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Mark Falcoff’s Small Countries, Large Issues: Studies in U.S.-Latin American Asymmetries (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 Seventeenth St., Washington, D.C. 20036; $5.95) is a collection of interesting and well-written essays by a resident fellow at the AEI’s Center for Hemispheric Studies and former senior consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Many of the essays, as the author notes, have appeared in academic journals during the past ten years, but have “nonetheless achieved a certain notoriety that justifies their re-publication.” However, a long article called “Chile: External Forces and the Overthrow of Allende,” which is part of a longer work scheduled for publication this year, is published here for the first time.

“In the fiction of international law,” Falcoff remarks in his preface,

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Mark Falcoff’s Small Countries, Large Issues: Studies in U.S.-Latin American Asymmetries (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 Seventeenth St., Washington, D.C. 20036; $5.95) is a collection of interesting and well-written essays by a resident fellow at the AEI’s Center for Hemispheric Studies and former senior consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Many of the essays, as the author notes, have appeared in academic journals during the past ten years, but have “nonetheless achieved a certain notoriety that justifies their re-publication.” However, a long article called “Chile: External Forces and the Overthrow of Allende,” which is part of a longer work scheduled for publication this year, is published here for the first time.

“In the fiction of international law,” Falcoff remarks in his preface,