| Description |
ix, 351 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace." |
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Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overview: -- Can the cycle be broken? / Robert S. Leiken -- Legacies and Contexts: -- 1. "Obedezco pero no cumplo" ("I obey but I do not comply") / Christopher Dickey -- 2. The burdens of the past / Walter LaFeber -- 3. Praetorians or patriots: the Central American military / Richard Millett -- Socialism and Sovietism: -- 4. The origins of Sandinista foreign policy / Arturo Cruz Sequiera -- 5. The Salvadoran left / robert S. Leiken -- 6. The Soviets and Central America / Morris Rothenberg -- Economic and Military Realities: -- 7. The cost of alternative U.S. policies toward El Salvador 1984-1989 / Theodore Moran -- 8. Military threats, actual and potential / Joseph Cirincione and Leslie Hunter -- 9. Far from hopeless: an economic program for post-war Central America -- 10. Feet people / Leonel Gomez -- The Policy Process: -- 11. Reagan's Central American policy: an isthmus restored / Viron Vaky -- 12. At the root of the problem: conceptual failures in U.S.-Central American relations / Howard J. Wiarda -- 13. At sea in Central America: Can we negotiate our way to shore? / Tom J. Farer -- 14. Reagan administration policymaking and Central America / Barry Rubin -- 15. The elusive consensus: Congress and Central America / I. M. Destler |
| Subject |
Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-
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| Added Author |
Leiken, Robert S., 1939-2017
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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| ISBN |
008030950X |
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9780080309507 |
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