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1 online resource (572 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART 1. Structural and Institutional Sources of Stability and Instability; 1 Ten Theories in Search of Central American Reality; (1) The Theory of Economic Development: Competitive Exclusion and Rural-Urban Underemployment; (2) Demographic Theory: The Population Explosion; (3) Psychoeconomic Theory: Relative Deprivation, Rising Expectations, and Economic Crisis; (4) The Theory of Political Development: Structural Petrification and Political Decay |
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(5) Elites and Interest Groups: Liberation Theologians, Reactionary Despots, and Revolutionary Zealots(6) The Theory of Process: Reform, Repression, and the Dialectic of Revolution; (7) The Domino Theory: Foreign Communist Aggression or Mutual Escalation?; (8) Theories of Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Is Nicaragua ""Another Cuba""?; (9) The United States as a Destabilizing Force: The Strategy of Conflict and the Politics of Counterproductivity; (10) The Quagmire Thesis: The Internationalization and Regionalization of Conflict |
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The United States and Central America: On Illusions, Realities, and No-Win SituationsNotes; 2 The United States and the Caribbean Basin in Historical Perspective; The United States and the Caribbean Basin in the Nineteenth Century; The Era of Imperialism; The Era of Hegemony; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Autumn of the Oligarchs; The Antecedents; Independence; The Century of the Oligarchs: 1880-1980; The Challenge of the Depression; The Modern Period: Imposing the Impossible, 1944-84; New Structures; The Turning Point; Conclusion; Notes |
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4 Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Central American ChurchThe Women; The Awakening; The Investigation; Revolution and the Church; El Salvador; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Notes; 5 The Economic Dimensions of Instability and Decline in Central America and the Caribbean; Historical Legacy and Important Regional Contrasts; The Empirical Record: Two Decades of Growth and Decline; Economic Change and Policy Response: Evidence and Issues; The Basic Needs Dimension and Agriculture; Summary and Conclusions: Domestic Policy Reforms and the Limitations of Extensive Foreign Aid; Notes |
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PART 2. Stability and Instability: A Country Focus6 El Salvador: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Living Museum; Structural Petrification and the Crisis of ""Development"": The Socioeconomic Dimension; Structural Petrification and the Crisis of ""Development"": The Political Dimension; Structural Petrification and the Dialectic of Revolution: The Disintegration of the Living Museum; The Politics of Reform and the Structure of Counterrevolution; Repression with Reform; The Opposition: The Struggle for Unity and Power; The ""Final Offensive"": Prelude to Showdown |
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The Reagan Administration and El Salvador: On the Strategy of Conflict and the Politics of Counterproductivity |
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Political stability -- Caribbean Area
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Revolutions -- Caribbean Area
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Counterrevolutions -- Caribbean Area
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Counterrevolutions
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Diplomatic relations
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Political stability
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Politics and government
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Revolutions
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Caribbean Area -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020290
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Caribbean Area -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020288
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Caribbean Area
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Graham, Douglas H
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| ISBN |
9781000238099 |
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1000238091 |
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