Condemned to Repetition

Condemned to Repetition
Author: Robert A. Pastor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780691077529

The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988.

Not Condemned To Repetition

Not Condemned To Repetition
Author: Robert Pastor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429978251

Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy Carter that mediated the first free election in Nicaragua's history. From his unique vantage point, and utilizing a wealth of original material from classified government documents and from personal interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan leaders, Pastor shows how Nicaragua and the United States were prisoners of a tragic history and how they finally escaped. This revised and updated edition covers the events of the democratic transition, and it extracts the lessons to be learned from the past.

Not Condemned To Repetition

Not Condemned To Repetition
Author: Robert Pastor
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2002-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813338107

During the last three decades, Nicaragua posed three of the most difficult challenges faced by U.S. foreign policy-makers in the third world: how to cope with a declining, repressive, but previously ?friendlyā€¯ dictator? how to relate to an anti-American revolutionary government? how to facilitate a democratic transition? The Nicaraguan challenge was to establish a democratic and autonomous government, with as much support and as little interference as possible from the great powers. This book demonstrates how an unproductive interaction led to both sides' worst nightmares.

Our Own Backyard

Our Own Backyard
Author: William M. LeoGrande
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2009-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0807898805

In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua and the outbreak of El Salvador's civil war in the late 1970s to the final regional peace settlements negotiated a decade later, he chronicles the dramatic struggles--in Washington and Central America--that shaped the region's destiny. For good or ill, LeoGrande argues, Central America's fate hinged on decisions that were subject to intense struggles among, and within, Congress, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House--decisions over which Central Americans themselves had little influence. Like the domestic turmoil unleashed by Vietnam, he says, the struggle over Central America was so divisive that it damaged the fabric of democratic politics at home. It inflamed the tug-of-war between Congress and the executive branch over control of foreign policy and ultimately led to the Iran-contra affair, the nation's most serious political crisis since Watergate.

Repetition

Repetition
Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 223
Release: 1988-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466807016

Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him. "Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by [Repetition]." - Publishers Weekly

Political Instability and American Foreign Policy

Political Instability and American Foreign Policy
Author: John D. Orme
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349103969

A study of post-war US policy towards countries which are politically unstable or in a pre-revolutionary situation. Orme argues that the "middle options" have played a prominent role in US policy and, flawed though they are, some of them will remain the best alternative in the future.

The Carter Presidency

The Carter Presidency
Author: John Dumbrell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719036170

Examines President Jimmy Carter's human rights policies, both at home and abroad, and tests the record of his presidency against the "competence and compassion" theme sounded by him in the 1976 campaign. Dumbrell argues that Carter was neither incompetent nor lacking in a compassionate vision.

Images and Intervention

Images and Intervention
Author: Martha L. Cottam
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1994-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822974630

Cottam explains the patterns of U.S. intervention in Latin America by focusing on the cognitive images that have dominated policy makers' world views, influenced the procession of information, and informed strategies and tactics. She employs a number of case studies of intervention and analyzes decision-making patterns from the early years of the cold war in Guatemala and Cuba to the post-cold-war policies in Panama and the war on drugs in Peru. Using two particular images-the enemy and the dependent-Cottam explores why U.S. policy makers have been predisposed to intervene in Latin America when they have perceived an enemy (the Soviet Union) interacting with a dependent (a Latin American country), and why these images led to perceptions that continued to dominate policy into the post-cold-war era.

Politics of the Gift

Politics of the Gift
Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748688277

Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences, right up to the present, Moore shows

Formulas of Repetition in Dante's Commedia

Formulas of Repetition in Dante's Commedia
Author: Lloyd Howard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Repetition in literature
ISBN: 9780773521926

Howard (Hispanic and Italian studies, U. of Victoria) analyzes recurrent linguistic patterns or formulas found throughout Dante's Commedia. When a formula found in more than one place in the text, Howard analyzes the context surrounding these linguistic signposts thereby drawing conclusions about the poem's meaning. Howard's focus is on making connections between formulas which are not in close proximity to each other and have thus remained largely hidden. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Services. c. Book News Inc.