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Somoza and Roosevelt
Good Neighbour Diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933-1945
Andrew Crawley
298 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-921265-1
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Hardback
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28 June 2007
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- Challenges the widespread view that Nicaragua's Somoza regime was in the pocket of Washington.
- Offers a fresh perspective on the issue of non-intervention in another country's affairs.
- Sheds new light on an important period of US diplomacy.
Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbour policy, coming in the wake of decades of US intervention in Central America, and following a lengthy US military occupation of Nicaragua, marked a significant shift in US policy towards Latin America. Its basic tenets were non-intervention and non-interference. The period was exceptionally significant for Nicaragua, as it witnessed the creation and consolidation of the Somoza government - one of Latin America's most enduring authoritarian regimes, which endured from 1936 to the sandinista revolution in 1979.
Addressing the political, diplomatic, military, commercial, financial, and intelligence
components of US policy, Andrew Crawley analyses the background to the US military withdrawal from Nicaragua in the early 1930s. He assesses the motivations for Washington's policy of disengagement from international affairs, and the creation of the Nicaraguan National Guard, as well as debating US accountability for what the Guard became under Somoza. Crawley effectively challenges the conventional theory that Somoza's regime was a creature of Washington. It was US non-intervention, not interference, he argues, that enhanced the prospects of tyranny.Readership: Scholars and students of political history and Latin American history; specialists in US foreign policy during the 1930s and 1940s; and those interested
in the issue of intervention in inter-state relations.
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Andrew Crawley, Formerly Deputy Director of the Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA)
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"[a] well written book with some interesting ideas." - Michael L. Krenn, Latin American Studies, vol 41, 2009
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Introduction
Becoming good neighbors
Good neighbour diplomacy and Somoza's rise to power, 1934-1935
Good neighbour economics in Nicaragua, 1933-1936
A new neighbour takes charge, 1935-1936
Good neighbour diplomacy and Somoza's retention of power, 1937-1939
The United States, Nicaragua, and World War Two, 1939-1941
The good neighbors at war, 1942-1944
Becoming bad neighbours
Conclusion
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