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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators
    sub title: The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras
  name:
    name part: van den Berk, Jorrit.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 336 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Very few works of history, if any, delve into the daily interactions of U.S. Foreign Service members in Latin America during the era of Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy. But as Jorrit van den Berk argues, the encounters between these rank-and-file diplomats and local officials reveal the complexities, procedures, intrigues, and shifting alliances that characterized the precarious balance of U.S. foreign relations with right-wing dictatorial regimes. Using accounts from twenty-two ministers and ambassadors, Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators is a careful, sophisticated account of how the U.S. Foreign Service implemented ever-changing State Department directives from the 1930s through the Second World War and early Cold War, and in so doing, transformed the U.S.-Central American relationship. How did Foreign Service officers translate broad policy guidelines into local realities? Could the U.S. fight dictatorships in Europe while simultaneously collaborating with dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras? What role did diplomats play in the standoff between democratic and authoritarian forces? In investigating these questions, Van den Berk draws new conclusions about the political culture of the Foreign Service, its position between Washington policymakers and local actors, and the consequences of foreign intervention.
  table of contents: 1. Coping with the Caudillos -- 2. The Envoys: The Foreign Service in Central America, 1930-1952 -- 3. Origins: The rise of the caudillos and the defeat of non-recognition, 1930-1934 -- 4. Continuismo: The Good Neighbor and non-interference, 1934-1936 -- 5. Becoming Benign Dictators: The Good Neighbor and fascism, 1936-39 -- 6. The Best of Neighbors: The alliance against fascism, 1939-1944 -- 7. The Casualties of War: The Central American upheavals of 1944 -- 8. The Post-War Moment: An opening for democracy, 1944-1947 -- 9. The Middle of the Road: The Cold War comes to Central America, 1947-1954 -- 10. Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators.
  note: by Jorrit van den Berk.
  subject:
    topic: America-History
  subject:
    topic: Military history
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: History of the Americas
  subject:
    topic: History of Military
  subject:
    topic: History of World War II and the Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Foreign Policy
  classification: E16-18.85
  classification: 900
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319699868
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69986-8
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    record creation date: 171229
    record change date: 20191025211606.0
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