Stella Krepp
Researcher at Uni Bern, PhD at Cambridge University (2013).
Author of "Latin America and the Global Cold War" with Vanni Pettinà and Thomas Field (UNC Press, 2020) and "The Decline of the Western Hemisphere: A History of Inter-American Relations since 1941", currently under review at Cambridge University Press.
Historian of Latin America and the Global South, currently working on a second book on economic worldmaking in the 1950s and 60s in Latin America (Cuba, Brazil, and the British Caribbean). I am particularly interested in relations between Latin American countries and the wider world, the history of political and economic thought, and international history from a Global South perspective. Historiographical challenge du jour: connecting Latin American history and the history of empire on themes like decolonization and the struggle for economic sovereignty (or neo-colonialism as Nkrumah would say).
Work in: German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Author of "Latin America and the Global Cold War" with Vanni Pettinà and Thomas Field (UNC Press, 2020) and "The Decline of the Western Hemisphere: A History of Inter-American Relations since 1941", currently under review at Cambridge University Press.
Historian of Latin America and the Global South, currently working on a second book on economic worldmaking in the 1950s and 60s in Latin America (Cuba, Brazil, and the British Caribbean). I am particularly interested in relations between Latin American countries and the wider world, the history of political and economic thought, and international history from a Global South perspective. Historiographical challenge du jour: connecting Latin American history and the history of empire on themes like decolonization and the struggle for economic sovereignty (or neo-colonialism as Nkrumah would say).
Work in: German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
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Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettinà, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad.
Even though the inter-American system is the oldest of its kind, created long before the European Union was even conceived, it has received very little attention in scholarship. This is might seem surprising at first glance, but it is due to the fact that the OAS has not always been considered a success story and because research on international institutions is notoriously difficult, because of their multilateral character and linguistic diversity.
The envisaged monograph is the first to tell the history of inter-American relations understood as both U.S.-Latin American relations as well as intra-Latin American relations − through the prism of the Organization of American States. Relating crucial events of the U.S.-Latin American relationship from the Good Neighbor Policy in the 1930s and the creation of the inter-American system to the Cuban crisis, U.S. interventions, human rights and decolonisation in the 1970s and subsequent democratisation in the 1980s, the book challenges the perception of the OAS as a handmaiden for U.S. interests in the region. Even though it ultimately charts the decline of the Western Hemisphere as a cohesive unit, this is not a history of failure. The OAS played a pivotal role in Latin American crises and despite not living up to its expectations, it ultimately provided the impetus for Latin American cooperation in other alternative fora such as the Mercosur and ALBA.
As a successor to the Pan American Union of 1889, the OAS is a regional organisation that deals with the peaceful solution of conflicts and collective security, akin to the European Union. It originally comprised twenty-one members twenty Latin American republics and the United States but has grown in number to encompass thirty-four member-states. Based on archival material from the United States and Latin America in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, the provides a re-evaluation of inter-American relations from the 1940s until the 1990s and delivers a timely response to calls for new research that incorporates Latin American voices , uses multi-archival sources , and can thus introduce a multisided narrative of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. From the Western Hemisphere to the West: Global Politics and the Construction of Regions
II. A Time of Hope: The Founding of the Post-War Regional System
III. ‘Economics Cannot be Separated from Politics’: Brazil, Cuba, and the Quest for Development, 1955-61
IV. The Backlash: From the Cuban Exclusion to Direct Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1962-65
V. Decolonisation, Human Rights, and the Case of Nicaragua in the 1970s
VI. ‘The Malvinas Were, Are, and Will Be Argentine’: The Falklands War and Beyond, 1982
Conclusion: A Short Rebirth and Long Decline
Journal Issue by Stella Krepp
Quadrimestral
Resumos em português, inglês e espanhol
Editada e distribuída pela Editora Fundação Getulio Vargas
ISSN: 2178-1494
1. História 2. Historiografia 3. Periódicos 4. Ciências Sociais 5. Economia e Sociedade
I - : Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil da Fundação Getulio Vargas
CDD 981.005
CDU 981(051)
Semillas” Movement in Yucatan - Genner Llanes Ortíz
‘Underdeveloped Economists’: The Study of Economic
Development in Latin America in the 1950s – Stella Krepp
"Vivir Bien": A Discourse and Its Risks for Public Policies. The
Case of Child Labor and Exploitation in Indigenous
Communities of Bolivia – Ruben Dario Chambi
The Production of Meaning, Economy and Politics.
Intercultural Relations, Conflicts, Appropriations,
Articulations and Transformations – Daniel Mato
From the Political-Economic Drought to Collective and
Sustainable Water Management - Gustavo García López
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands: The MST and the
Workers’ Party in Brazil – Bruce Gilbert
Strategic Ethnicity, Nation, and (Neo)colonialism in Latin
America – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Race, Power, Indigenous Resistance and the Struggle for the
Establishment of Intercultural Education – Martina Tonet
Book Review: Climate change and colonialism in the Green
Economy – Sebastian Kratzer
Book Chapter by Stella Krepp
Articles by Stella Krepp
centred on development. Latin American politicians generally framed development as “social progress,” arguing that political and civil rights were meaningless unless basic needs were met. Nonetheless, this decidedly materialist approach to human rights is complicated when
considering how, within months of each other in 1959, both the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights were founded. Looking at debates in the Organization of American States (OAS), this paper relates the fundamentally uneasy relationship between human rights and development in the inter-American system in the 1950s and early 60s.
Reviews by Stella Krepp
Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettinà, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad.
Even though the inter-American system is the oldest of its kind, created long before the European Union was even conceived, it has received very little attention in scholarship. This is might seem surprising at first glance, but it is due to the fact that the OAS has not always been considered a success story and because research on international institutions is notoriously difficult, because of their multilateral character and linguistic diversity.
The envisaged monograph is the first to tell the history of inter-American relations understood as both U.S.-Latin American relations as well as intra-Latin American relations − through the prism of the Organization of American States. Relating crucial events of the U.S.-Latin American relationship from the Good Neighbor Policy in the 1930s and the creation of the inter-American system to the Cuban crisis, U.S. interventions, human rights and decolonisation in the 1970s and subsequent democratisation in the 1980s, the book challenges the perception of the OAS as a handmaiden for U.S. interests in the region. Even though it ultimately charts the decline of the Western Hemisphere as a cohesive unit, this is not a history of failure. The OAS played a pivotal role in Latin American crises and despite not living up to its expectations, it ultimately provided the impetus for Latin American cooperation in other alternative fora such as the Mercosur and ALBA.
As a successor to the Pan American Union of 1889, the OAS is a regional organisation that deals with the peaceful solution of conflicts and collective security, akin to the European Union. It originally comprised twenty-one members twenty Latin American republics and the United States but has grown in number to encompass thirty-four member-states. Based on archival material from the United States and Latin America in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, the provides a re-evaluation of inter-American relations from the 1940s until the 1990s and delivers a timely response to calls for new research that incorporates Latin American voices , uses multi-archival sources , and can thus introduce a multisided narrative of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. From the Western Hemisphere to the West: Global Politics and the Construction of Regions
II. A Time of Hope: The Founding of the Post-War Regional System
III. ‘Economics Cannot be Separated from Politics’: Brazil, Cuba, and the Quest for Development, 1955-61
IV. The Backlash: From the Cuban Exclusion to Direct Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1962-65
V. Decolonisation, Human Rights, and the Case of Nicaragua in the 1970s
VI. ‘The Malvinas Were, Are, and Will Be Argentine’: The Falklands War and Beyond, 1982
Conclusion: A Short Rebirth and Long Decline
Quadrimestral
Resumos em português, inglês e espanhol
Editada e distribuída pela Editora Fundação Getulio Vargas
ISSN: 2178-1494
1. História 2. Historiografia 3. Periódicos 4. Ciências Sociais 5. Economia e Sociedade
I - : Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil da Fundação Getulio Vargas
CDD 981.005
CDU 981(051)
Semillas” Movement in Yucatan - Genner Llanes Ortíz
‘Underdeveloped Economists’: The Study of Economic
Development in Latin America in the 1950s – Stella Krepp
"Vivir Bien": A Discourse and Its Risks for Public Policies. The
Case of Child Labor and Exploitation in Indigenous
Communities of Bolivia – Ruben Dario Chambi
The Production of Meaning, Economy and Politics.
Intercultural Relations, Conflicts, Appropriations,
Articulations and Transformations – Daniel Mato
From the Political-Economic Drought to Collective and
Sustainable Water Management - Gustavo García López
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands: The MST and the
Workers’ Party in Brazil – Bruce Gilbert
Strategic Ethnicity, Nation, and (Neo)colonialism in Latin
America – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Race, Power, Indigenous Resistance and the Struggle for the
Establishment of Intercultural Education – Martina Tonet
Book Review: Climate change and colonialism in the Green
Economy – Sebastian Kratzer
centred on development. Latin American politicians generally framed development as “social progress,” arguing that political and civil rights were meaningless unless basic needs were met. Nonetheless, this decidedly materialist approach to human rights is complicated when
considering how, within months of each other in 1959, both the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights were founded. Looking at debates in the Organization of American States (OAS), this paper relates the fundamentally uneasy relationship between human rights and development in the inter-American system in the 1950s and early 60s.
Based on sources from U.S. and Brazilian archives, as well as ECLA and OAS (Organization of American States) documents, the paper relates how the ECLA shaped debates on economics first in inter-American relations and later in international fora such as the United Nations. The creation of the UNCTAD represented a major victory for Latin American governments, in particular as Raúl Prebisch would move from the ECLA to become its Secretary-General. By the late 1960s, with the advent of military dictatorships, Latin American economists grew disenchanted with global efforts, and economic thinking radicalised increasingly. Consequently, a new generation of economists, most prominently represented by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, took over the reins at the ECLA. In 1972, the UNCTAD III conference in Santiago de Chile, hosted by the government of Salvador Allende, seemed to herald a new era of Latin American engagement with economic questions. Yet, the same year, the institution faced an existential crisis, as under the Pinochet regime, the ECLA experienced a crackdown, with economists imprisoned, tortured or even disappearing. In sum, the ECLA provides a fascinating prism to not only trace the changes in development thinking, but to relate how engagement with the Global South waxed and waned in Latin America.