Abstract
In April 1965, fighting broke out in the Dominican Republic between two ideologically opposed groups, and each soon declared itself to be the legitimate government. American citizens were advised to prepare for evacuation; a number of them were shipped out; and many others assembled on the lawn of a hotel in the capital, Santo Domingo, to await their turn. Into this situation, on 28 April, came United States marines and parachute troops, the first time they had been moved in this way since the inauguration of that state’s ‘good neighbour’ policy in 1933. Their function was said to be to protect their fellow citizens, and other foreign nationals, and escort them safely from the country.
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Further Reading
Audrey Bracey, Resolution of the Dominican Crisis, 1965 (Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1980).
Yale H. Ferguson, ‘The Dominican Intervention of 1965: Recent Interpretations’, International Organization, 27 (4) (Autumn 1973).
Alan James, The Politics of Peacekeeping (London: Chatto Windus, for the Institute for Strategic Studies, 1969).
Aida Luisa Levin, The Organization of American States and the United Nations (New York: United Nations Institute for Training and Research, 1974).
Indar Jit Rikhye, The Theory and Practice of Peacekeeping (London: Hurst, for the International Peace Academy, 1984).
Indar Jit Rikhye, Michael Harbottle and Bjorn Egge, The Thin Blue Line (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).
Jerome Slater, Intervention and Negotiation. The United States and the Dominican Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1970).
David W. Wainhouse et al., International Peacekeeping at the Crossroads (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973).
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James, A. (1990). The United States in the Dominican Republic (1965–1966). In: Peacekeeping in International Politics. Studies in International Security . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21026-8_11
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