US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties
Time for Persuasion
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US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties
Time for Persuasion
About this book
This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution.
The implicit mandate was "No more Cubas" so that what happened in the Caribbean country would not spread to other countries. The actions of the United States toward its southern neighbors in the first half of the twentieth century are quite well known. In contrast, Latin American scenarios of the Cultural Cold War have remained relatively less well known. The contributors and editors of this volume examine various facets and means of action used by the "US machinery of persuasion" with the aim of disseminating the virtues of its socioeconomic and political model, including both public and private efforts, and the significance of nonstate actors. Subjects examined include the impact of the theory of modernization; anti-Americanism; the deployment of public diplomacy in the region; the activities of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Rockefeller Foundation; and the influence of these efforts on sporting, artistic, and musical events.
This volume will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in Latin American history and history of the Americas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Prologue
- 1 US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America in recent historiographical debates
- 2 Modernizing Latin America! Cuban Revolution, Alliance for Progress, and Development Decade
- 3 US public diplomacy responses to anti-Americanism in 1960s Latin America
- 4 US public diplomacy in Latin America: The regional quest for reputational security, 1917–68
- 5 The cost of freedom: The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America
- 6 Development by the book: US book diplomacy and the Latin American cultural Cold War
- 7 Exploring the liberal transformation: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Green Revolution in Chile
- 8 Sports in the anti-Cuban diplomacy of the United States: The example of the regional games of San Juan, 1966
- 9 Political partnering: The Dance of US diplomacy in Latin America
- 10 Dancing across the sugar curtain: Choreographing critiques of the United States in Cuba
- 11 “America leads materially. Why not culturally?”: US fine arts in Brazil, 1948–78
- 12 Perceptions and misperceptions in inter-American relations
- About the Contributors
- Index