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Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. Walker shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them. By addressing the development of U.S. diplomacy and politics alongside that of activist networks, especially in Chile and Argentina, Walker shows that Latin America was central to the policy assumptions that shaped the Carter administration's foreign policy agenda. The coup that ousted the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, sparked new human rights advocacy as a direct result of U.S. policies that supported authoritarian regimes in the name of Cold War security interests. From 1973 onward, the attention of Washington and capitals around the globe turned to Latin America as the testing ground for the viability of a new paradigm for U.S. power. This approach, oriented around human rights, required collaboration among activists and state officials in places as diverse as Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Washington, DC. Principles in Power tells the complicated story of the potentials and limits of partnership between government and nongovernment actors. Analyzing how different groups deployed human rights language to reform domestic and international power, Walker explores the multiple and often conflicting purposes of U.S. human rights policy.

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Histoire

USA

United States of America

América del Sur

Diplomacy

20th century

South America

History of the Americas

États-Unis

Diplomatie (homonymie)

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 décembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501752698
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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PRINCIPLES IN POWER

A volume in the series

The United States in the World Founded by Mark Philip Bradley and Paul A. Kramer

Edited by Benjamin Coates, Emily ConroyKrutz, Paul A. Kramer, and Judy TzuChun Wu

A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

PRINCIPLES IN POWER

Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy

Vanessa Walker

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Walker, Vanessa, 1978– author. Title: Principles in power : Latin America and the politics of U.S. human rights diplomacy / Vanessa Walker. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The United States in the world | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2020017808 (print) | LCCN 2020017809 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501713682 (cloth) | ISBN 9781501752681 (epub) | ISBN 9781501752698 (pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Human rights—Government policy—United States— History—20th century. | Human rights—Latin America—History— 20th century. | Human rights advocacy—United States—History—20th century. | United States—Foreign relations—Latin America. | Latin America—Foreign relations—United States. | United States—Foreign relations—1945–1989. Classiﬁcation: LCC JC599.U5 W285 2020 (print) |LCC JC599.U5 (ebook) | DDC 323.098—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020017808 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020017809

Cover photographs:Top, on August 30, 1977, President Jimmy Carter met with civic leaders from Georgia and Florida at the White House to explain his new Panama Canal treaty. On August 12, 2015, Carter announced he had cancer and would undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges);bottom, Demonstrators protest the killing of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier during a rally in Washington, DC, September 26, 1976. Letelier and Ronni Karpen Mofﬁtt were killed in a car bombing. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

For Adi

If human rights is to be a central factor in the policy debate, the signiﬁcance of nongovernmental bodies is absolutely essential. I think the important thing to say about states and about human rights is that the action of states should neither be underestimated or overestimated. They should not be un derestimated; you cannot ignore them in the struggle for human rights, what they do will count for good or ill. But the signiﬁcance of states should not be overestimated. Our faith in the State is always tenuous, and rightly so. Our faith in the modern bureaucratic state should be fragilely placed. They need to be contained, restrained, pressured, shaped and directed from the outside. . . . What we try to do when we attempt to impose human rights criteria on other forms of power—political, economic, military—in the for eign policy equation, is we seek to use the very fragile instrument of moral suasion, the fabric of moral sinew, to control and contain the power of the modern state. —Father J. Bryan Hehir, Seventh Annual LetelierMofﬁtt MemorialHuman Rights Award Ceremony, September 20, 1983

Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Complicity

1. The Chilean Catalyst: Cold War Allies and Human Rights in the Western Hemisphere 2. Words Are Not Enough: Building a Human Rights Agenda in the Shadow of the Past 3. A Special Responsibility: Human Rights and U.S.Chilean Relations 4. Weighing the Costs: Human Rights and U.S.Argentine Relations 5. The Reagan Reinvention: A Cold War Human Rights Vision Conclusion: The Golden Years of Human Rights?

Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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62 112 154 205 249

255 259 323 335

ADA AFDD

List of Abbreviations

AI Asamblea

CALA CASP CCC CELS

CIA CLC CNFMP CNI

Americans for Democratic Action Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Deseparicidos (Association of Relatives of the Detained – Disappeared) Amnesty International Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights) Community Action on Latin America Country Analysis Strategy Plan Commodity Credit Corporation Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (The Center for Social and Legal Studies) Central Intelligence Agency Clergy and Laity Concerned Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Centro Nacional de Información (National Information Center)

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