In Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer tells the stories of the audacious politicians, spies, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the latest, though perhaps not the last, example of the dangers inherent in these operations. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. "Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W.
“A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments-not always to its own benefit. Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Holt Paperbacks | Amazon page, 2004.Īmy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. "A truth commission report made public today concluded that the United States gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed ''acts of genocide'' against the Mayans during the most brutal armed conflict in Central America, Guatemala's 36-year civil war." Mireya Navarro, Guatemala Army Waged 'Genocide,' New Report Finds. John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. At the 41 minute mark, Kinzer criticizes McKinley for this decision and his sheer ignorance, as typical of white American religious-military views of the role of the U.S.
Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Jun 28, 2015. See also Stephen Kinzer, American Imperialism - Overthrow, Part 1: Cuba, Iran, and the Philippines. President McKinley believed God told him to take the Philippines from Spain, in order to “uplift and civilize and Christianize them.” This, despite the Philippines being the most Catholic country in Asia. General James Rusling, Interview with President William McKinley. Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies (website)īreaking the Silence (website) Israeli soldiers on the treatment of Palestinians by the State of Israel.
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