New Nicaragua : Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States

Hendrix, Steven E.

ISBN 10: 0313379580 / ISBN 13: 9780313379581

Published by Praeger, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Nicaragua : Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States
• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313379580
• ISBN 13: 9780313379581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An insider's look at the changes going on in Nicaragua―the internal political maneuvering of Daniel Ortega, the responses by the United States, and the success of recent American pro-democracy civil society efforts there.

At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winning author Steven Hendrix was on the ground in Nicaragua working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States is Hendrix's eyewitness account of the changes going on there.

What Hendrix found in the new Nicaragua is a decidedly mixed bag: a presidential campaign marked by dirty tricks and backroom deals, yet an election held under the first neutral comprehensive observation ever in the developing world; an overt effort to appease the United States even while attempting to undermine U.S. policy in the region. Yet despite this, Hendrix saw U.S. pro-democracy, civil society efforts succeed, disproving the many skeptics who doubt that nation-building is even possible.

About the Author

Steven E. Hendrix is a crisis, stabilization and governance officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development and a Fellow with the International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL. He is an attorney licensed in Bolivia, Guatemala and the United States.