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The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America, 1910-1985 - Couverture souple

Blasier, Cole

 
9780822953722: The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America, 1910-1985
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822953722 ISBN 13 : 9780822953722
Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985

Synopsis

In the first edition of The Hovering Giant, Cole Blasier analyzed U.S. response to revolutions in Latin America from Madero in Mexico to Allende in Chile. He explained why U.S. leaders sponsored paramilitary units to overthrow revolutionary governments in Guatemala and Cuba and compromised their own differences with revolutionary governments in Mexico and Bolivia. The protection of private U.S. interests was part of the explanation, but Blasier gave greater emphasis to rivalry with Germany or the Soviet Union.
Now in this revised edition, Blasier also examines the responses of the Carter and Reagan administrations to the Grenadian and Nicaraguan revolutions and the revolt in El Salvador. He also brings up to date the interpretation of U.S.-Cuban relations.
Blasier stresses U.S. defense of its preeminent position in the Caribean Basin, as well as rivalry with the Soviet Union, to explain these later U.S. responses. Seemingly unaware of historical experience, Washington followed patterns in Central America and Grenada similar to earlier patterns in Guatemala, Cuba, and Chile even though the latter had adverse effects on U.S. security and economic interests.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cole Blasier, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of The Giant's Rival: The USSR and Latin America. Blasier studied or taught at Universities in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico and served as a career foreign service officer in Belgrade, Bonn, Moscow, and Washington. Because of long first-hand experience in official Washington and Moscow and extensive residence in Latin America, Blasier is uniquely qualified to appraise this complex arena of conflict.

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Éditeur
University of Pittsburgh Press
Date d'édition
1985
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822953722
ISBN 13 
9780822953722
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
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