Book Reviews : Estadoes Unidos Nos Mira. By ALBERTO CIRIA. (Buenos Aires: Ediciones La Bastilla, 1973. Pp. 258.)

• Author: Ronald H. Chilcote
• Published date: 01 December 1974
• Date: 01 December 1974
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591297402700440
• Subject Matter: Articles

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efforts in the developing nations as new style colonial exploitation by a European
power, political domination, curbing national liberation and, not the least impor-
tant, isolating while encircling China. Although both Soviet and Chinese aid to
developing nations falls far below comparable aid from the west, grants form about
20 percent of total Chinese aid, compared to Soviet grants amounting only to about
5 percent of their overall aid. Additionally, most Chinese long-term loans are in-
terest free, while Soviet loans charge a 2.5 percent interest rate. Even so, Prybyla
concludes that the Sino-Soviet split has had virtually no effect on Soviet and
Chinese aid programs, many of which instead of competing with one another, are
rather complementary.
In general, the book’s conclusions point up the profitable learning experience
acquired by Soviet policy-makers over the past two decades in attempting to work
out a successful foreign policy toward developing nations.
RICHARD C. GRIPP
San Diego State University
Estadoes Unidos Nos Mira. By ALBERTO CIRIA. (Buenos Aires: Ediciones La
Bastilla, 1973. Pp. 258.)
The cover of Alberto Ciria’s new book appropriately depicts Uncle Sam look-
ing through binoculars at Latin America. This book analyzes the views of North
Americans on Argentina, and it is effectively presented by an Argentine political
scientist and author of important studies on Peronism. This work is the culmina-
tion of a project conceived in 1966 when Ciria first came to the University of
California, Riverside.
This book is must reading for foreign students and scholars. Ciria has fol-
lowed through with his original conception, exhaustively reviewing the relevant
literature on Argentina, and intertwining his critique in an interpretative histori-
ography of the area. As such he exposes superficiality, conjecture, and myth which
runs rampant through the North American writings. For the most part these writ-
ings are by historians and social scientists...