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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good in Good jacket. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. x, [4], 246, [4] pages. DJ has wear and soiling and is taped to the boards. Some edge soiling noted. Preface, Introduction, Chapters on: The United States and the Dominican Republic to 1965: Background to Intervention; The Origins of the 1965 Dominican Crisis: Setting the Stage; The Decision to Intervene; Deploying the Troops; and Explaining the Dominican Intervention. Appendix I: Alphabetical List of Persons Interviewed. Appendix II: A Guide to Public Sources for Study of the 1965 Dominican Crisis. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map of the Strategic Points in Santo Domingo, spring 1965 (p. 62). Abraham Lowenthal was a nonresident senior fellow with the Latin American Initiative in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is the first Robert F. Erburu Professor of Ethics, Globalization and Development and also professor of international relations at the University of Southern California (USC). He is president emeritus and a senior fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy, of which he was the founding president from 1995 to 2005. Lowenthal studies policy issues in US-Latin American relations; Latin America's changing international role; democratic governance, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean; and the role of international influences (particularly US policies) on prospects for democratic governance. Dr. Lowenthal researches on California's global role and relationships, the international interests of the Western region of the United States, and the craft of think tank institution building, in the U. S. and internationally. Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the Dominican Republic 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. 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. The Dominican Civil War took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civilian and military supporters of the overthrown democratically-elected president Juan Bosch ousted the militarily-installed president Donald Reid Cabral from office. The second coup prompted General Elías Wessin y Wessin to organize elements of the military loyal to President Reid ("loyalists"), initiating an armed campaign against the so-called "constitutionalist" rebels. In riposte, the dissidents passed out Cristóbal carbines and machine guns to several thousand civilian sympathizers and adherents. On April 29, the US ambassador to the Dominican Republic, William Tapley Bennett, who had sent numerous reports to US President Lyndon Johnson, reported that the situation had reached life-threatening proportions for US citizens and that the rebels received foreign support. Bennett stressed that the US had to act immediately, as the creation of an international coalition would be time-consuming. Contrary to the suggestions of his advisers, Johnson authorized the transformation of evacuation operations into a large-scale military intervention through Operation Power Pack, which was aimed to prevent the development of what he saw as a second Cuban Revolution. It was the first U.S. military intervention in Latin America in more than 30 years. United States intervention in the conflict (codenamed Operation Power Pack) later transformed into an Organization of American States occupation of the country by the Inter-American Peace Force. Elections were held in 1966, in the aftermath of which Joaquín Balaguer was elected into the presidential seat. Later in the same year, foreign troops departed from the country.
