mario rapoport is Head Researcher in the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, and Associate Professor of Economic History and History of International Relations in the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. He obtained his doctorate in history at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris-I) in 1975 and is the author of Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y las clases dirigentes argentinas, 1940-1945 (1981), and other books and articles on topics of contemporary Argentine history, including a documentary anthology to be published shortly on Argentine foreign policy during World War II. As a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center he has been working this year on the triangular relations between Argentina, the United States, and the Soviet Union in the last few decades.
stanley e. hilton (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1969) is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of several books, including Brazil and the Great Powers, 1930-1939 (1975), Hitler’s Secret War in South America, 1939-1945 (1981), and A Guerra Civil Brasileira: História da Revolução Constitucionalista de1932 (1982), and numerous articles focusing primarily on modern Brazilian history. He is currently finishing a book dealing with Brazil’s response to the Soviet challenge since 1917 and is also preparing a political biography of Oswaldo Aranha.
richard v. salisbury is Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1969. A specialist in twentieth-century Central America, his publications include a monograph Costa Rica y el Istmo, 1900-1934 (1984) and previous articles in The Americas, Prologue, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and HAHR.
