Latin America Report No. 2518
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1014
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Published: 1906
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Michael Schmidli
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-07-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0801469619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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-1970s, 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.
Author: Pan American Union
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1084
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin D. Moore
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393929652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusics of Latin America explores one of the most musically diverse regions in the world and emphasizes music as a means of understanding culture and society; students will quickly see music as an entry point to understanding historical and political trends. Chapters cover traditional, popular, and classical repertoire, offering direct engagement with the music alongside user-friendly pedagogy.
Author: Gerhard Gerold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 3662082373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoutheast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and provision of high quality wa ter, which cannot be replaced by alternative ecosystems. However, various forms of encroachment, mostly those made by human interventions, seriously threaten the continuance of rainforests in this area. There is ample evidence that the rainforest resources, apart from large scale commercial logging, are exposed to danger particularly from its margin areas. These areas, which are characterized by intensive man-nature interaction, have been identified as extremely fragile systems. The dynamic equilibrium that bal ances human needs and interventions on the one hand, and natural regeneration capacity on the other, is at stake. The decrease of rainforest resources is, to a sub stantial degree, connected with the destabilization of these systems. Accordingly, the search for measures and processes, which prevent destabilization and promote stability is regarded as imperative. This refers to both the human and the natural part of the forest margin ecosystem.
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 356
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