The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States

By Steven E. Hendrix

An insider's look at the changes going on in Nicaragua--the internal political maneuvering of Daniel Ortega, the responses by the United States, and the success of recent American pro-democracy civil society efforts there.

At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winning author Steven Hendrix was on the ground in Nicaragua working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States is Hendrix's eyewitness account of the changes going on there.

What Hendrix found in the new Nicaragua is a decidedly mixed bag: a presidential campaign marked by dirty tricks and backroom deals, yet an election held under the first neutral comprehensive observation ever in the developing world; an overt effort to appease the United States even while attempting to undermine U.S. policy in the region. Yet despite this, Hendrix saw U.S. pro-democracy, civil society efforts succeed, disproving the many skeptics who doubt that nation-building is even possible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313379580
• ISBN13: 9780313379581
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"