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Volume 12, Issue 1.
Winter
In 1981, the Reagan administration took office pledging to restore America's global influence, especially in Latin America, where administration officials blamed former President Carter's policies for leading to the near-victory of a Marxist-Leninist insurgency in El Salvador. Michael A. Hammer, in a series of interviews with key American and ... read moreSalvadoran officials, details how circumstances forced the Reagan administration's policies to change, and even to resemble those of his predecessor. In protracted warfare, Hammer argues, executive policy must reflect congressional consensus or lose funding. In El Salvador the result has been an American foreign policy that seeks to promote progressive change rather than reinforce the reactionary status quo.
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