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Author Walker, Vanessa, 1978- author.

Title Principles in power : Latin America and the politics of U.S. human rights diplomacy / Vanessa Walker
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : illustrations
Series The United States in the world
United States in the world.
Contents 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 -- One of the Most Difficult and Vexing Cases : Weighing the Costs of Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations -- The Reagan Reinvention : A Cold War Human Rights Vision -- Conclusion : The Golden Years of Human Rights?
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2020)
Subject Human rights -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Human rights -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Human rights advocacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Diplomatic relations
Human rights
Human rights advocacy
Human rights -- Government policy
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140114
Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074894
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
Subject Latin America
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020017809
ISBN 9781501752698
1501752693
1501752685
9781501752681