Freedom on the offensive : human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War /
"A historical analysis of the Ronald Reagan administration's (1981-1989) human rights policy, focusing on the rise of democracy promotion as a US foreign policy priority in the late Cold War, using the US intervention against the revolutionary government of Nicaragua, the Sandinista Nation...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022. |
| Series: | United States in the world.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
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