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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schmidli, William Michael, 1979- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Series:	United States in the world.
Subjects:	Human rights > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Cold War > Influence. Intervention (International law) United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989. United States > Foreign relations > Nicaragua > Case studies. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Intervention (Droit international) États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1945-1989. États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Nicaragua > Études de cas. Diplomatic relations. Human rights > Political aspects. War > Influence. Nicaragua. United States. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.