The Dominican Intervention

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4755-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowenthal, Abraham F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Lowenthal, Abraham F.
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.

Abraham F. Lowenthal directs the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. His books include Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America in the 1990s, revised edition.