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050 0 0 _aF1436.8.U6
_bR66 1989
100 1 _aRonfeldt, David F.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aU.S. involvement in Central America :
_bthree views from Honduras /
_cDavid Ronfeldt with Konrad Kellen, Richard Millett.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1989.
300 _axii, 71 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"July 1989."
500 _a"National Defense Research Institute"--Cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _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.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aNationalism
_zHonduras
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aCentral America
_xRelations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aHonduras
_xPolitics and government
_y1982-
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRelations
_zCentral America.
700 1 _aKellen, Konrad.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aMillett, Richard,
_d1938-
_eauthor.
710 2 _aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bOffice of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3662/
999 _c600171
_d600171