Freedom on the offensive : human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War / William Michael Schmidli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidli, William Michael, 1979- 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--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Human rights.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

Intervention (International law).

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

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Nicaragua--Case studies.

Nicaragua--Foreign relations--United States--Case studies.

Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century.

Contents:

Competing visions: human rights and American foreign policy in the era of detente, 1968-1980

"A hostile takeover": the Reagan administration and US Cold War policy, 1981-1982

"Is this not respect for human, economic, and social rights?": Nicaragua and the United States, 1979-1984

"Global revolution": the ascendance of democracy promotion in US foreign policy, 1982-1986

Tracking "the Indiana Jones of the right": right-wing transnational activism, public diplomacy, and the Reagan doctrine, 1981-1990

"The grindstone on which we sharpen ourselves": solidarity activism and the US war on Nicaragua, 1981-1990

From the Cold War to the end of history: US democracy promotion, interventionism, and unipolarity, 1987-1990.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

Also issued in print: 2022.

ISBN:

1-5017-6517-5

OCLC:

1305016871