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.

A major contribution to the understanding of American foreign policy. -- Ernest R. May, Harvard University

About the Author
Abraham F. Lowenthal directs the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. His books include Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America in the 1990s, revised edition.

Reviews
A balanced and insightful presentation of valuable historical data, and a very fine analysis of the process which produced the U.S. intervention, in which Lowenthal sheds much new light on developments in both Santiago and Washington. American Political Science Review The intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965 has inspired several books, and this one is clearly the best. Review of Politics



Book Information
ISBN 9780801847554
Author Abraham F. Lowenthal
Format Paperback
Page Count 246
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 312g