Capturing the Revolution: US, Central America & Nicaragua History 1961-1972 - Cold War Era Study for Historians & Political Science Students" （注：根据您提供的原始标题，这似乎是一本历史/政治类书籍而非跨境电商商品。我已按学术类书籍的SEO规范进行优化，添加了关键词"History"和"Cold War Era"，并明确了目标读者群"Historians & Political Science Students"。若实际为其他商品类型，请提供更多信息以便重新优化。）

At the start of the 1960s, revolution challenged the established world order. In every corner of the underdeveloped world, discontent with the status quo fueled attempts to revoke colonialism and the strangleholds on power maintained by entrenched local oligarchies. This book examines the causes of revolution in the sixties and the various responses crafted to stop it, in particular, the Alliance for Progress, a program which represented the best products of American developmental and counterinsurgency theory. Equally important, however, is an examination of the independent policies implemented by Latin Americans themselves, often in direct opposition to those pursued by the U.S.For the United States the period represented a challenge to both its sovereignty and its leadership in the so-called Free World. Perhaps more importantly, the disruptions blanketing the globe also pointed out the dramatic weaknesses of an American policy dominated by preparations for thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. For Latin America, revolution challenged national stability and, in the cases of the regimes it was directed against, their very survival.