pIn emKissinger and Latin Americaem, Stephen G. Rabe analyzes US policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Rabe also offers a way of adding to and challenging the prevailing historiography on one of the most preeminent policymakers in the history of US foreign relations. Scholarly studies on Henry Kissinger and his policies between 1969 and 1977 have tended to survey Kissinger's approach to the world, with an emphasis on initiatives toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and the struggle to extricate the United States from the Vietnam conflict. emKissinger and Latin Americaem offers something new, analyzing US policies toward a distinct region of the world, during Kissinger's career as national security advisor and secretary of state.ppRabe further challenges the n