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CHOICE Review

A readable and authoritative anthology of the external and internal dynamics of US-Central American relations, 1980-1986. Based on a 1986 conference of 30 Central American specialists, the 19 articles are largely devoid of jargon and are uniformly analytical and informative. Most of the essays approach the topic from a regional perspective, except for four selections on Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, which present specific case studies. In line with the sponsor, the Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America (PACCA), the essays sharply criticize Reagan administration policy. The contributors argue the success of the Reagan policy at home in Congress, but they point to its failure abroad to reimpose US hegemony through low-intensity warfare and the export of democracy in Central America. The work compares well with recent critical analyses: more readable than Towards an Alternative for Central America and the Caribbean, ed. by George Irvin et al. (CH, Dec '85); less introductory and US investments-oriented than The Politics of Intervention, ed. by Roger Burbach et al. (CH, Dec '84); and more representative of indigenous Central American scholarship than The Central American Crisis, ed. by Kenneth M. Coleman et al. (CH, Oct '85) or the comprehensive, country-specific Confronting Revolution, ed. by Morris J. Blachman et al. (CH, Jan '87). Of definite value to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty; the book will also benefit the more informed general reader. W. Q. Morales University of Central Florida

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Barry Eichengreen is John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Jeffry Frieden is professor of government at Harvard University. Jeffry Frieden is professor of government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987); Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1991); and the coeditor of many books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications. Manuel Pastor is professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. An economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, his research on Latin American issues has focused on such issues as distribution and stabilization, the political economy of trade reform, and the dynamics of transition in Cuba, and has been published in journals such as International Organization, World Development, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies , and Latin American Research Review. Michael Tomz is assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research on politics and economics has appeared in the American Journal of Politics , The American Political Science Review , and the British Journal of Political Science . Tomz holds an M.Phil. in politics from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and will receive his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. His current work examines relations between sovereign governments and foreign creditors during the 19th and 20th centuries.