New Waves in the Caribbean

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
Terence L. Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
Caribbean Area ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Third World

There was a time when the Caribbean area loomed large on the American foreign policy scene. The Monroe Doctrine, the Cuban war, canal concerns, dollar-diplomacy—these issues occupied not only the time of diplomats but the attention of press and public as well. Yet now, ten years after the Cuban missile confrontation, seven after the Dominican Republic fiasco, Americans treat the Caribbean with monumental indifference. Rather than an area of great political concern, it has become merely a resort for winter holidays.But profound changes are under way in the Caribbean precisely in those islands known only for their tourist appeal. New forces in the British West Indies, traditionally the safe and stable members of the regional community, are transforming once sleepy tropical isles into fully conscious members of the Third World. One such force is the movement toward West Indian integration.

4. American foreign policy during the Cold War

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Saull
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter offers a theoretically informed overview of American foreign policy during the Cold War. It covers the main historical developments in U.S. policy: from the breakdown of the wartime alliance with the USSR and the emergence of the US–Soviet diplomatic hostility and geopolitical confrontation,to U.S. military interventions in the third world and the U.S. role in the ending of the Cold War. The chapter begins with a discussion of three main theoretical approaches to American foreign policy during the Cold War: realism, ideational approaches, and socio-economic approaches. It then considers the origins of the Cold War and containment of the Soviet Union, focusing on the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. It also examines the militarization of U.S. foreign policy with reference to the Korean War, Cold War in the third world, and the role of American foreign policy in the ending of the Cold War.

Angola: The Present Opportunity

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
John A. Marcum
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Henry Kissinger ◽  
The Third ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Gulf Of Tonkin ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Present Opportunity

As remote and improbable a venue for a crisis in American foreign policy as Quemoy or the Gulf of Tonkin, Angola (1975) came to assume a Munich-like symbolism in the calculations of Americans who perceived a threat of Soviet expansionism into the third world during the latter years of the Brezhnev era. Smarting from a political/military shutout in Angola that came on the heels of a humiliating American exodus from Saigon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pointed to Angola as the “principal” cause of a deterioration in U.S.-Soviet relations. Subsequent policy confrontations over Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia reinforced this perception of Angola as the beginning of the end of detente.

Ethics, American Foreign Policy, and the Third World

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Mahmood Monshipouri ◽  
Cingranelli ◽  
David Louis
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World
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