The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere : : Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina / / William Michael Schmidli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schmidli, William Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militaries—a strategy clearly ev...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Human Rights and the Cold War
• 1. From Counterinsurgency to State-Sanctioned Terror: Waging the Cold War in Latin America
• 2. The “Third World War”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1960–1976
• 3. “Human Rights Is Suddenly Chic”: The Rise of The Movement, 1970–1976
• 4. “Total Immersion in All the Horrors of the World”: The Carter Administration and Human Rights, 1977–1978
• 5. On the Offensive: Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1978–1979
• 6. “Tilting against Gray-Flannel Windmills”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1979–1980
• Conclusion: Carter, Reagan, and the Human Rights Revolution
• Abbreviations Used in the Notes
• Notes
• Primary Sources
• Index