Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas - Stage and Regime in Us Policy Toward Nicaragua 1969-1981

Zusammenfassung Based on personal interviews and declassified US government documents! this book! first published in 1994! studies US policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon! Ford! and Carter presidencies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: permament and transitory interests in US foreign policy; 2. Washington and the Somoza dynasty: from consolidation to crisis of a client dictatorship; 3. Supporting Somoza: substance and symbol in American policy during the Nixon-Ford era; 4. The Carter administration and Nicaragua: human rights and the politics of accommodation; 5. The Carter administration and Nicaragua: mediation and the politics of frustration; 6. Washington ruptures an historic relationship: dumping the dictator to save the state; 7. The Carter administration and revolutionary Nicaragua: containing Sandinista power; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Morris H. Morley, Morris H. (Macquarie University Morley, Morley Morris H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521523356
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52335-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Nicaragua, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General