This book provides a comparative analysis of 30 American interventions into Third World countries. An historical approach is used to place the featured cases into a more general history of American Diplomacy. The author uses his assessments to prove that U.S. foreign policy has been driven by the goal of being the ultimate power in the global capitalist economic system. The author makes his work unique by giving a critical view of America's place in the world during an anticipated time of war and raised patriotism. He provides a scholarly look at U.S. diplomacy leading up to the era of "the War on Terror." Sullivan explains how over the past 50 years the U.S. has come to succeed Europe as ruler of the global economic system. The "political systems" which have been promoted by the U.S. to preserve worldwide capitalism range from one-party rule to monarchies and recurring civil war. The interventions discussed have proved to be short-term successes for U.S. policy, but more often tragic for the local societies affected. Sullivan draws on his 1996 release Comparing State Polities to create a number of tables that place U.S. involvement into geographic and hierarchic perspective. The reader is ultimately provided with a provocative thesis that challenges traditional interpretations of America's role in the world. This book will be an asset to any undergraduate college student taking classes in political science or history. It will also appeal to a general audience.

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United States foreign policy on the periphery

Sullivan, Michael J.

Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated

Praeger ; Harcourt Education

Praeger; Bloomsbury

ABC-CLIO, LLC

United States, United States of America

Westport, Conn, Connecticut, 2004

Westport, Conn., Oxford, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction 12
Introduction Bibliography 24
Part I: The Early Years: Embracing a New Role, 1945–60 26
Chapter 1: From World War II to the Cold War: The Truman Years, 1945–52 28
Introduction to the European Region 29
CASE 1. Greece, 1947–49 30
CASE 2. Italy, 1948 34
CASE 3. Philippines, 1946–53 38
Introduction to the East Asian Region 41
Bibliography 43
Chapter 2: The Expanding Empire under Eisenhower, 1953–60 48
Introduction to the Middle East 49
CASE 4. Iran, 1953 50
Introduction to the Western Hemisphere 53
CASE 5. Guatemala, 1954 54
CASE 6. Lebanon, 1958 58
Introduction to the Southeast Asia Subregion: Indochina-I 63
Bibliography 66
Part II: The Extremist Years, 1961–76 72
Chapter 3: The Kennedy-Johnson Idealist Extensions, 1961–68 74
Introduction to the African Region 75
CASE 7. Congo, 1961–65 75
CASE 8. Cuba, 1961 79
CASE 9. British Guiana, 1961–66 83
Indochina-II 86
CASE 10. Laos, 1961–73 87
CASE 11. South Vietnam, 1961–65 90
CASE 12. Brazil, 1964 95
CASE 13. Dominican Republic, 1961–66 98
CASE 14. Indonesia, 1965–66 102
Postscript: Greece, 1967–74 107
Bibliography 107
Chapter 4: The Nixon-Ford Realist Consolidations, 1969–76 116
CASE 15. Cambodia, 1970 118
CASE 16. Kurdistan, 1971–75 122
CASE 17. Chile, 1973 124
CASE 18. Angola, 1975 127
CASE 19. Australia, 1975 131
CASE 20. East Timor, 1975 133
Bibliography 135
Part III: The Four-Year Aberration, 1977–80 142
Chapter 5: Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Pause, 1977–80 143
Bibliography 148
Part IV: Transition to the Contemporary Era, 1981–2000 150
Chapter 6: Ronald Reagan: The Last Cold Warrior, 1981–88 152
CASE 21. El Salvador, 1979–91 153
CASE 22. Nicaragua, 1981–88 156
CASE 23. Grenada, 1983 159
CASE 24. Libya, 1981–86 161
CASE 25. Afghanistan, 1981–88 164
Bibliography 168
Chapter 7: The Post–Cold War Era: Bush, Clinton, and the Search for New Themes, 1989–2000 174
CASE 26. Panama, 1989 176
CASE 27. Iraq, 1991 178
CASE 28. Somalia, 1992–94 182
CASE 29. Haiti, 1994 184
CASE 30. Yugoslavia, 1995 and 1999 188
Bibliography 192
Conclusion 198
Index 200

<p>This book provides a comparative analysis of 30 American interventions into Third World countries. An historical approach is used to place the featured cases into a more general history of American Diplomacy. The author uses his assessments to prove that U.S. foreign policy has been driven by the goal of being the ultimate power in the global capitalist economic system. The author makes his work unique by giving a critical view of America's place in the world during an anticipated time of war and raised patriotism. He provides a scholarly look at U.S. diplomacy leading up to the era of the War on Terror.</p><p>Sullivan explains how over the past 50 years the U.S. has come to succeed Europe as ruler of the global economic system. The political systems which have been promoted by the U.S. to preserve worldwide capitalism range from one-party rule to monarchies and recurring civil war. The interventions discussed have proved to be short-term successes for U.S. policy, but more often tragic for the local societies affected. Sullivan draws on his 1996 release <i>Comparing State Polities</i> to create a number of tables that place U.S. involvement into geographic and hierarchic perspective. The reader is ultimately provided with a provocative thesis that challenges traditional interpretations of America's role in the world. This book will be an asset to any undergraduate college student taking classes in political science or history. It will also appeal to a general audience.</p>

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