JOHN MASON HART
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520223240
- eISBN:
- 9780520939295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520223240.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter focuses on the American government's intervention in the revolution in Mexico. The U.S. government decided to intervene after American interests in Mexico suffered major losses to the ...
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This chapter focuses on the American government's intervention in the revolution in Mexico. The U.S. government decided to intervene after American interests in Mexico suffered major losses to the rural revolutionaries led by Venustiano Carranza between late 1912 and April 1914. This chapter discusses the decision of American political leaders to take control of the Panama Canal project in 1904 and invade Mexico in 1914 and 1916.Less
This chapter focuses on the American government's intervention in the revolution in Mexico. The U.S. government decided to intervene after American interests in Mexico suffered major losses to the rural revolutionaries led by Venustiano Carranza between late 1912 and April 1914. This chapter discusses the decision of American political leaders to take control of the Panama Canal project in 1904 and invade Mexico in 1914 and 1916.
Atul Kohli
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- February 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190069629
- eISBN:
- 9780190069650
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190069629.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations and Politics
This chapter analyzes American interventions in the developing world during the Cold War. While a struggle against communism provided the context of the interventions in Iran, Vietnam, and Chile, the ...
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This chapter analyzes American interventions in the developing world during the Cold War. While a struggle against communism provided the context of the interventions in Iran, Vietnam, and Chile, the deeper motive was to dislodge nationalists who challenged American design to create a worldwide open economy order. The mechanisms varied, from covert coups in Iran and Chile to hard militarism in Vietnam. The benefits to the United States also varied; it experienced nominal success in Chile but a costly defeat in Vietnam. Democracy in both Iran and Chile was derailed, and both countries remained commodity exporters under American tutelage. By contrast, a repressive communist regime came to control Vietnam that has successfully pursued an economic program of industrialization and poverty alleviation.Less
This chapter analyzes American interventions in the developing world during the Cold War. While a struggle against communism provided the context of the interventions in Iran, Vietnam, and Chile, the deeper motive was to dislodge nationalists who challenged American design to create a worldwide open economy order. The mechanisms varied, from covert coups in Iran and Chile to hard militarism in Vietnam. The benefits to the United States also varied; it experienced nominal success in Chile but a costly defeat in Vietnam. Democracy in both Iran and Chile was derailed, and both countries remained commodity exporters under American tutelage. By contrast, a repressive communist regime came to control Vietnam that has successfully pursued an economic program of industrialization and poverty alleviation.
Kathryn C. Statler
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124407
- eISBN:
- 9780813134772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124407.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this alliance, especially the 1954 Geneva Conference, which represented both an end to the French military fight and a beginning to the American commitment to Vietnam. It is important to note that it was in 1950 when the first steps toward significant American involvement began.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the American intervention in Vietnam, which began with an alliance known as the Franco-American alliance. It looks at the events that led to the formation of this alliance, especially the 1954 Geneva Conference, which represented both an end to the French military fight and a beginning to the American commitment to Vietnam. It is important to note that it was in 1950 when the first steps toward significant American involvement began.
Irwin M. Wall
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225343
- eISBN:
- 9780520925687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225343.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the United States and Great Britain in dealing with the Sakiet crisis. It suggests that the French bombardment of the Sakiet Sidi Youssef on the ...
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This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the United States and Great Britain in dealing with the Sakiet crisis. It suggests that the French bombardment of the Sakiet Sidi Youssef on the Tunisian border in February 1958 marked the turning point of the Algerian War. The chapter explains that the attack resulted in Anglo-American intervention in a government crisis which rapidly evolved into a crisis of regime and the coming to power of Charles de Gaulle. It contends that the Anglo-American intervention significantly influenced France's policy in the Algerian War.Less
This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the United States and Great Britain in dealing with the Sakiet crisis. It suggests that the French bombardment of the Sakiet Sidi Youssef on the Tunisian border in February 1958 marked the turning point of the Algerian War. The chapter explains that the attack resulted in Anglo-American intervention in a government crisis which rapidly evolved into a crisis of regime and the coming to power of Charles de Gaulle. It contends that the Anglo-American intervention significantly influenced France's policy in the Algerian War.
Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814741399
- eISBN:
- 9780814786567
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814741399.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Barack Obama has repeatedly ...
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Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Barack Obama has repeatedly emphasized his administration's commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve been so quickly and severely tested than with the issue of the possible prosecution of Bush Administration officials. While some worry that without legal consequences there will be no effective deterrence for the repetition of future transgressions of justice committed at the highest levels of government, others echo Obama's seemingly reluctant stance on launching an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing by former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and members of the Office of Legal Counsel. Indeed, even some of the Bush Administration's harshest critics suggest that we should avoid such confrontations, that the price of political division is too high. Using this debate, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments. The chapters take distinct positions for and against the proposition, offering revealing reasons and illuminating alternatives. The question of whether any Bush administration officials violated the law is not asked, but rather the procedural, legal, political, and cultural questions of what it would mean either to pursue criminal prosecutions or to refuse to do so. By presuming that officials could be prosecuted, the chapters address whether they should.Less
Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Barack Obama has repeatedly emphasized his administration's commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve been so quickly and severely tested than with the issue of the possible prosecution of Bush Administration officials. While some worry that without legal consequences there will be no effective deterrence for the repetition of future transgressions of justice committed at the highest levels of government, others echo Obama's seemingly reluctant stance on launching an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing by former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and members of the Office of Legal Counsel. Indeed, even some of the Bush Administration's harshest critics suggest that we should avoid such confrontations, that the price of political division is too high. Using this debate, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments. The chapters take distinct positions for and against the proposition, offering revealing reasons and illuminating alternatives. The question of whether any Bush administration officials violated the law is not asked, but rather the procedural, legal, political, and cultural questions of what it would mean either to pursue criminal prosecutions or to refuse to do so. By presuming that officials could be prosecuted, the chapters address whether they should.
Dana El Kurd
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- June 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190095864
- eISBN:
- 9780197520758
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190095864.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became ...
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After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and many shadows of statehood arose in the territories. Today, however, no state has emerged, and the occupation has become more entrenched. Concurrently, the Palestinian Authority has become increasingly authoritarian, and Palestinians ever more polarised and demobilised. Palestine is not unique in this: international involvement, and its disruptive effects, have been a constant across the contemporary Arab world. This book argues that internationally backed authoritarianism has an effect on society itself, not just on regime-level dynamics. It explains how the Oslo paradigm has demobilised Palestinians in a way that direct Israeli occupation, for many years, failed to do. Using a multi-method approach including interviews, historical analysis, and cutting-edge experimental data, Dana El Kurd reveals how international involvement has insulated Palestinian elites from the public, and strengthened their ability to engage in authoritarian practices. In turn, those practices have had profound effects on society, including crippling levels of polarisation and a weakened capacity for collective action.Less
After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and many shadows of statehood arose in the territories. Today, however, no state has emerged, and the occupation has become more entrenched. Concurrently, the Palestinian Authority has become increasingly authoritarian, and Palestinians ever more polarised and demobilised. Palestine is not unique in this: international involvement, and its disruptive effects, have been a constant across the contemporary Arab world. This book argues that internationally backed authoritarianism has an effect on society itself, not just on regime-level dynamics. It explains how the Oslo paradigm has demobilised Palestinians in a way that direct Israeli occupation, for many years, failed to do. Using a multi-method approach including interviews, historical analysis, and cutting-edge experimental data, Dana El Kurd reveals how international involvement has insulated Palestinian elites from the public, and strengthened their ability to engage in authoritarian practices. In turn, those practices have had profound effects on society, including crippling levels of polarisation and a weakened capacity for collective action.
Dana El Kurd
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- June 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190095864
- eISBN:
- 9780197520758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190095864.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
The Introduction gives an overview of the state of Palestinian politics before and after the Oslo Accords. It sets up the argument of the remainder of the book that international, and particularly ...
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The Introduction gives an overview of the state of Palestinian politics before and after the Oslo Accords. It sets up the argument of the remainder of the book that international, and particularly American, intervention following the creation of the Palestinian Authority has increased authoritarian conditions in the Palestinian territories, as well as had a divisive effect on Palestinian society and inhibited their ability to mobilize according to their shared interests.Less
The Introduction gives an overview of the state of Palestinian politics before and after the Oslo Accords. It sets up the argument of the remainder of the book that international, and particularly American, intervention following the creation of the Palestinian Authority has increased authoritarian conditions in the Palestinian territories, as well as had a divisive effect on Palestinian society and inhibited their ability to mobilize according to their shared interests.
