regional policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRichard M. Balzano\u003c\/b\u003e is the President of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. He lectures in History and Political Science at Springfield College, and he teaches History at Western New Mexico University. His research examines U.S. foreign policy and Latin America's Cold War through the intersecting lenses of human rights, foreign aid and sanctions, the politics of information and narrative management, and resource diplomacy, extractive imperialism, and the political economy of international power and intervention. He writes a bi-weekly political column for the New Hampshire Gazette.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216396956\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e248\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51197281075340,"sku":"9798216396956","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798216396956","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}