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

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    • Walker, Vanessa

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

Vanessa Walker

(The United States in the world)

Cornell University Press, 2020

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-334) and index

Summary: "In the 1970s human rights advocates and U.S. government officials created a uniquely anti-interventionist, self-critical human rights agenda in Latin America and beyond. This book exposes the strained yet transformative relationship between these ambivalent allies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • 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
  • Weighing the costs : human rights in U.S.-Argentine relations
  • The Reagan reinvention : a Cold War human rights vision
  • Conclusion : the golden years of human rights?

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