Author: Mauricio Sola£n
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
As President Carter?s ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977?1979, Mauricio Sola£n witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Sola£n outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 not only failed but helped impede the institutionalization of democracy there. Late in the 1970s, the United States took issue with the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Moral suasion, economic sanctions, and other peaceful instruments from Washington led to violent revolution in Nicaragua and bolstered a new dictatorial government. A U.S.-supported counterrevolution formed, and Sola£n argues that the United States attempts to this day to determine who rules Nicaragua. Sola£n explores the mechanisms that kept Somoza?s poorly legitimized regime in power for decades, making it the most enduring Latin American authoritarian regime of the twentieth century. Sola£n argues that continual shifts in U.S. international policy have been made in response to previous policies that failed to produce U.S.- friendly international environments. His historical survey of these policy shifts provides a window on the working of U.S. diplomacy and lessons for future policy-making.
U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua
Author: Mauricio Sola£n
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
As President Carter?s ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977?1979, Mauricio Sola£n witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Sola£n outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 not only failed but helped impede the institutionalization of democracy there. Late in the 1970s, the United States took issue with the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Moral suasion, economic sanctions, and other peaceful instruments from Washington led to violent revolution in Nicaragua and bolstered a new dictatorial government. A U.S.-supported counterrevolution formed, and Sola£n argues that the United States attempts to this day to determine who rules Nicaragua. Sola£n explores the mechanisms that kept Somoza?s poorly legitimized regime in power for decades, making it the most enduring Latin American authoritarian regime of the twentieth century. Sola£n argues that continual shifts in U.S. international policy have been made in response to previous policies that failed to produce U.S.- friendly international environments. His historical survey of these policy shifts provides a window on the working of U.S. diplomacy and lessons for future policy-making.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
As President Carter?s ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977?1979, Mauricio Sola£n witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Sola£n outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 not only failed but helped impede the institutionalization of democracy there. Late in the 1970s, the United States took issue with the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Moral suasion, economic sanctions, and other peaceful instruments from Washington led to violent revolution in Nicaragua and bolstered a new dictatorial government. A U.S.-supported counterrevolution formed, and Sola£n argues that the United States attempts to this day to determine who rules Nicaragua. Sola£n explores the mechanisms that kept Somoza?s poorly legitimized regime in power for decades, making it the most enduring Latin American authoritarian regime of the twentieth century. Sola£n argues that continual shifts in U.S. international policy have been made in response to previous policies that failed to produce U.S.- friendly international environments. His historical survey of these policy shifts provides a window on the working of U.S. diplomacy and lessons for future policy-making.
U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas
Author: Morris H. Morley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This study of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies reveals the fundamental importance Washington placed on preserving state institutions in Latin America while adopting a much more flexible approach regarding support for elected regimes or dictatorial rulers. The Carter White House decision to dump a longstanding ally, Somoza, and support a regime change was triggered by the appearance of a mass-based social movement led by radical nationalist guerrillas posing a challenge to both the dictatorial regime and, more importantly, the state structure that underpinned it. This book is based on the extensive use of personal interviews and recently declassified U.S. government documents. Among its distinctive features is the emphasis on the pivotal role Washington played in contributing to the long-term survival of the Somoza dictatorship. It is the first detailed study, based on original research, of Nixon and Ford policy toward Nicaragua, and it contains the most detailed discussion of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua during the early period of Sandinista rule.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This study of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies reveals the fundamental importance Washington placed on preserving state institutions in Latin America while adopting a much more flexible approach regarding support for elected regimes or dictatorial rulers. The Carter White House decision to dump a longstanding ally, Somoza, and support a regime change was triggered by the appearance of a mass-based social movement led by radical nationalist guerrillas posing a challenge to both the dictatorial regime and, more importantly, the state structure that underpinned it. This book is based on the extensive use of personal interviews and recently declassified U.S. government documents. Among its distinctive features is the emphasis on the pivotal role Washington played in contributing to the long-term survival of the Somoza dictatorship. It is the first detailed study, based on original research, of Nixon and Ford policy toward Nicaragua, and it contains the most detailed discussion of U.S. policy toward Nicaragua during the early period of Sandinista rule.
Condemned to Repetition
Author: Robert A. Pastor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691077529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691077529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988.
Nicaragua
Author: Dianna Melrose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Debt.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Debt.
Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion
Author: Héctor Perla (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711389X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book traces the process through which Nicaraguans defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711389X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book traces the process through which Nicaraguans defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation.
Banana Diplomacy
Author: Roy Gutman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Washington's War on Nicaragua
Author: Holly Sklar
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.
A Faustian Bargain
Author: William I Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A penetrating analysis of the controversial U.S. role in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections-the most closely monitored in history-this book exposes the intervention in the electoral process of a sovereign nation by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, and private U.S.-based organizations. Robins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A penetrating analysis of the controversial U.S. role in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections-the most closely monitored in history-this book exposes the intervention in the electoral process of a sovereign nation by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, and private U.S.-based organizations. Robins
United States Policy Toward Nicaragua
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description