Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Permanent and transitory interests in U.S. foreign policy
- 2 Washington and the Somoza dynasty: From consolidation to crisis of a client dictatorship
- 3 Supporting Somoza: Substance and symbol in American policy during the Nixon-Ford era
- 4 The Carter administration and Nicaragua: Human rights and the politics of accommodation
- 5 The Carter administration and Nicaragua: Mediation and the politics of frustration
- 6 Washington ruptures a historic relationship: Dumping the dictator to save the state
- 7 The Carter administration and revolutionary Nicaragua: Containing Sandinista power
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Permanent and transitory interests in U.S. foreign policy
- 2 Washington and the Somoza dynasty: From consolidation to crisis of a client dictatorship
- 3 Supporting Somoza: Substance and symbol in American policy during the Nixon-Ford era
- 4 The Carter administration and Nicaragua: Human rights and the politics of accommodation
- 5 The Carter administration and Nicaragua: Mediation and the politics of frustration
- 6 Washington ruptures a historic relationship: Dumping the dictator to save the state
- 7 The Carter administration and revolutionary Nicaragua: Containing Sandinista power
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Washington, Somoza and the SandinistasStage and Regime in US Policy toward Nicaragua 1969–1981, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994