LEADER 04814nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910814891403321 005 20230803031221.0 010 $a0-8014-6962-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469626 035 $a(CKB)2670000000417692 035 $a(OCoLC)855955067 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10738659 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950090 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11513221 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950090 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11003906 035 $a(PQKB)10080263 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001505778 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138501 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28924 035 $a(DE-B1597)478411 035 $a(OCoLC)979910362 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138501 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10738659 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683537 035 $a(OCoLC)922998424 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000417692 100 $a20130205d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fate of freedom elsewhere$b[electronic resource] $ehuman rights and U.S. Cold War policy toward Argentina /$fWilliam Michael Schmidli 210 $aIthaca, NY $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-52255-3 311 0 $a0-8014-5196-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Human Rights and the Cold War --$t1. From Counterinsurgency to State-Sanctioned Terror: Waging the Cold War in Latin America --$t2. The "Third World War": U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1960-1976 --$t3. "Human Rights Is Suddenly Chic": The Rise of The Movement, 1970-1976 --$t4. "Total Immersion in All the Horrors of the World": The Carter Administration and Human Rights, 1977-1978 --$t5. On the Offensive: Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1978-1979 --$t6. "Tilting against Gray-Flannel Windmills": U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1979-1980 --$tConclusion: Carter, Reagan, and the Human Rights Revolution --$tAbbreviations Used in the Notes --$tNotes --$tPrimary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aDuring the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to protect U.S. national security, American policymakers quietly cultivated relations with politically ambitious Latin American militaries-a strategy clearly evident in the Ford administration's tacit support of state-sanctioned terror in Argentina following the 1976 military coup d'état. By the mid-1970's, however, the blossoming human rights movement in the United States posed a serious threat to the maintenance of close U.S. ties to anticommunist, right-wing military regimes. The competition between cold warriors and human rights advocates culminated in a fierce struggle to define U.S. policy during the Jimmy Carter presidency. In The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere, William Michael Schmidli argues that Argentina emerged as the defining test case of Carter's promise to bring human rights to the center of his administration's foreign policy. Entering the Oval Office at the height of the kidnapping, torture, and murder of tens of thousands of Argentines by the military government, Carter set out to dramatically shift U.S. policy from subtle support to public condemnation of human rights violation. But could the administration elicit human rights improvements in the face of a zealous military dictatorship, rising Cold War tension, and domestic political opposition? By grappling with the disparate actors engaged in the struggle over human rights, including civil rights activists, second-wave feminists, Chicano/a activists, religious progressives, members of the New Right, conservative cold warriors, and business leaders, Schmidli utilizes unique interviews with U.S. and Argentine actors as well as newly declassified archives to offer a telling analysis of the rise, efficacy, and limits of human rights in shaping U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War. 606 $aHuman rights$zArgentina 606 $aHuman rights$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zArgentina 607 $aArgentina$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aHuman rights$xGovernment policy 676 $a327.73082 700 $aSchmidli$b William Michael$f1979-$01594350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814891403321 996 $aThe fate of freedom elsewhere$93914863 997 $aUNINA