{"product_id":"mixed-signals-u-s-human-rights-policy-and-latin-america-paperback","title":"Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathryn Sikkink\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity--human rights and anticommunism--come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole. It required policy makers to choose between policies designed to defeat communism at any cost and those that remain within the bounds of the rule of law.\"--from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Sikkink believes that the adoption of human rights policy represents a positive change in the relationship between the United States and Latin America. In \u003ci\u003eMixed Signals\u003c\/i\u003e she traces a gradual but remarkable shift in U.S. foreign policy over the last generation. By the 1970s, an unthinking anticommunist stance had tarnished the reputation of the U.S. government throughout Latin America, associating Washington with tyrannical and often brutally murderous regimes. Sikkink recounts the reemergence of human rights as a substantive concern, showing how external pressures from activist groups and the institution of a human rights bureau inside the State Department have combined to remake Washington's agenda, and its image, in Latin America. The current war against terrorism, Sikkink warns, could repeat the mistakes of the past unless we insist that the struggle against terrorism be conducted with respect for human rights and the rule of law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Sikkink is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIdeas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor with Margaret E. Keck of \u003ci\u003eActivists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Cornell, winner of the 1999 Grawemeyer Award for \u003ci\u003eIdeas Improving World Order.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.92 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451704295602,"sku":"9780801474194","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1518fcd318ed1f27111a8e2ab130009b.webp?v=1778799295","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mixed-signals-u-s-human-rights-policy-and-latin-america-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}