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Central America on the Reagan Watch: Rhetoric and Reality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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This essay discusses the Central America policies of the Reagan administration, focusing on the evolution of what has been described as a “two-track” approach to the region. The essay disputes this characterization, describing the emergence of an unstable equilibrium between different policy objectives and their proponents, underlining important differences between official rhetoric and specific initiatives, and evaluating the outcomes of those initiatives. The discussion emphasizes the complexity of the domestic and international context of the crisis and of the policy arena, underlining the failure of the administration's attempt to impose its own unilateral solution.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 35 - 62
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1985
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