How leaders reason : US intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America
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How leaders reason : US intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America
Basil Blackwell, 1990
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Bibliography: p309-320
Includes index
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Description
History is full of instances in which piolitical leaders have looked to resolve problems by resorting to solutions used in earlier times: thus, for instance, the sending of US troops into Nicaragua to topple the newly established Sandanista regime was affected by the lessons of Vietnam. Analogies can be rishky guides to political decision-making, but they are nonetheless the means most commonly used for defining problems which influence the way alternatives are abstracted and choices made. In this study Hybel presents and analogical theory of foreign policy-making by using as case studies the experience of US intervention in the Carribbean and Latin America, including such arena as Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua and Grenada. Both theoretically and empirically, the book offers a major contribution to the study and understanding of foreign policy.
Table of Contents
- The nature of the puzzle
- the calculation of interests and the definition of problems
- Guatemala - the designing of the future
- Cuba - the application of the wrong lesson?
- the Dominican Republic - the future must not resemble the past
- the interplay between interests, beliefs and cognitive processes
- Peru and Chile - does the past have more than one pattern?
- Nicaragua and Grenada - the past has only one future
- continuity and change in US policy of intervention.
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