Richard H. Immerman

The CIA in Guatemala : the foreign policy of intervention

* Preface *1. Truman, Eisenhower, and the Cold War in Latin America *2. Underdevelopment, Repression, and Revolution *3. The Revolutionary Governments: Communism or Nationalism? *4. The View from the North * S. From Truman to Eisenhower: The Road to Intervention *6. Project PBSUCCESS: The Preparation *7. Project PBSUCCESS: The Coup *8. Project PBSUCCESS: The Legacy * Notes * Bibliography * Index

John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War

As Dwight D. Eisenhowers Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulless diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulless conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

Effective National Security Advising: Recovering the Eisenhower Legacy

As the new president and his national security team ready themselves to address the global demands of a new century, they have two broad options. They can follow the precedent of the Clinton administration and take it for granted that the post-cold war international environment does not lend itself to overall planning, responding to international contingencies as they arise. Or they can conclude that precisely because international affairs are no longer defined by the extended confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, it is crucial to establish priorities and minimize the danger of being caught flat-footed by emerging developments. To the extent that it opts for the latter, the new administration would be advised to take note of a national security advisory system that was devised and operated by a chief executive who had devoted much of his adult life to the organization of collective endeavors-Dwight D. Eisenhower, the architect of the Normandy invasion and the Allied campaign in Europe in World War II. During his time in the White House, Eisenhower was beloved by the American people, but widely perceived by political cognoscenti to have been a mere presidential figurehead. We now know, however, that the former supreme commander was an astute and informed political leader who advanced his purposes

Transforming Analysis: The Intelligence Community's Best Kept Secret

Abstract This article argues that analytic practices and processes within the US intelligence community have undergone far more fundamental reform than the public or scholarly communities recognize. It identifies the dimensions of this ‘Analytic Transformation’ and explains the reasons for optimism about the future.

Revisionism Revisited: The New Left Lives@@@Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience.

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