Third World Instability: Central America As a European-American Issue (Europe/America, 3)

As the debate over the conflict in Central America widens, this volume examines differing approaches in Europe and the United States to political instability and revolutionary change in the Third World, using Central America as a case study. Four prominent authors, two European and two American, examine the extent to which the situation in Central America should be viewed in as East-West versus a North-South context; i.e., from a geopolitical standpoint or in terms of the economic and political problems of a developing region. An eminent Central American statesman also offers his critique of European and Ameican approaches to these issues.