 | Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America Subjects: Human rights -- Latin America; Civil rights -- Latin America; Democracy -- Latin America; Latin America -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Latin America; "Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity--human rights and anticommunism--come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole... Kathryn Sikkink is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina and coauthor with Margaret E. Keck of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics , also from Cornell, winner of the 1999 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. |
