| U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua Contributor(s): Solaun, Mauricio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803248989 ISBN-13: 9780803248984 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Central America - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 972.852 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As President Carter's ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977-1979, Mauricio Solaśn witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaśn outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 not only failed but helped impede the institutionalization of democracy there. Late in the 1970s, the United States took issue with the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Moral suasion, economic sanctions, and other peaceful instruments from Washington led to violent revolution in Nicaragua and bolstered a new dictatorial government. A U.S.-supported counterrevolution formed, and Solaśn argues that the United States attempts to this day to determine who rules Nicaragua. Solaśn explores the mechanisms that kept Somoza's poorly legitimized regime in power for decades, making it the most enduring Latin American authoritarian regime of the twentieth century. Solaśn argues that continual shifts in U.S. international policy have been made in response to previous policies that failed to produce U.S.- friendly international environments. His historical survey of these policy shifts provides a window on the working of U.S. diplomacy and lessons for future policy-making. Mauricio Solaśn is an international consultant and lecturer who taught sociology and Latin American studies at the University of Illinois. He is the author of several books, including Sinners and Heretics: The Politics of Military Intervention in Latin America. |
