Under the Big Stick

Under the Big Stick
Author: Karl Bermann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Few people in the US are aware that we have intervened more persistently in Nicaragua than in any other country in the hemisphere except Mexico and Cuba, whose geographic proximity to the United States has historically put them in a special category. Today's confrontation between the US and Nicaragua did not begin in 1979; it is but the latest chapter in a story that began more than 130 years ago. - p. [vii].

Nicaragua’s Conservative Republic, 1858–93

Nicaragua’s Conservative Republic, 1858–93
Author: Arturo J. Cruz, Jr
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403919437

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Arturo J.Cruz, Jr argues that political learning, trust-building, and institutional innovation by political elites broke Nicaragua's post-colonial cycle of anarchy and petty despotism, leaving in its place an increasingly inclusive oligarchic democracy that made possible state-led economic development for the next thirty years. Subsequent economic development gave rise to new social groups and localist power centres that remained politically disparate, and in turn forged an outsiders' coalition to bring down the Republic.

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

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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 ?friendly” 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.

Condemned to Repetition

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

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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.