Author: Mary Dutcher
Publisher:
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Category : Atrocities
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Nicaragua, the Human Tragedy of the War, April-June, 1986
Author: Mary Dutcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atrocities
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atrocities
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Freedom on the Offensive
Author: William Michael Schmidli
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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 had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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 had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Nicaragua
Author: Catholic Institute for International Relations
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Right to Survive
Author: Catholic Institute for International Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Nicaragua
Author: Ralph Lee Woodward
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Annotation. An annotated bibliography of publications dealing with all aspects of Nicaragua's past and present. Sections on history, politics, foreign relations, and the economy cover the country's progress from colonial domination to the present. Includes a substantial number of publications on the country which appeared in the 1980s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Annotation. An annotated bibliography of publications dealing with all aspects of Nicaragua's past and present. Sections on history, politics, foreign relations, and the economy cover the country's progress from colonial domination to the present. Includes a substantial number of publications on the country which appeared in the 1980s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Nicaragua, the Contra Human Rights Record July-December, 1986
Author: Comisión Nacional de Promoción y Protección de los Derechos Humanos (Nicaragua)
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
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Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Books in Print
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
The Death of Ben Linder
Author: Joan Kruckewitt
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. In 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. In 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.
Update Latin America
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description