Dominican Intervention

Informationen zum Autor Abraham F. Lowenthal is professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct professor at Brown University. He was founding director of both the Inter-American Dialogue and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Latin American Program. Klappentext "The intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965 has inspired several books, and this one is clearly the best." -- Review of Politics. Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the DominicanRepublic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. In a new preface, Lowenthal discusses the Dominican intervention in its Cold War context and in comparative and theoretical perspective. As the issue of U.S. military action is raised anew -- from Iraq to Bosnia -- the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.

Product details

• Authors: Abraham F. Lowenthal, Abraham F. (Professor Emeritus) Lowenthal, Lowenthal Abraham F.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1995
• EAN: 9780801847554
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4755-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Dominican Republic, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Dominican Republic