U. S. Ends and Means in Central America: A Debate - Softcover

Van Den Haag, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306428571 ISBN 13: 9780306428579

Publisher: Springer, 1988

Synopsis

Identifies U.S. interests in Central America, debates the advisability of funding the Contras, and suggests alternative U.S. policies

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From Publishers Weekly:

Farer advocates negotiated neutralization in Nicaragua, arguing that the Reagan administration, in its attempts to find military solutions in Central America, has "unintentionally demonstrated the difference between a ruthless and a wise diplomacy." Van den Haag contends that international law is a delusion, that support for the contras is in the national interest and argues that Farer is too receptive to Sandinista propaganda, guilty of using overblown rhetoric and naive as well. Farer's shocked initial reaction is to quote Voltaire: "When facts and reason fail, turn to ridicule." Van den Haag, unchastened, continues to lay on the ridicule. Despite the one-sided acrimony, the debaters succeed admirably in delineating the issues, dilemmas and options attendant upon U.S. policy in Central America (particularly Nicaragua). Farer is a law professor at the American University, Van den Haag, a professor of jurisprudence at Fordham.
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From Library Journal:

This book is narrower than the title indicates. When the authors ( The Story of Physics ) say "science," they usually mean "physics." Most of the book expounds classical physics from Newton to 1900, but it also covers relativity theory and the beginnings of quantum theory. Ostensibly aimed at broadening the intellectual background of intelligent nonscientists, this is a dry and fairly pedestrian reworking of standard textbook fare. Most lay readers are likely to give up before finishing the portion in which the mathematical apparatus is wheeled ponderously into place. Perhaps most useful as collateral reading for students of elementary college physics; recomended chiefly for academic libraries. Jack W. Weigel, Univ. Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
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About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0306428571
• ISBN 13: 9780306428579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253