A Faustian Bargain: U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era
Autor William I. Robinsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367016302
ISBN-10: 0367016303
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 147 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367016303
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 147 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction -- The New Intervention -- Nicaragua from Carter to Reagan to Bush -- Creating a Political Opposition -- Consolidating a "Civic Opposition Front" -- The International Network -- The CIA, Public Relations, Secret Relations, and Multiple Money Pots -- The Contras and the Economy: The Making of a Faustian Bargain -- The Future: "Low-Intensity" Democracies? -- Postscript -- Afterword -- Afterword -- Final Note -- Documents -- Chronology
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
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.