Faustian Bargain

U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvWilliam I Robinson

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This book presents a penetrating analysis of the controversial U.S. intervention in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections. It examines the implications of an undertaking for U.S. foreign policy and for social change in the Third World in the post-cold war era.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-02
Mått139 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor310
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367166175

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William I. Robinson, a former investigative journalist, is a research associate at the Center for International Studies in Managua and a news analyst for the Latin America Data Base at the University of New Mexico, He is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American studies at the University of New Mexico. Robinson is coauthor, with Kent Norsworthy, of David and Goliath: The U.S. War Against Nicaragua, which won the 1987 Gustavus Myers Book Award for outstanding scholarship in the study of human rights and intolerance in the United States.

Introduction: The International Significance of Nicaragua 1. The New Intervention 2. Nicaragua from Carter to Reagan to Bush 3. Creating a Political Opposition 4. Consolidating a "Civic Opposition Front" 5. The International Network 6. The CIA, Public Relations, Secret Relations, and Multiple Money Pots 7. The Contras and the Economy: The Making of a Faustian Bargain 8. The Future: "Low-Intensity" Democracies? 9. Postscript: Postelectoral U.S. Intervention