{"product_id":"crossroads-congress-the-president-and-central-america-19761992-9780271010984","title":"Crossroads Congress the President and Central","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the struggles over the formualtion and implementation of US foreign policy toward Central America during the critical period of 1976 to 1992. This secon edition includes a chapter on the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates at the end of the Bush administration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Arnson, a Washington-based expert on Central America, sets the standard of scholarship for studies of U.S. politics and this country’s involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the Reagan years.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A highly informative year-by-year account of the making of United States policy toward El Salvador and Nicaragua in the Reagan era. Ms. Arnson, a former Congressional aide who [taught] international relations at American University, provides a careful and noninflammatory reading of the issues that both divided and united the two branches of government--no mean feat considering how highly charged a subject this remains.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A comprehensive, informative, and clearly written account of the Washington politics of policymaking toward Central America in the 1980s. . . . Herself a participant in the debate as a foreign policy aide to Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.), the author details how the stakes rose until the repeated votes over military aid and other aid to the Nicaraguan contras became the touchstone both of foreign policy prerogatives and of competing worldviews. . . . An illuminating study.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This especially insightful and well-documented account draws on declassified U.S. government documents as well as the author’s interviews with policymakers in both branches of government.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLatin American Research Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400773083479,"sku":"9780271010984","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271010984.jpg?v=1730471539","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crossroads-congress-the-president-and-central-america-19761992-9780271010984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}