Chapter 9 Inter-State Relations within Latin America -- Responses to US Power -- Policy Options -- Summary -- Chapter 10 The US and Latin America -- The Cold War -- Perspectives on US-Latin American Relations -- Policy Objectives -- Obama, Trump, and the Future of US Policy Towards Latin America -- The Obama Presidency -- The Trump Presidency -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Latin America, Europe, and Asia -- Relations with Europe -- The EU and Institutionalized Political Dialogue -- Problems and Issues -- Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region -- Summary -- Part IV Political Ideas -- Chapter 12 Left and Right -- Formative Themes -- Ideas and Themes on the Left -- The 'Pink Tide' -- Ideas and Themes on the Right -- Development of the Right -- The Right and Democracy -- Contemporary Conservatism -- Summary -- Chapter 13 Identities: Nationalism, Race, Ethnicity, Ecologism, and Sexuality -- Nationalism -- Racial and Ethnic Themes -- Afro-Latin Americans -- Ecologism -- Gender, Feminism, and Sexuality -- Summary -- Part V Economic Ideas -- Chapter 14 Structuralism, Dependency, and Redistributive Models -- From Export-Led Growth to Industrialization -- Dependency Approaches -- Redistributive Models -- Socialism and the Cuban Model -- Populist Models -- Neostructuralism -- Summary -- Chapter 15 Neoliberalism -- The Nature of Latin American Capitalism and the Debt Crisis -- Policy Tools -- Globalization -- Criticisms of Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism and Conservative Economic Approaches Today -- Summary -- Chapter 16 Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development -- Development Models and the Environment -- Key Environmental Challenges -- Climate Change -- The Environment and Economics -- Sustainable Development -- Economic Policy Tools for the Environment -- Economic Policies to Confront Climate Change -- Summary -- Appendix A Country Timelines and Factboxes