Cuba and the Roots of U.S. Foreign Relations

Gaddis Smith. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993 . New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. 280 pp.
Thomas G. Paterson. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution .     

The Export-Import Bank and U.S. Foreign Economic Relations

Book reviewed:
William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan, Jr. The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States , 1934 – 2000. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 340 pp. $80.00 (cloth).     

Negotiating National Identity: A Reexamination of U.S.-Philippines Relations

Nick Cullather. Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942–1960 .     

Cultural Factors in U.S.-India Relations

Book reviewed in this article:
Andrew J. Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964     

Recent Work on U.S. Relations with Costa Rica

Kyle Longley. The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the US during the Rise of José Figueres
Aviva Chomsky. West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1920     

A Multiple Streams Model of U.S. Foreign Aid Policy

This study builds an interactive, quantitative model to explain U.S. foreign aid allocations. We develop an explanation based on Kingdon's multiple streams model to argue that aid decisions are the result of trade ties, socialist orientation, human needs, and the political ideologies of the administration and the senate interacting with adjustments to baseline funding. We find that there are significant conditional relationships between economic and security-related assistance and our external and domestic variables with external variables generally being more important. The findings have implications for the study of public policy, the future of the foreign aid program, and theoretical attempts to develop more generalizable explanations of policy that encompass foreign and domestic issues.