Not Condemned To Repetition

Author : Robert Pastor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978258

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Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy Carter that mediated the first free election in Nicaragua's history. From his unique vantage point, and utilizing a wealth of original material from classified government documents and from personal interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan leaders, Pastor shows how Nicaragua and the United States were prisoners of a tragic history and how they finally escaped. This revised and updated edition covers the events of the democratic transition, and it extracts the lessons to be learned from the past.

Author : Robert Pastor
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110282980

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Not Condemned To Repetition, Second Edition by Robert Pastor Pdf

During the last three decades, Nicaragua posed three of the most difficult challenges faced by U.S. foreign policy-makers in the third world: how to cope with a declining, repressive, but previously "friendly” dictator? how to relate to an anti-American revolutionary government? how to facilitate a democratic transition? The Nicaraguan challenge was to establish a democratic and autonomous government, with as much support and as little interference as possible from the great powers. This book demonstrates how an unproductive interaction led to both sides’ worst nightmares. Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy Carter that mediated the first free election in Nicaragua’s history. From his unique vantage point, and utilizing a wealth of original material from classified government documents and from personal interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan leaders, Pastor shows how Nicaragua and the United States were prisoners of a tragic history and how they finally escaped. This revised and updated edition covers the events of the democratic transition, and it extracts the lessons to be learned from the past.

Author : Robert A. Pastor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691077525

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The new epilogue to Condemned to Repetition covers events, such as the Arias peace plan and the debate over funding for the Contras, through February 1988.

Author : Fiona Terry
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468643

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Condemned to Repeat? by Fiona Terry Pdf

Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for perpetrating genocide. This book contains documents from the former Rwandan army and government that were found in the refugee camps after they were attacked in late 1996. This material illustrates how combatants manipulate humanitarian action to their benefit. Condemned to Repeat? makes clear that the paradox of aid demands immediate attention by organizations and governments around the world. The author stresses that, if international agencies are to meet the needs of populations in crisis, their organizational behavior must adjust to the wider political and socioeconomic contexts in which aid occurs.

Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0262522578

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Condemned to Repetition? by Andrew Bennett Pdf

Why did the Soviet Union use less force to preserve the Soviet empire from 1989 to 1991 than it had used in distant and impoverished Angola in 1975? This book fills a key gap in international relations theories by examining how actors' preferences and causal conceptions change as they learn from their experiences. Andrew Bennett draws on interviews and declassified Politburo documents as well as numerous public statements to establish the views of Soviet and Russian officials. He argues that Soviet leaders drew lessons from their apparent successes in Vietnam and elsewhere in the 1970s that made them more interventionist. Then, as casualties in Afghanistan mounted in the 1980s, Soviet leaders learned different lessons that led them to withdraw from regional conflicts and even to abstain from the use of force as the Soviet empire dissolved. The loss of this empire led to exaggerated fears of "domino effects" within Russia and a resurgence of interventionist views, culminating in the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1994. Throughout this process, Soviet and Russian leaders and policy experts were divided into competing schools of thought as much by the information to which they were exposed as by their apparent material interests. This helps explain how Gorbachev and other new thinkers were able to prevail over the powerful military-party-industrial complex that had dominated Soviet politics since Stalin's time.

Author : Eric Bjornlund
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801880483

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Beyond Free and Fair by Eric Bjornlund Pdf

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Author : Fiona Terry
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468636

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Condemned to Repeat? by Fiona Terry Pdf

Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for perpetrating genocide. This book contains documents from the former Rwandan army and government that were found in the refugee camps after they were attacked in late 1996. This material illustrates how combatants manipulate humanitarian action to their benefit. Condemned to Repeat? makes clear that the paradox of aid demands immediate attention by organizations and governments around the world. The author stresses that, if international agencies are to meet the needs of populations in crisis, their organizational behavior must adjust to the wider political and socioeconomic contexts in which aid occurs.

Author : Max Guderzo,Bruna Bagnato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135180973

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The Globalisation of the Cold War by Max Guderzo,Bruna Bagnato Pdf

This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation. Offering a detailed analysis of this fundamental shift that occurred during this period, as well as the interconnections of this process with the new industrial-technological revolution, this book demonstrates how the United States returned to a position of global economic leadership. In so doing, the book aims to challenge the traditional and misleading paradigm that interprets the gradual development of the Cold War in basic bipolar terms; in fact, most of the factors triggering superpower attitudes and interplay were linked to a complex web of relations with their allies, as well as to the political, economic, social, ideological and military factors structurally intrinsic to the ‘peripheral’ regions where the confrontation actually took place. Many of the essays in this volume focus on the foreign and security policies of the United States, with the aim of reassessing the Carter administration as the foundation for Reagan’s final show-down with the Soviet Union. The contributors, however, go beyond the traditional patterns of foreign policy analysis, giving due attention to transnational phenomena and institutional histories that better explain the gradual transformation in the years that prepared the world for the post-Cold War globalisation era. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, international history, US foreign policy, European politics and IR in general. Max Guderzo is Professor of the History of International Relations and holds the Jean Monnet Chair of the History of European Unification at the University of Florence. Bruna Bagnato is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Florence.

Author : Janice Elva MacDonald
Publisher : Ravenstone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0888014155

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Condemned to Repeat by Janice Elva MacDonald Pdf

When Randy Craig lands a contract working at Alberta's historic Rutherford House she never expected to stumble upon an unsolved mystery in the Alberta Archives. As she digs deeper bodies start to pile up, making her think someone doesn't want her to uncover the truth.

Author : Jean d'. ESPAGNE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1647
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024023449

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New observations upon the Creed ... Whereunto is annexed the use of the Lord's Prayer maintained. (Englished by C. M. D. M.). by Jean d'. ESPAGNE Pdf

Author : Brian Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350328211

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A Conceptual History of Psychology by Brian Hughes Pdf

What is modern psychology and how did it get here? How and why did psychology come to be the world's most popular science? A Conceptual History of Psychology charts the development of psychology from its foundations in ancient philosophy to the dynamic scientific field it is today. Emphasizing psychology's diverse global heritage, the book explains how, across centuries, human beings came to use reason, empiricism, and science to explore each other's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The book skilfully interweaves conceptual and historical issues to illustrate the contemporary relevance of history to the discipline. It shows how changing historical and cultural contexts have shaped the way in which modern psychology conceptualizes individuals, brains, personality, gender, cognition, consciousness, health, childhood, and relationships. This comprehensive textbook: - Helps students understand psychology through its origins, evolution and cultural contexts - Moves beyond a 'great persons and events' narrative to emphasize the development of the theoretical and practical concepts that comprise psychology - Highlights the work of minority and non-Western figures whose influential work is often overlooked in traditional accounts, providing a fuller picture of the field's development - Includes a range of engaging and innovative learning features to help students build and deepen a critical understanding of the subject - Draws on examples from contemporary politics, society and culture that bring key debates and historical milestones to life - Meets the requirements for the Conceptual and Historical Issues component of BPS-accredited Psychology degrees. This textbook will provide students with invaluable insight into the past, present and future of this exciting and vitally important field. Read more from Brian Hughes on his blog at thesciencebit.net

Author : Wick Allison,Jeremy Adams,Gavin Hambly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050514333

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Condemned to Repeat it by Wick Allison,Jeremy Adams,Gavin Hambly Pdf

"Fifty crucial lessons from history that are not only fascinating in their own right but are constant reminders about how the world often opereates."--Jacket.

Author : Robert A. Yelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199925018

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The Language of Disenchantment by Robert A. Yelle Pdf

The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.

Author : Todd Greentree
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077639287

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Crossroads of Intervention by Todd Greentree Pdf

In Crossroads of Intervention, Todd Greentree argues that there are many valuable lessons to be learned about the nature of irregular warfare from the experiences of the United States in Central America during the final decade of the Cold War. This first comprehensive Strategy and policy analysis of U.S. intervention in Central America examines the origins, dynamics, and termination of the Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, the Salvadoran government's decade-long Conuterinsurgency against the FMLN, and the Contra insurgency against the Sandinistas. Greentree establishes the historical, political, and conceptual relationship between U.S. involvement in the Central American, wars, the Vietnam War and the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, while laying the foundation for an expanded understanding of the fundamental and recurring nature of insurgency, and intervention. U.S. involvement in Central America during the 1280s clearly demonstrates the costs, risks, and limits of intervention and the use of force in internal conflicts. The consequences of such involvement, he warns, must not be forgotten. Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List.

Author : Daniel Denison Whedon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094548

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A popular commentary on the New Testament by Daniel Denison Whedon Pdf