Principles in power : Latin America and the politics of U.S. human rights diplomacy
Human rights Human rights advocacy United States Latin America Carter Human Rights Diplomacy, Advocates influence on human rights policymaking, Latin American influence on U.S. human rights policy, Congressional Powers in Foreign Policy
Cornell University Press
2021
EISBN 1501752685
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?
'Principles in Power' explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the U.S. government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. The book shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them. By addressing the development of U.S. diplomacy and politics alongside that of activist networks, especially in Chile and Argentina, the text shows that Latin America was central to the policy assumptions that shaped the Carter administration's foreign policy agenda.
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?
'Principles in Power' explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the U.S. government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. The book shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them. By addressing the development of U.S. diplomacy and politics alongside that of activist networks, especially in Chile and Argentina, the text shows that Latin America was central to the policy assumptions that shaped the Carter administration's foreign policy agenda.
