Mark Atwood Lawrence

About The Author

Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history and distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.

Books by Mark Atwood Lawrence

Beyond the Eagle's Shadow

New Histories of Latin America's Cold War

Edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence and Julio E. Moreno
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection o...
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