Research Catalog

Title

The Nicaraguan resistance and U.S. policy : report on a May 1987 conference / David Ronfeldt and Brian Jenkins.

Author

Ronfeldt, David F.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, [1989]

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Additional Authors

• Jenkins, Brian Michael
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Air Force
• United States. Army

Description

v, 85 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

This report presents the results of a 1987 RAND conference on the Nicaraguan Resistance and U.S. Policy Implications. The conference, part of RAND's Western Hemisphere Forum, included presentations on (1) background of the resistance and U.S. support for it, (2) the strategic poverty of the Reagan Administration's vision regarding Nicaragua, (3) the Nicaraguan resistance in transition, (4) Sandinista strategy, and (5) diplomatic-political options in Nicaragua. The conference participants had varied backgrounds in official diplomatic and military capacities and in political activism, policy analysis, or policy-oriented research.

Alternative Title

Nicaraguan resistance and United States policy

Subject

• Counterrevolutionaries > Nicaragua
• Counterrevolutions > Nicaragua
• United States > Foreign relations > Nicaragua
• Nicaragua > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 1981-1989
• Nicaragua > Politics and government > 1979-1990
• United States > Foreign relations > 1989-

Note

• "June 1989."
• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the United States Air Force, the United States Army."
• "R-3678-OSD/AF/A/RC."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833009885

OCLC

20652556

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library