The Dominican Intervention

Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the DominicanRepublic and the United States on rare access to classified U.S. government documents and on his own first-hand experiences during the crisis Abraham F. Lowenthal rejects official liberal and radical accounts of the intervention. Instead he explains it as the product of fundamental premises of decision-making procedures and of bureaucratic politics. In a new preface Lowenthal discusses the Dominican intervention in its Cold War context and in comparative and theoretical perspective. As the issue of U.S. military action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.