Covert Regime Change
America's Secret Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7869909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David S Foglesong (0009-0009-3122-4932, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 818-819 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz637 |
| OpenAlex | W2992417555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In this well-researched and clearly written book, Lindsay A. O'Rourke, a professor of political science at Boston College, vigorously argues that during the Cold War U.S. officials repeatedly launched covert interventions in foreign countries, even though most of the operations failed to effect regime changes, because the officials saw them as cheap ways to enhance U.S. security and power. Drawing on a wide reading in secondary sources supplemented by research at the National Archives and presidential libraries, O'Rourke analyzes sixty-four covert interventions from 1947 to 1989. After examining the causes, conduct, and consequences of the covert actions in chapters 3–5, O'Rourke turns to case studies of U.S. actions in Eastern Europe, Vietnam, and the Dominican Republic. She finds that more than 60 percent (39 of 64) of the efforts failed and most did not remain secret; yet policy makers continued to resort to covert actions and to overestimate their ability to keep the U.S. role hidden
Cold war · Covert · Foreign policy · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presidential system · Reading (process · Sociology · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |