Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962 (Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace) - Softcover

Zachary Karabell (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807123412 ISBN 13: 9780807123416

Publisher: LSU Press, 1999

Synopsis

In telling the story of seven of the most significant U.S. interventions in the third world during the key cold-war years 1946-1962, Zachary Karabell reveals in Architects of Intervention a complex interplay between the American government and third-world actors in designing U.S. policy in their respective countries. Cold-war historians have tended to stress the decisions made in Washington (or alternately Moscow) and their effect on the third world, but Karabell, making use of recently declassified CIA documents, assigns a roughly equal role to third-world countries as architects both of their own histories and of the international system of the cold war. Looking at U.S. interventions in Greece, Italy, Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon, Cuba, and Laos, Karabell offers a major new understanding of U.S. foreign relations history that bears significant implications for present-day policymaking.

About this title

Synopsis:

In telling the story of seven significant US interventions during the key cold war years, this text aims to show the interplay between the American government and third world actors in designing US policy and their respective countries. The author describes US mediation in Greece and Italy and then moves to the core of his argument: interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon and Cuba. Those involvements, he explains, arose not only out of decisions made in Washington but also out actions in the cafes of Beirut, in the streets of Havana, in the alleys of Tehran and in the jungles of Guatemala. He considers American intervention in Laos, characterizing it as a harbinger of Vietnam.

About the Author:

Zachary Karabell is a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Middle East Institute. He is the author of What's College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807123412
• ISBN 13: 9780807123416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250