Introduction: The interplay between domestic affairs and foreign relations -- Domestic origins of an international conflict -- The roots of the agrarian dispute -- El asalto a las tierras y la huelga de los sentados: how local agency shaped agrarian reform in the Mexicali Valley -- The expropriation of American-owned land in Baja California: political, economic, social, and cultural factors -- Domestic politics and the expropriation of American-owned land in the Yaqui Valley -- The Sonoran reparto: where domestic and international forces meet -- Diplomatic resolution of an international conflict -- The end of U.S. intervention in Mexico: the Roosevelt administration accommodates Mexico City -- Diplomatic weapons of the weak: Cárdenas's administration outmaneuvers Washington -- The 1941 global settlement: the end of the agrarian dispute and the start of a new era in U.S.-Mexican relations -- Conclusion: moving away from Balkanized history.