Author: Philip W. Travis
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498537189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment and sought to “roll-back” the gains of communism. However, the Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that often violated traditional norms of international law and recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the United States sought to respond to an escalation of global terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s transformed how and when the United States applied force in the world.
Reagan's War on Terrorism in Nicaragua
Author: Philip W. Travis
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498537189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment and sought to “roll-back” the gains of communism. However, the Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that often violated traditional norms of international law and recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the United States sought to respond to an escalation of global terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s transformed how and when the United States applied force in the world.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498537189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment and sought to “roll-back” the gains of communism. However, the Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that often violated traditional norms of international law and recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the United States sought to respond to an escalation of global terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s transformed how and when the United States applied force in the world.
At War in Nicaragua
Author: E. Bradford Burns
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060550745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060550745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
On Trial
Author: Marlene Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862325381
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862325381
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Contra Terror in Nicaragua
Author: Reed Brody
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896083127
Category : Counterrevolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Exposes the policies of torture, murder, and wanton violence employed by the forces Reagan described as the moral equivalents of our Founding Fathers.
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896083127
Category : Counterrevolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Exposes the policies of torture, murder, and wanton violence employed by the forces Reagan described as the moral equivalents of our Founding Fathers.
On Trial
Author: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal
Publisher: San Francisco : Synthesis Publications
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: San Francisco : Synthesis Publications
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Reagan Versus The Sandinistas
Author: Thomas W Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000309061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The product of research and investigation by a team of sixteen authors, Reagan versus the Sandinistas is the most comprehensive and current study to date of the Reagan administration's mounting campaign to reverse the Sandinista revolution. The authors thoroughly examine all major aspects of Reagan's "low-intensity war," from the U.S. government's attempts at economic destabilization to direct CIA sabotage and the sponsorship of the contras or freedom fighters. They also explore less-public tactics such as electronic penetration, behind-the-scenes manipulation of religious and ethnic tensions, and harassment of U.S. Nicaraguan specialists and "fellow travelers." The book concludes with a consideration of the impact of these activities and their implications for international law, U.S. interests, U.S. polity, and Nicaragua itself. Reagan versus the Sandinistas is designed not only for courses on Latin America, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations, but also for students, scholars, and others interested in understanding one of the most massive, complex efforts—short of direct intervention—organized by the United States to overthrow the government of another country.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000309061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The product of research and investigation by a team of sixteen authors, Reagan versus the Sandinistas is the most comprehensive and current study to date of the Reagan administration's mounting campaign to reverse the Sandinista revolution. The authors thoroughly examine all major aspects of Reagan's "low-intensity war," from the U.S. government's attempts at economic destabilization to direct CIA sabotage and the sponsorship of the contras or freedom fighters. They also explore less-public tactics such as electronic penetration, behind-the-scenes manipulation of religious and ethnic tensions, and harassment of U.S. Nicaraguan specialists and "fellow travelers." The book concludes with a consideration of the impact of these activities and their implications for international law, U.S. interests, U.S. polity, and Nicaragua itself. Reagan versus the Sandinistas is designed not only for courses on Latin America, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations, but also for students, scholars, and others interested in understanding one of the most massive, complex efforts—short of direct intervention—organized by the United States to overthrow the government of another country.
Washington's War on Nicaragua
Author: Holly Sklar
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.
Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention
Author: Peter Kornbluh
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
On Trial
Author: Marlene Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862325374
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862325374
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Out of Control
Author: Leslie Cockburn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780747500667
Category : Counterrevolutionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
For the last two years, the author has been investigating the secret funding of the Contras by the White House. Here, she identifies the network of National Security Council staff (led by Colonel Oliver North), CIA operatives and ex-agents who set up this illegal support system, after the passage of the Boland Amendment in October 1984 made it illegal for the US government to give direct and indirect aid to the Contras.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780747500667
Category : Counterrevolutionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
For the last two years, the author has been investigating the secret funding of the Contras by the White House. Here, she identifies the network of National Security Council staff (led by Colonel Oliver North), CIA operatives and ex-agents who set up this illegal support system, after the passage of the Boland Amendment in October 1984 made it illegal for the US government to give direct and indirect aid to the Contras.