Richard Nixon’s Caribbean Milieu, 1950–1968 (2025)

The Nixon Administration and Cuba

2021

Cracks in the conspiracy: the CIA and the cocaine trade in South Central Los Angeles

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2001

Henry Kissinger, Watergate, the CIA, and the Latin American Connection

A Contracorriente, 2024

An advance of a book coming out on the 80th anniversary of the most important trial of the 20th Century… Changing Sides: Henry Kissinger and the Nuremberg Legacy https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2454/3747 Martin Edwin Andersen first broke the story in The Nation in 1987 of Henry Kissinger giving a “green light” to Argentina’s far-right generals for their state terrorist dirty war. Andersen subsequently lost his job as a professor at the Pentagon’s National Defense University(NDU) at the hands of vice ADM. Ann E. Rondeau for, among other disclosures, blowing the whistle on an NDU colleague from Chile who served previously as a senior official in Captain General Augusto Pinochet’s state terrorism organization. Jaime GarcíaCovarrubias later received life imprisonment for his role in three separate cases of the murders of nine unarmed people, being found guilty in 2023, the fiftieth anniversary of the far-right military coup there, in the case involving four detained university students and others. Andersen’s latest book, Changing Sides: Henry Kissinger and the Nuremberg Legacy, is due out in late 2025, the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials.

The Exceptional Politics of Richard Nixon: Politicking, Sovereignty, or "High Crimes and Misdemeanours"?

Cultural Critique, 2022

This article challenges the standard view of Richard Nixon’s actions surrounding the Watergate affair as ‘criminal’, and tries rather to understand how they might be considered properly political. What follows is an attempt to demonstrate how President Nixon’s reflexive and idiosyncratic understanding of Watergate indicates a particular understanding of Sovereignty. Departing from the normativity of Liberal Constitutionalism, Nixon betrayed a distinctly Schmittian conception of sovereignty, not to mention of ‘the political’ more broadly, and so engaged in a ‘politicisation’ of constitutional government beyond the norm. The piece explores the political theoretical connection of Carl Schmitt’s political theology contextualised into the ‘concrete situation’ of Watergate embedded in the broader setting of the Nixon Presidency. The intention is to suggest some counterintuitive ways of looking at Watergate, so as to move in more critically effective directions than the currently dominant preoccupation on the American Left with executive criminality.

Some Unpopular History of the United States -- The Nixon Years and the Jewish super mafia

same , 2019

CIA’s political warfare and US war crimes.

Disturbing secrets: US-Costa Rican relations during the Nixon administration

Cold War History, 2019

Season of Storms: The United States and the Caribbean Contest for a New Political Order, 1958-1961

Review of 'Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World

Reviews in History, 2015

The Dictator and the Mafia: How Rafael Trujillo Partnered with US Criminals to Extend His Power

Journal of Global South Studies, 2018

Transnational relations between state institutions and organized criminal groups have excited tremendous interest among criminologists since the 1990s but have been largely neglected by historians, in part because of the paucity of source material. Thanks to the extensive declassification of FBI and CIA files, we can now glimpse the importance of such relations during the Cold War through a case study of the tactical alliances forged between powerful US criminals and Gen. Rafael Trujillo, who ran the Dominican Republic with an iron hand from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo tapped their expertise in gambling, arms trafficking, and even murder to increase his wealth and to extend his power into the United States and other nearby countries, such as Cuba. US organized crime bosses in turn were drawn to the Dominican Republic as a market for the kind of lucrative gambling businesses they had enjoyed in Cuba before the Castro revolution. They came on Trujillo's terms, as business partners and anti-Communist allies, never as rivals for power. But they maintained enough independence to stay entrenched in the country even after Trujillo's assassination. Jonathan Marshall is an independent scholar living in San Anselmo, California. He can be contacted at jvmarsha1@yahoo .com.

Michael Mann’s Miami Vice: Protecting White America in the 1980s’

Television and New Media,, 2009

Michael Mann was the Executive Producer for the first two seasons of Miami Vice during the mid-1980s. This article argues that his worldview is deeply imprinted on the series. Mann’s worldview thinks of society as organized by law and that, outside of the law, there is unregulated violence. In Miami Vice this view organizes the relationship between the United States and the world beyond its boundaries—a world of gunrunners, drug lords, and others who are threatening the integrity of the United States. Most especially, this United States is threatened by Latin Americans whose illegal activities have to be stopped by the Miami Organized Crime Bureau. While Miami Vice has been praised for its avant-garde, postmodern emphasis on style, this article argues that it was actually the show’s politics—so reassuring for mainstream, white America—that provided the basis for Miami Vice’s remarkable popularity.