LEADER 05395nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910462773503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-87586-962-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299159 035 $a(EBL)1085193 035 $a(OCoLC)820787760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783316 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12363681 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783316 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10752205 035 $a(PQKB)10110545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1085193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1085193 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299159 100 $a20120905d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom conflict to crisis$b[electronic resource] $ethe danger of U.S. actions /$fJeanne M. Haskin 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Publishing$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87586-960-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; Introduction; Preferred Paths and Ends; Economic Scapegoating; Learning from Yugoslavia; The Threat of ""Balkanization""; There's a Reason It's Called Scapegoating; Chapter One: Unearthing the Bones; The Start of a New World; Separation of Church and State; The Enlightenment of Self-Interest; Scientific Obfuscation; In Adam Smith's Own Words; Abusive Self-Interest; The New Double Standard; Reallocation of Assets; Perfectly Rational Genocide; Chapter Two: Instilling the Illusion of Choice; The Predatory Debt Link; The Role of Indoctrination; Trojan Politics 327 $aChapter Three: Political StrategizingChapter Four: Behavioral Economics; Economic Faith; Capitalist Hand-Waving; Money, Religion and Politics; Putting It in Perspective; Chapter Five: Favoring Old Money Over New; The Boom-Bust Balance; Implicit Political Bargains; Chapter Six: Making the World Safe for Finance; American Hegemony Within the Bretton Woods Institutions; The IMF Takes Up Long Term Lending; Implementing Conditionality; The Neoliberal Shift; The Subtlety of Multilateral Aid; Back to Bargaining; "Softening" Reform; The Focus on Free Trade 327 $aChapter Seven: The Colonial History of BelizeThe First English Settlers; The Introduction of Slavery; The Evolution of Belize Under the British; The Early Government System; The People, Education, and Religion; The End of Slavery in Belize; The Guatemalan Dispute; The Economy; The Politics of Independence; Chapter Eight: Belize-Party Politics and Debt; The Cash Cow of Government; Costly Government Incentives; The Viewpoint of the IMF; Belize's Foreign Debt; The Predatory State; "Forty Years of Police Abuse"; The PUP and the Public; Austerity and Sacrifice 327 $aChapter Nine: Belize - Recommendations of the IMFChapter Ten: Nicaragua 1522-1939; Indigenous Depopulation; Encomienda and Repartimiento; Conflict with the Church; Harassment by the British; The Liberal-Conservative Divide; Nicaraguan Independence; Taking Land from the Indigenous Peoples; The Canal Treaty; William Walker; Conservatives versus Liberals; Sandino and Somoza; Chapter Eleven: Nicaragua - The Somoza Dynasty; Controlling the Opposition; Somoza's Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid and Development; The Succession of Luis Somoza; The Economic Climate; Opposition and Accommodation; The FSLN 327 $aThe Beginning of the EndSomoza Must Go; Chapter Twelve: Nicaragua - Opposition to the Sandinistas; The Result of the War for Liberation; The Early Government Structure; Foreign Aid in the Early Years; The El Salvador Situation; The "Totalitarian Dungeon"; The Coming of the Contras; Low Intensity Conflict; The 1984 Elections; Opposition and Resolution; Chapter Thirteen: Nicaragua - Implementing Neoliberalism; The UNO Victory; The Policies of Chamorro; The End of the Chamorro Regime; The Aleman-Bolanos Reforms; Self-Reproducing Debt and North-South Conflict; Aleman Charged With Corruption 327 $aA Strengthened Poverty Reduction Strategy 330 $aA society that is reared on competition will face unsettling challenges to authority if it doesn't set certain functions outside the arena of battle, via systematic enrichment of the affluent minority that has always had the power to topple and ruin the system. Today's preoccupation with America's revolutionary history is not just a piece of theater. At the heart of America's outrage is an inability to lash out and demand redemption from the source of its distress because the pain is inflicted, not by hatred, but by the fundamental lack of stability built into our way of life. Now that a fifth 606 $aNeoliberalism$zUnited States 606 $aBusiness cycles$zUnited States 606 $aCapitalism$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zCentral America 607 $aCentral America$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNeoliberalism 615 0$aBusiness cycles 615 0$aCapitalism 676 $a337.730728 700 $aHaskin$b Jeanne M.$f1964-$0869902 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462773503321 996 $aFrom conflict to crisis$91942206 997 $aUNINA