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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Chapter 1: The analysis of revolution -- The nature of revolution -- The analysis of revolution -- Preparation -- Action -- Consolidation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Force in the international system -- Subversion -- Demonstrations of force -- Military aid -- Military intervention -- War -- Militarism -- After the Cold War -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Wars of national liberation -- Characteristics -- National liberation and the international system -- Dependency and neocolonialism

This Dictionary provides an impartial and valuable background to the Latin American region, vital for anyone interested in the current affairs, recent history and economy of this vast area. Entries provide definitions of terms, concepts, names and organizations key to discussions of Central and South America. Covering some 48 countries and territories, this volume offers a unique insight to the political and economic dimensions of this diverse region.

This study, arising from the Ford Foundation Southampton project on North-South security relations, focuses on the concept of security in Central America and the Caribbean, and on perceptions by states in the region of the rival claims of political independence, economic well-being, national security and regional stability. The Central American region is of particular interest because of the range it displays of crisis-management regimes and crisis-control techniques; it also provides an illuminating example of the contemporary interaction of East-West and North-South relations. Specific case studies are combined with theoretical analysis in this integrated assessment of the Central American situation that includes contributions from leading scholars in the UK, United States and Central America itself