The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere : Human Rights and U. S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina.
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The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Human Rights and the Cold War -- 1. From Counterinsurgency to State-Sanctioned Terror: Waging the Cold War in Latin America -- 2. The "Third World War": U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1960-1976 -- 3. "Human Rights Is Suddenly Chic": The Rise of The Movement,1970-1976 -- 4. "Total Immersion in All the Horrors of the World": The Carter Administration and Human Rights, 1977-1978 -- 5. On the Offensive: Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1978-1979 -- 6. "Tilting against Gray-Flannel Windmills": U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1979-1980 -- Conclusion: Carter, Reagan, and the Human Rights Revolution -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index.
William Michael Schmidli argues that Argentina emerged as the defining test case of Jimmy Carter's promise to bring human rights to the center of his administration's foreign policy.
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Human rights -- Argentina. Human rights -- Government policy -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations -- Argentina. Argentina -- Foreign relations -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.