Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (A Century Foundation Book) - Tapa blanda

Sikkink, Kathryn

 
9780801474194: Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (A Century Foundation Book)
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ISBN 10: 0801474191 ISBN 13: 9780801474194
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2007

Sinopsis

"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity―human rights and anticommunism―come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole. It required policy makers to choose between policies designed to defeat communism at any cost and those that remain within the bounds of the rule of law."―from the Introduction

Kathryn Sikkink believes that the adoption of human rights policy represents a positive change in the relationship between the United States and Latin America. In Mixed Signals she traces a gradual but remarkable shift in U.S. foreign policy over the last generation. By the 1970s, an unthinking anticommunist stance had tarnished the reputation of the U.S. government throughout Latin America, associating Washington with tyrannical and often brutally murderous regimes. Sikkink recounts the reemergence of human rights as a substantive concern, showing how external pressures from activist groups and the institution of a human rights bureau inside the State Department have combined to remake Washington's agenda, and its image, in Latin America. The current war against terrorism, Sikkink warns, could repeat the mistakes of the past unless we insist that the struggle against terrorism be conducted with respect for human rights and the rule of law.

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Acerca del autor

Kathryn Sikkink is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina and coauthor with Margaret E. Keck of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, also from Cornell, winner of the 1999 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

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Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
0801474191
ISBN 13 
9780801474194
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Número de páginas
282
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9780801442704: Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America (A Century Foundation Book)

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ISBN 10:  0801442702 ISBN 13:  9780801442704
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