A Faustian Bargain
U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-0-367-16617-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-16617-5 (9780367166175)
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William I. Robinson
A Faustian Bargain
U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era
Book
05/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
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William I. Robinson
A Faustian Bargain
U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era
E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
William I. Robinson
A Faustian Bargain
U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era
E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Person
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.
Content
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