Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the DominicanRepublic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis, Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official, liberal, and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead, he explains it as the product of fundamental premises, of decision-making procedures, and of bureaucratic politics. In a new preface, Lowenthal discusses the Dominican intervention in its Cold War context and in comparative and theoretical perspective. As the issue of U.S. military action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.
- ISBN10 0674214803
- ISBN13 9780674214804
- Publish Date 1 January 1972
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 260
- Language English