US-Grenada Relations

Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard

• Author(s): G. Williams,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 298
• ISBN_10: 0230609953
  ISBN_13: 9780230609952
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / Globalization , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Political Science / General ,

Description:... Why did the world's strongest power intervene militarily in the tiny Commonwealth Caribbean island of Grenada in October 1983? This book focuses on United States-Grenada relations between 1979 and 1983 set against the wider historical context of US-Caribbean Basin relations. It presents an in-depth study of US policy during the Carter and Reagan presidencies and the deterioration of relations with the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolution Government (PRG) of Grenada. It considers in detail the murderous internal power struggle that destroyed the PRG and the decisionmaking process that resulted in a joint US-Caribbean military intervention.