Competing visions: human rights and American foreign policy in the era of detente, 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.
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.
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