Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region's past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America's ongoing political struggles.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Between nationalism and internationalism: Latin America and the Third World / Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà -- A brave new world: Brazil and India, 1948-1961 / Miguel Serra Coelho -- The limits of nationalism: Bolivia between Washington, Prague, and Havana, 1960-1962 / Thomas C. Field Jr. -- Tractors of discord: Mexican-Soviet encounters in the early 1960s / Vanni Pettinà -- Latin America's role in the global order: Brazil and non-alignment, 1961-1964 / Stella Krepp -- Not a revolution but an evolution: community development in Cold War Guatemala / Sarah Foss -- Negotiating non-alignment: Cuba, the USSR, and the non-aligned movement / Michelle Getchell -- Argentina's secret Cold War: vigilance, repression, and nuclear independence / David M.K. Sheinin -- Anti-imperialist racial solidarity before the Cold War: success and failure / Alan McPherson -- Paradise lost and found: Latin American tercermundistas in the Soviet Union / Tobias Rupprecht -- Cuba, the United States, and the uses of the Third World Project, 1959-1967 / Eric Gettig -- Revolutions entangled: Chile, Algeria, and the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s / Eugenia Palieraki -- A Mexican new international economic order? / Christy Thornton -- Liberating the isthmus: Third Worldism and the Panama Canal, 1971-1978 / Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva -- Isolating Nicaragua's Somoza: Sandinista diplomacy in Western Europe, 1977-1979 / Eline van Ommen -- The Third World in Latin America / Odd Arne Westad.