Faustian Bargain

U.s. Intervention In The Nicaraguan Elections And American Foreign Policy In The Post-cold War Era

AvWilliam I Robinson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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. Robins

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-01
Mått:147 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:750 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367016302

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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