The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801451965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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William Michael Schmidli is Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University.
When Argentina began a reconciliation process in 1983 after the fall of the dictatorship, Reagan embraced it. This very valuable study also underscores the vital roles of human rights activists and Congress in laying the foundations for Carter’s diplomatic offensive."Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, (January/February 2014) "This disturbing study examines the US response to Argentina's 'dirty war,' during which the military government tortured and killed (‘disappeared’) thousands of political dissidents . Drawing on declassified documents and personal interviews, Schmidli paints colorful portraits of key
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policy from subtle support to public condemnation of human rights violation. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. ties to anticommunist, right-wing military regimes.The competition between cold warriors and human rights advocates culminated in a fierce struggle to define U.S. By the mid-1970s, however, the blossoming human rights movement in the United States posed a serious threat to the maintenance of close U.S. policy during the Jimmy Carter presidency. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militariesa strategy clearly evident in the Ford administration's tacit support of state-sanctioned terror in Argentina following the 1976 military coup d’état. During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, u