Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
A01=Bryce Wood
Author_Bryce Wood
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPSD
Category=NL-HB
COP=United States
Discount=15
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=229
IMPN=University of Texas Press
ISBN13=9780292766488
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20140801
POP=Austin
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=University of Texas Press
Subject=History
TX
WG=680
WMM=152

Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy

Paperback | English

By (author): Bryce Wood

The Good Neighbor Policy was unique: a great power obligated itself not to use force in its dealings with twenty smaller powers and not to interfere in their domestic politics. It was a policy that lasted, with some perturbations, for twenty years: instituted by President Roosevelt in 1933 and carried out effectively from 1933 to 1943 by word and action, maintained during the Second World War largely as a result of British concern for continuance of Argentine beef exports, codified in the Charter of the Organization of American States in 1948, and reasserted by Truman and Acheson in 1950–51, it was covertly repudiated in Guatemala in 1954 by Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers, and not so secretly by Kennedy in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Openly shattered in the Dominican Republic by Johnson in 1965, it has since been completely abandoned in favor of the usual relationships between large and small powers.

Working with documents from the Public Records Office in London and the National Archives, with recently released materials from the U.S. Department of State, and with secondary sources, Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found. Having told half the story in his The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, Wood now concludes it in the present volume. One of the chief casualties is shown to be the Organization of American States, which since 1954 has found itself badly crippled in its work to promote harmony and continued cooperation among the member states.

See more
Current price €29.99
Original price €34.60
Save 13%

Will deliver when available.

Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 1985
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication City/Country: Austin, US
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780292766488

About Bryce Wood

Bryce Wood was a noted diplomatic historian who specialized in Latin America.

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept