| Sumario: | Philanthropy, Science and University, a book compiled by Juan Morales Martin, is reviewed to visit the deployment of academic diplomacy in Latin America. The work combines historical and sociological perspectives to investigate the formation of academic and institutional networks that were key to Latin American development. It features analyses of the impact of international philanthropies on the professionalization of the social sciences and the sustenance of academic elites that strove to generate democratic alternatives to the authoritarianism that plagued the region. The Ford and Rockefeller foundations stand out, linked to academic centers through various policies characterized by philanthropic domination.
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