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Power And Profits : U.S. Policy in Central America
The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union provided the context for U.S. policies toward Central America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Nonetheless, attitudes developed during the Cold War cannot explain the specific content of U.S. foreign policies toward the region. Ronald W. Cox ar...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Power And Profits : |b U.S. Policy in Central America |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Explaining U.S. Foreign Economic Policy: Toward a Business Conflict Model; State-centered Approaches; Society-centered Approaches; An Overview of the Business Conflict Model; Business Groups and Sectoral Conflict; The Institutions: Executive Branch and Congress; The Question of National Security; Class Conflict and Instability; Methodology; 2. The ""Trade Not Aid"" Strategy for Third World Industrialization; Facilitating Direct Foreign Investment; ""Trade Not Aid"" and ECLA; The World Bank; The Point Four Program. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Point Four Aid to El SalvadorU. S. Aid for the Inter-American Highway; The Origins and Functions of the EXIM Bank; Internationalists vs. Nationalists; 3. U.S. Intervention in Guatemala: Prelude to a Common Market; Business Conflict over ""Trade and Aid""; Corporate Interests in Guatemala; Public Anticommunism and Private Interests; The Shift to ""Trade and Aid"" in Guatemala; The Lessons of Guatemala: The Need for Trade and Aid; 4. Business Welcomes Creation of Central American Common Market; The Administration Shifts Its Stance; U.S. Influence on the Inter-American Development Bank. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a U.S. Influence on the Development Policies of the Central American Bank for Economic IntegrationA Dramatic Increase in Bilateral Assistance to Latin America; Business Internationalists and the Alliance for Progress; The AID Regime in El Salvador; 5. Support for Export Promotion in Central America and the Caribbean; The Decline of the Central American Common Market; Subcontracting in the Caribbean Basin; Agribusiness in the Caribbean Basin; Banking in the Caribbean Basin; The Drive toward Export Promotion under Johnson and Nixon; Bilateral Aid to Regional Integration Drops Sharply. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a A New Orientation for AID6. The Shift toward Economic Stabilization and More Military Aid; Capital-intensive Investors; The Interventionist Coalition; Subcontracting in the Caribbean Basin; The Reagan Administration and Central America; The Caribbean Basin Initiative; 7. The Business Conflict Model: The Relationship of Business to the State; Business Conflict and Sectoral Politics; Business Conflict and the Institutions of Government; The Business Conflict Model and National Security; Class Conflict and Instability; Other Applications of the Business Conflict Model; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union provided the context for U.S. policies toward Central America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Nonetheless, attitudes developed during the Cold War cannot explain the specific content of U.S. foreign policies toward the region. Ronald W. Cox argues that U.S. business interests have worked with policymakers to develop trade, aid and investment policies toward Central America. He reveals how the relationship between business groups and the state has been shaped by business competition, national security considerations, institutional structur. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Concentration d'entreprises |z Amerique centrale. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Industrial concentration |z Central America. | |
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| 651 | 7 | |a Central America. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01244535 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Amerique centrale |x Relations economiques exterieures |z États-Unis. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Central America |x Foreign economic relations |z United States. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement IV | ||