Freedom on the Offensive : : Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War / / William Michael Schmidli.

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• VerfasserIn: Schmidli, William Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The United States in the World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

In Freedom on the Offensive,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. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: “The Most Important Place in the World”: The Reagan Administration, Democracy Promotion, and the Nicaraguan Revolution
• 1. Competing Visions: Human Rights and US Foreign Policy in the Era of Détente, 1968–1980
• 2. “A Hostile Takeover”: The Reagan Administration and US Cold War Policy, 1981–1982
• 3. “Is This Not Respect for Human, Economic, and Social Rights?”: Nicaragua and the United States, 1979–1984
• 4. “Global Revolution”: The Ascendance of Democracy Promotion in US Foreign Policy, 1982–1986
• 5. Tracking the “Indiana Jones of the Right”: Right-Wing Transnational Activism, Public Diplomacy, and the Reagan Doctrine, 1981–1990
• 6. “The Grindstone on Which We Sharpen Ourselves”: Solidarity Activism and the US War on Nicaragua, 1981–1990
• 7. From the Cold War to the End of History: US Democracy Promotion, Interventionism, and Unipolarity, 1987–1990
• Conclusion: The Reagan Imprint: Democracy Promotion in US Foreign Relations after the Cold War
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index