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Title
Becoming a good neighbor among dictators : the U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras / Jorrit van den Berk.
ISBN
9783319699868 (electronic book)
3319699865 (electronic book)
9783319699851
3319699857
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : color map
Call Number
F1436.8.U6 B465 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.730728
Summary
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.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Coping with the Caudillos
The Envoys: The Foreign Service in Central America, 1930-1952
Origins: The Rise of the Caudillos and the Defeat of Non-Recognition, 1930-1934
Continuismo: The Good Neighbor and Non-interference, 1934-1936
Becoming Benign Dictators: The Good Neighbor and Fascism, 1936-1939
The Best of Neighbors: The Alliance Against Fascism, 1939-1944
The Casualties of War: The Central American Upheavals of 1944
The Postwar Moment: An Opening for Democracy, 1944-1947
The Middle of the Road: The Cold War Comes to Central America, 1947-1954
Becoming a Good Neighbor Among Dictators.
