Archive - January 30, 2022

  The Peace Corps and Latin America: In the Last Mile of U.S. Foreign Policy by Thomas J. Nisley (Dominican Republic 1989-91); Ph.D./University of Florida; professor of International Relations and Latin American Studies at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. Lexington Books, 2018 158 pages $95.00 (hardcover), $39.99 (paperback), $37.99 (Kindle) Reviewed by John Chromy (India 1963-65) • Reading Dr. Nisley’s book gives the reader a sense of his love and admiration for the Peace Corps, its enormous impact on his own life and somewhat more limited impact on the people in the community in which he served. With that in mind he sets off to examine the Peace Corps’ role in U.S. Foreign Policy, and specifically whether the Peace Corps “makes a difference” in U.S. Foreign Policy. Like it or not, Dr. Nisley points out that the Peace Corps was conceived as an extension of the U.S. foreign policy, and launched in a period of . . .