Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: van den Berk, Jorrit (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: America-History.; Military history.; World War, 1939-1945.; World politics.; International relations.; History of the Americas.; History of Military.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Political History.; Foreign Policy.

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 comple...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.