′...This welcome book, which helps to clarify that emerging fact, is edited by the president of the Latin American Studies Association who is also a professor at Harvard...Each essay has useful bibliographic information to guide further reading. The background material included here will be valuable for understanding the context of the essays and should make this a lasting contribution.′ -- Choice, October 1982
′The book is required reading for those interested in the inter-American System.′ -- American Political Science Review, Vol 77 No 2, June 1983