The Dominican Intervention

by Abraham F. Lowenthal

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.

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California and President Emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy; an adjunct professor (research) at Brown’s Watson Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the founding director of both the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and of the Inter-American Dialogue, and served as a Ford Foundation official in Latin America, as director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and on numerous editorial and governance boards. His AB, MPA and PhD are all from Harvard University.