Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and Us Interventionism in the Late Cold War

by William Michael Schmidli

In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501765140
• ISBN13: 9781501765148
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"