"John F. Kennedy and Europe offers a collection of essays by both participants in and scholars of United States policy toward Europe from 1961 to 1963. The essays treat such important topics as Kennedy's relationships with European leaders, his administration's Italian and Portuguese policies, the Limited Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, and the balance-of-payments crisis with Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

In telling the story of seven significant US interventions during the key cold war years, this text aims to show the interplay between the American government and third world actors in designing US policy and their respective countries. The author describes US mediation in Greece and Italy and then moves to the core of his argument: interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon and Cuba. Those involvements, he explains, arose not only out of decisions made in Washington but also out actions in the cafes of Beirut, in the streets of Havana, in the alleys of Tehran and in the jungles of Guatemala....