Latin American Studies in Europe

Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, Latin American studies in Europe, Pittsburgh: Center for Latin American Studies, 1980.

Reviewed in the Revista de Historia de América © 1982.

From the introduction:

The first part of the report provides a guide to, or country reports on, close to 100 Latin American studies programs in Europe. About half of these are major programs and are fully described in the main body of each country report, while the other half are considered minor programs for which only brief information is provided in the report under “others”.
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In the second part of this report the major Latin American studies programs in Europe described herein are contrasted and analyzed in various aspects: the timing of their inception; the motivations (political, economical, cultural) for their creation; and the principal initiator of such programs (the government, business corporations, universities, foundations). This is followed by an evaluation and ranking of the programs and countries based on six criteria extracted from the information provided in the ten standardized items supplied in the country reports. The second part of the report ends with a discussion of what we can learn from the European experience.