Taking examples from the two world wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the later Cold War, Desch (political science, U. of California) shows how the US government has been able to use basically unimportant countries in Latin American as entries to important ones, or to create diversions to distract superpower rivals. He suggests that the strategy can be well employed in post-Cold War US relations with Africa, the Middle East, and southern Asia. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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