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

"A historical analysis of the Ronald Reagan administration's (1981-1989) human rights policy, focusing on the rise of democracy promotion as a US foreign policy priority in the late Cold War, using the US intervention against the revolutionary government of Nicaragua, the Sandinista Nation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidli, William Michael, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:United States in the world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Competing visions: human rights and American foreign policy in the era of détente, 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