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This chapter examines the American intervention in the Dominican crisis of 1965. The first part of the chapter outlines the buildup to the intervention and the subsequent American invasion. The second part of the chapter evaluates the degree to which the intervention was truly focused on delivering democracy to the country. It first attempts to identify the degree that a desire to install democracy played in the Johnson administration’s decision to intervene. Subsequently, it investigates the degree to the post-intervention American actions were focused on delivering democracy in the Dominican Republic.
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Walker, S. (2019). The Dominican Republic. In: American Foreign Policy and Forced Regime Change Since World War II. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11232-5_2
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