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Product Description: U.S. Marines in Haiti. Pirates or drug traffickers penetrating the southern border of the United States. Special economic arrangements that foster growth for some and hardship for others. These headlines about the Caribbean's international relations and its impact on the United States could date from both the beginning and the end of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more