In the shadow of the United States
Subtitle: democracy and regional order in the Latin Caribbean
By: Giancarlo Soler Torrijos.
Publisher: BrownWalker Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781599424392
Subjects: Democratization -- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Work titles: A la sombra de los Estados Unidos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-209).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: understanding and explaining Latin Caribbean regime transitions; title: Democratisation and its international aspects; title: The Latin Caribbean; title: The United States and the promotion of democracy; title: Interlocking regime transitions and regional order; title: The shadow of the United States; title: Research methodology; title: The Dominican Republic:; title: From tyranny to democracy; title: The rise of the Trujillo regime; title: Order and change in the Caribbean basin; title: The turning point; title: Engaging the United States; title: The beginning of the end; title: Beginning of the Dominican transition; title: The Council of State; title: Giving democracy a chance; title: Back to authoritarian rule; title: The countercoup and the United States military intervention; title: The provisional government and the elections of 1966; title: Reappraising the Dominican experience; title: Nicaragua: dictatorship, revolution and democracy; title: The rise of the Somoza's dynastic dictatorship; title: The turning point; title: Dwindling choices; title: To intervene or not to intervene; title: Too little, too late; title: The Nicaraguan revolution; title: Handling Reagan's obsessions; title: Beyond the United States; title: The first Nicaraguan elections; title: Transition under siege; title: Allowing democratic institutions to evolve; title: Apraising the US in Nicaraguan politics; title: Panama: The canal and the transition; title: The United States in Panama's political history; title: The breakdown of oligarchic rule; title: The Torrijos regime; title: The canal and the transition; title: Changing domestic and international circumstances; title: The United States military intervention; title: The Panamanian experience; title: Conclusions: Latin Caribbean; title: Regime transitions in comparative perspective; title: Proposition one: US power distorted Latin Caribbean regime trajectories, without being sufficient to determine their outcomes; title: Proposition two: domestic actors altered their calculations and choices to take into account the likely reactions of the hegemon; title: 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; title: Explaining Latin Caribbean regime trajectories.