
Published online:
23 May 2024
Published in print:
15 February 2024
Online ISBN:
9781501773754
Print ISBN:
9781501773730
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Interests Interests
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Interests in the United States Interests in the United States
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US Specific Assets US Specific Assets
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Interests in the Caribbean Interests in the Caribbean
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Indirect Rule Indirect Rule
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Governance Costs Governance Costs
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Indirect Rule in Cuba Indirect Rule in Cuba
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Consequences of Indirect Rule Consequences of Indirect Rule
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Appendix to Chapter 2 Appendix to Chapter 2
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Chapter
2 Indirect Rule in the Caribbean and Central America
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50–80
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Published:February 2024
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Lake, David A., 'Indirect Rule in the Caribbean and Central America', Indirect Rule: The Making of US International Hierarchy (Ithaca, NY , 2024; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501773730.003.0003, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the indirect rule in the Caribbean and Central America (CCA). It explains that the US policy in the CCA led to a century or more of brutal authoritarian repression and anti-Americanism. The United States mostly ruled indirectly while allying with local elites who then enacted policies that both preferred the strictly domestic policy alternative. Moreover, economic expansion is one of the primary interests that allowed indirect rule to flourish in the CCA. The chapter then discusses the forms of support provided by the United States to the regional elites, and the domestic political consequences of indirect rule.
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