| In Brief | 1 |
| Open Forum | 4 |
| Rospigliosi, Fernando | |
| Minding the Backyard: Washington's Latin America Policy After the Cold War | 6 |
| Burt, Jo-Marie | |
| Permanent Preeminence: U.S. Strategic Policy for the 21st Century | 8 |
| Klare, Michael T. | |
| Cocaine Madness: Counternarcotics and Militarization in the Andes | 16 |
| Youngers, Coletta | |
| Yanquis Return to El Salvador | 20 |
| Brackley, Dean | |
| The Value of Vieques | 24 |
| Murillo, Mario | |
| Preserving Hegemony: National Security Doctrine in the Post-Cold War Era | 26 |
| McSherry, J. Patrice | |
| Training Assassins | 28 |
| Panetta, Linda & Serraglio, Randy | |
| A Politics-Driven Policy: Washington's Cuba Agenda is Still in Place-For Now | 35 |
| LeoGrande, William | |
| Polyarchy: Coercion's New Face in Latin America | 42 |
| Robinson, William I. | |
| Profiteering in the Hemisphere | 49 |
| Henwood, Doug | |
| Books | 63 |
| Vickers, George |
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