Principles in power : Latin America and the politics of U.S. human rights diplomacy / Vanessa Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Vanessa, 1978- author.

Series:

United States in the world.

Cornell scholarship online.

The United States in the world

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Human rights.

Human rights--Latin America--History--20th century.

Human rights advocacy--United States--History--20th century.

Human rights advocacy.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

United States.

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Principles in Power' explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the U.S. government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. The book shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them. By addressing the development of U.S. diplomacy and politics alongside that of activist networks, especially in Chile and Argentina, the text shows that Latin America was central to the policy assumptions that shaped the Carter administration's foreign policy agenda.

Contents:

Introduction : Principles in Power

The Chilean Catalyst : Cold War Allies and Human Rights in the Western Hemisphere

Words Are Not Enough : Building a New Human Rights Agenda in the Shadow of the Past

A Special Responsibility : Human Rights and U.S.-Chilean Relations

One of the Most Difficult and Vexing Cases : Weighing the Costs of Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations

The Reagan Reinvention : A Cold War Human Rights Vision

Conclusion : The Golden Years of Human Rights?

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501752681

1501752685

OCLC:

1152354823