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Summary:

"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 National Liberation Front (1979-1990), as the case study."-- [Provided by publisher]

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.

Author/Creator:

Schmidli, William Michael, 1979- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Freedom on the offensive: human rights, democracy promotion, and US interventionism in the late Cold War [by Schmidli, W.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Freedom on the offensive [by Schmidli, W.M.] (Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 — ISBN 9781501765148; LCCN 2021057943)

Related 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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource and print record; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

JC571 .S3695 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781501765162 (electronic book)
1501765167 (electronic book)
9781501765179 (electronic book)
1501765175 (electronic book)
9781501765148 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021057944

OCLC Numbers:

1305016871

Other Control Numbers:

3117795 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302745431