The Continuing Crisis: U.S. Policy in Central America and the Caribbean : Thirty Essays by Statesmen, Scholars, Religious Leaders, and JournalistsMark Falcoff, Robert Royal The Continuing Crisis is a successor to the widely-used 1984 anthology Crisis and Opportunity. Nearly three-fourths of the essays are new. In addition to analyses from Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other prestigious journals, this volume contains the most significant original documents and official statements on the Central American crisis. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that points out main themes and relates complementary and opposing authors to one another. |
Contents
Map of the Region | 2 |
The Threat in Central America | 9 |
The Global Peoples Revolution | 19 |
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