03047cam a2200469 i 4500001001900000003000500019008004100024010001600065020001500081027002100096035002000117037001100137040001900148043003000167050002500197100003200222245012400254264003700378300002700415336002600442337002600468337002800494338003600522338002700558500001700585500005000602504004100652520128600693530005801979588004702037650005002084651004702134651004502181651003602226651004702262700002902309700003802338710004702376710002202423710007302445856005902518rnd000000000047618RAND920212s1989    cau      b    000 0 eng d  a   88031758  a0833009141  aRAND/R-3662-USDP  a(Sirsi) a188811  c$25.00  aCstmoRcCstmoR  anc-----an-us---ancho---00aF1436.8.U6bR66 19891 aRonfeldt, David F.eauthor.10aU.S. involvement in Central America :bthree views from Honduras /cDavid Ronfeldt with Konrad Kellen, Richard Millett. 1aSanta Monica, CA :bRAND,c1989.  axii, 71 pages ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"July 1989."  a"National Defense Research Institute"--Cover.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aThis study, completed in September 1988, is based on interviews conducted in 1985 and 1986 with three Hondurans: Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, Cesar A. Batres, and Victor Meza. It reports on the way U.S. involvement in Central America is apparently being perceived in Honduras and how this may affect local political and military behavior, including security cooperation with the United States. The interviews substantiate the enduring and pervasive importance of nationalism as the prism through which local elites look at security issues. The interviews acknowledge the benefits Honduras obtains from U.S. involvement in the region. They also illuminate a growing sense of the costs and risks a small country faces in an alliance with the United States against an external threat that the small country faces to a lesser degree and that the United States seems unable to handle directly in an efficient way. Finally, the interviews warn about a slowly growing, unexpected potential for anti-Americanism in a country that has never been anti-American. The significance of the interviews seems to extend beyond Honduras, reflecting broader trends in strategic thinking in Latin America, suggesting that Latin American strategic thinking about the United States is entering a new phase.  aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aNationalismzHondurasxHistoryy20th century. 0aCentral AmericaxRelationszUnited States. 0aHondurasxPolitics and governmenty1982- 0aUnited StatesxMilitary policy. 0aUnited StatesxRelationszCentral America.1 aKellen, Konrad.eauthor.1 aMillett, Richard,d1938-eauthor.2 aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.)2 aRand Corporation.1 aUnited States.bOffice of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.41yOnline Accessuhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3662/