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- 2008003216 alternative "A la sombra de los Estados Unidos. English".
- 2008003216 contributor B11074643.
- 2008003216 coverage "Caribbean Area Foreign relations United States.".
- 2008003216 coverage "Caribbean Area Politics and government 1945-".
- 2008003216 coverage "United States Foreign relations Caribbean Area.".
- 2008003216 created "c2008.".
- 2008003216 date "2008".
- 2008003216 date "c2008.".
- 2008003216 dateCopyrighted "c2008.".
- 2008003216 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-209).".
- 2008003216 description "Introduction: understanding and explaining Latin Caribbean regime transitions -- Democratisation and its international aspects -- The Latin Caribbean -- The United States and the promotion of democracy -- Interlocking regime transitions and regional order -- The shadow of the United States -- Research methodology -- The Dominican Republic: -- From tyranny to democracy -- The rise of the Trujillo regime -- Order and change in the Caribbean basin -- The turning point -- Engaging the United States -- The beginning of the end -- Beginning of the Dominican transition -- The Council of State -- Giving democracy a chance -- Back to authoritarian rule -- The countercoup and the United States military intervention -- The provisional government and the elections of 1966 -- Reappraising the Dominican experience -- Nicaragua: dictatorship, revolution and democracy -- The rise of the Somoza's dynastic dictatorship -- The turning point -- Dwindling choices -- To intervene or not to intervene -- Too little, too late -- The Nicaraguan revolution -- Handling Reagan's obsessions -- Beyond the United States -- The first Nicaraguan elections -- Transition under siege -- Allowing democratic institutions to evolve -- Apraising the US in Nicaraguan politics -- Panama: The canal and the transition -- The United States in Panama's political history -- The breakdown of oligarchic rule -- The Torrijos regime -- The canal and the transition -- Changing domestic and international circumstances -- The United States military intervention -- The Panamanian experience -- Conclusions: Latin Caribbean -- Regime transitions in comparative perspective -- Proposition one: US power distorted Latin Caribbean regime trajectories, without being sufficient to determine their outcomes -- Proposition two: domestic actors altered their calculations and choices to take into account the likely reactions of the hegemon -- Proposition three: the set of domestic/international interactions propelling each regime transition is also conditioned by the broader regional order and the sequence of political events in neighbouring countries -- Explaining Latin Caribbean regime trajectories.".
- 2008003216 extent "209 p. ;".
- 2008003216 identifier "1599424398 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- 2008003216 identifier "9781599424392 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- 2008003216 identifier 2008003216.html.
- 2008003216 issued "2008".
- 2008003216 issued "c2008.".
- 2008003216 language "eng spa".
- 2008003216 language "eng".
- 2008003216 publisher "Boca Raton, Fla. : BrownWalker Press,".
- 2008003216 spatial "Caribbean Area Foreign relations United States.".
- 2008003216 spatial "Caribbean Area Politics and government 1945-".
- 2008003216 spatial "Caribbean Area.".
- 2008003216 spatial "United States Foreign relations Caribbean Area.".
- 2008003216 subject "327.73072909/04 22".
- 2008003216 subject "Democratization Caribbean Area.".
- 2008003216 subject "F2178.U6 S6713 2008".
- 2008003216 tableOfContents "Introduction: understanding and explaining Latin Caribbean regime transitions -- Democratisation and its international aspects -- The Latin Caribbean -- The United States and the promotion of democracy -- Interlocking regime transitions and regional order -- The shadow of the United States -- Research methodology -- The Dominican Republic: -- From tyranny to democracy -- The rise of the Trujillo regime -- Order and change in the Caribbean basin -- The turning point -- Engaging the United States -- The beginning of the end -- Beginning of the Dominican transition -- The Council of State -- Giving democracy a chance -- Back to authoritarian rule -- The countercoup and the United States military intervention -- The provisional government and the elections of 1966 -- Reappraising the Dominican experience -- Nicaragua: dictatorship, revolution and democracy -- The rise of the Somoza's dynastic dictatorship -- The turning point -- Dwindling choices -- To intervene or not to intervene -- Too little, too late -- The Nicaraguan revolution -- Handling Reagan's obsessions -- Beyond the United States -- The first Nicaraguan elections -- Transition under siege -- Allowing democratic institutions to evolve -- Apraising the US in Nicaraguan politics -- Panama: The canal and the transition -- The United States in Panama's political history -- The breakdown of oligarchic rule -- The Torrijos regime -- The canal and the transition -- Changing domestic and international circumstances -- The United States military intervention -- The Panamanian experience -- Conclusions: Latin Caribbean -- Regime transitions in comparative perspective -- Proposition one: US power distorted Latin Caribbean regime trajectories, without being sufficient to determine their outcomes -- Proposition two: domestic actors altered their calculations and choices to take into account the likely reactions of the hegemon -- Proposition three: the set of domestic/international interactions propelling each regime transition is also conditioned by the broader regional order and the sequence of political events in neighbouring countries -- Explaining Latin Caribbean regime trajectories.".
- 2008003216 title "A la sombra de los Estados Unidos. English".
- 2008003216 title "In the shadow of the United States : democracy and regional order in the Latin Caribbean / Giancarlo Soler Torrijos.".
- 2008003216 type "text".