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Foreword
ThisvolumerepresentsthelatestoneoftheBasicAmericanDocuments.Theseriesisthe
productofresearchcarriedoutbytheInstituteofAmericanStudiesandPolishDiaspora
andtheInstituteofPoliticalStudiesandInternationalRelationsoftheJagiellonian
University.Overthepastfewyearsthisserieshaspresentedimpressivecollectionsof
primarysourcesrelatedtoAmericanhistory,foreignpolicyandconstitutionallaw.1
InthisvolumeKarolDerwich,aPh.D.fromtheCenterforLatinAmericanStudiesof
theInstituteofAmericanStudiesandPolishDiaspora,presentsacollectionofprimary
sourcesrelatedtoU.S.relationswithLatinAmericanandCaribbeanregion.Thevolume,
organizedbychronologyandtheme,willbeespeciallyusefulforthosescholarsfocusing
onU.S.foreignpolicyinLatinAmericanandtheCaribbeanregion.
Theselectionoftextsanddocumentswillseektodemonstrateamoremodernand
complicatedhistory.Thereare,ofcourse,severaltextsdocumentingtheAmerican
dominationoverLatinAmericanandCaribbeanStates.Ofparticularnotearethose
outliningrecentdifferencesbetweentheUnitedStatesanditssouthernneighborsover
theanti-drugpolicyandattitudestowardeconomicdevelopment.TheworksofSimón
BolivarandJoseMartihaveprovidedeloquenttestimonyofhowAmericangovernments
havehistoricallysoughttodominateitssouthernneighbors.Mexico,Cubaandmostof
CentralAmericanandCaribbeanStateshaveespeciallypainfulmemoriesofAmerican
imperialism.
ButtherearealsosignicantdocumentsthatdemonstratehowtheUnitedStatesand
LatinAmericanandCaribbeanStateshaveestablishedsignicantformsofregional
cooperation.Inthepasttheseagreementshavehelpedtoeaseotherwiseconictingsets
ofinterests,valuesandobjectives.ThePan-Americanmovementinthe1920sand1930s
isperhapsthebestexampleofthiscooperationthatatthetimewashistoricallyunique
ininternationalaffairs.
1PawełLaidler,BasicCasesinU.S.ConstitutionalLaw:TheSeparationofPowers,Kraków:
WydawnictwoUniwersytetuJagiellońskiego,2005;ŁukaszWordliczek,U.S.ForeignPolicy:
ProcedureandSubstance,Kraków:WydawnictwoUniwersytetuJagiellońskiego,2005;Robert
Kłosowicz,BasicCasesinU.S.History:FortheColoniestotheEndoftheNineteethCentury,Kraków:
WydawnictwoUniwersytetuJagiellońskiego,2006;PawełLaidler,BasiccasesinU.S.constitutional
law:rightsandliberties,Kraków:WydawnictwoUniwersytetuJagiellońskiego,2009