In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years - Hardcover

Carothers, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520073193 ISBN 13: 9780520073197

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive, even-handed examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews with United States officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer, Carothers sheds new light on the much-discussed U.S. involvements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, and turns up varied and often unexpected findings in less-studied countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Chile.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Carothers, an attorney in Washington, D.C., was recently an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a contributor to Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America (1991).

From the Back Cover

"The most balanced and sophisticated account currently available of U.S. policy toward Latin America in the 1980s, and of the complexities, tensions and difficulties inherent in making democratization in a foreign policy objective. A 'must read.'"―Ambassador Viron P. Vaky, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

From the Inside Flap

"The most balanced and sophisticated account currently available of U.S. policy toward Latin America in the 1980s, and of the complexities, tensions and difficulties inherent in making democratization in a foreign policy objective. A 'must read.'"—Ambassador Viron P. Vaky, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520073193
• ISBN 13: 9780520073197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 309