TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartley,Russell H.
AU  - Berrios,Ruben
AU  - Bradford Burns,E.
AU  - Cuddy,Edward
AU  - Duncan,W.Raymond
AU  - Edelman,Marc
AU  - Epstein,Barbara
AU  - Jacobsen,C.G.
AU  - Kirkpatrick,Jeane
AU  - Larkin,Bruce
AU  - Larkin,Bruce D.
AU  - Philip,George
AU  - Ratliff,William
AU  - Reagan,Ronald
AU  - Ronfeldt,David
AU  - Schulze,Peter W.
AU  - Shultz,George
AU  - Sweet,David G.
AU  - Tambs,Lewis
AU  - Valenta,Jiri
AU  - Vanderlaan,Mary
AU  - Whitehead,Laurence
TI  - Vital Interests: The Soviet Issue in U.S. Central American Policy 
SN  - 9781555871116
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Map of Central America --; Introduction --; Part I. THE CLAIM --; 1 A New Inter-American Policy for the Eighties --; 2 U.S. Security and Latin America --; 3 Geopolitics, Security, and U.S. Strategy in the Caribbean Basin --; 4 East Confronts West in Central America --; 5 Central America and U.S. Security --; 6 Why Democracy Matters in Central America --; 7 Nicaragua and the Future of Central America --; Part 2. CRITIQUES AND ASSESSMENTS OF THE CLAIM --; 8 Soviet-Cuban Involvement in Central America: A Critique of Recent Writings --; 9 The Dual Strategy Myth in Central American Policy --; 10 Reagan Administration Policymakers --; 11 Explaining Washington's Central American Policies --; 12 The Nicaraguan Conflict: Politics and Propaganda --; 13 A West European View: Walking a Tightrope Between Self-Assertion and Alliance Loyalty --; Part 3. SOVIET AND CUBAN ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA --; 14 Perspectives on the Soviet Presence in Central America --; 15 Soviet Attitudes Towards, Aid to and Contacts with Central American Revolutionaries --; 16 The USSR, Cuba, and the Crisis in Central America --; 17 Soviet-Nicaraguan Relations and the Contra War --; 18 Soviet Interests in Latin America: New Opportunities and Old Constraints --; 19 Diversifying Dependence: Nicaragua's New Economic Links with Socialist Countries --; Part 4. RECONCEPTIONS --; 20 America's Cuban Obsession: A Case Study in Diplomacy and Psycho-History --; 21 Historical Realities --; 22 Repentance and Reconciliation: The Road to Peace in Central America --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Assertions that Nicaragua's policies and political dispositions threaten U.S. security, critiques of that claim, and assessments of Soviet and Cuban activities and capabilities in Central America are represented in this unusual collection
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685855703
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685855703
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685855703/original
ER  -