Cottam explains the patterns of U.S. intervention in Latin America
by focusing on the cognitive images that have dominated policy
makers' world views, influenced the procession of information, and
informed strategies and tactics. She employs a number of case
studies of intervention and analyzes decision-making patterns from
the early years of the cold war in Guatemala and Cuba to the
post-cold-war policies in Panama and the war on drugs in Peru.
Using two particular images-the enemy and the dependent-Cottam
explores why U.S. policy makers have been predisposed to intervene
in Latin America when they have perceived an enemy (the Soviet
Union) interacting with a dependent (a Latin American country), and
why these images led to perceptions that continued to dominate
policy into the post-cold-war era.
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