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... the NSA documents. Secondly, I will share testimony on how students' views on US foreign policy have changed. The general consensus at the beginning of the semester is that one of the principal aims of US foreign policy is to promote democracy above all other values. After examining the NSA documents...

... repression, further empowering the apparatus of institutional violence even as it spared selected actors. Participatory research projects like this one can offer victims of human rights abuses abetted by US foreign policy an opportunity to reckon with the records of empire. Not only does this process...

... development in Latin America served the aims of US foreign policy while creating a transnational space for national and local actors to assert their own cultural and political goals. Mark Rice is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York. His forthcoming book...

..., Marilyn Young stayed with it. Recognizing the propensity for war and intervention, she was determined to track it—with her pen, computer, and distinctive voice. Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg is a professor of US foreign policy and history at Hofstra University. She is the author of the prize-winning...

... of Chile's truth and reconciliation process. In February 1999, the president authorized, and his administration initiated, the Chile Declassification Project. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 declassified documents US foreign policy Pinochet Nixon Kissinger CIA...

... a critical capi- talist ally.21 Mirroring its anti-­Cuba and pro-­Haiti foreign policy, the US state has expedited the entry of Cuban refugees, while excluding Haitians. Declaring them “economic migrants” fleeing poverty and not persecution, the US state has claimed that Haitians are not asylum...

... to American imperial ambitions. With narratives justifying US foreign policy as, in essence, an expression of God’s will for the human race, the pocket guides gave meaning to those troops who sought it — which, given Ameri- cans’ generally shallow comprehension of global affairs, was most of them...

... nations and new nations like Israel in delimiting them. The essay then proceeds to examine the historical context of the founding of the US sanctuary movement at another moment of imperial formation: the revival of Cold War foreign policy imperatives during the US-backed “dirty wars” in Central America...

..., “Diplomacy on Display,” features three articles examining twentieth-­century American alliance-­building initiatives that used tourism. Mark Rice focuses on the Good Neighbor foreign policy of the United States in relation to Peru. Rice argues how “tourism development in Latin America served the aims...

... of the National Security Archive’s Chile Declassification Project and one of the foremost experts on US foreign policy toward Chile. Kornbluh’s essay provides a succinct summary of the lessons derived from his years of tireless work to shed light on the US role in destabilizing the Allende government...

... and Class Conflict” ; Kofas, “IMF, the World Bank, and US Foreign Policy” ; García Heras, El Fondo Monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina ; Kedar, “Beginning of a Controversial Relationship” ; Kedar, “Chronicle of an Inconclusive Negotiation.” 50. World Bank, Chile: An Economy...

... emeritus of political science at San Diego State University and author or editor of more than twenty books on Latin American and Chilean history and politics, inter-­American relations, and US foreign policy. 228  Radical History Review Florencia E. Mallon is the Julieta Kirkwood Professor...

... — Jana K. Lipman docu- ments how the changes at Krome demonstrate a shift from early Cold War fears of a nuclear attack to late Cold War fears of black migrants. Lipman shows that Chazkel, Pappademos, and Sotiropoulos | Editors’ Introduction   7 Krome buoyed US foreign policy...

... the stages of the seizure of power by the two regimes, coming to the con- clusion that they were fundamentally simi1ar.l6 Macgregor Knox has compared the relationship between the domestic and foreign policies of the two regimes, coming to the conclusion that both regimes used foreign policy...

..., currently recognized as the New Sanctuary Movement, emerged in direct response to the US foreign policy of that time and continues to protect immigrants in faith-based spaces. This policy backed dictators in the civil wars in Central America, causing thousands of refugees to flee for their safety. 3...

... determination to harness the labor movement to US. foreign policy and to his personal quest for business unionism worldwide. 6. One of the most revealing is in the semi-official ILGWU history, Tailor’s Progress (Garden City: Doubleday, 1944), by Benjamin Stolberg, who recalled with relish that left...

...)—and they helped make US foreign policy iteratively through their activities abroad. Multinational companies have not supplanted the state, as some scholars of globalization profess, nor have they struggled against the state for freedom from all state regulation. Rather, they have sought to shape that regulation...

... States move toward an enlightened and peace-prone foreign policy, rather than one crafted out of the war-prone cobwebs of intuition. Cold War was, above all, a psychological phenomenon, just as total world war had been. While the Cold War presented the US. military with new challenges...

... the country to become a “little America,” and US foreign policy fostered these aspirations. Imagining Turkey becoming a “little America” gave the trip to the United States a dimension of time travel: the tourists did not just visit another country; they experienced Turkey’s possible future...

... for their lives, only to be denied asylum by the US government. Faith communities across the nation came together to house these asylum seekers in their churches and temples, using their positions of moral leadership to expose the violent ruptures of US foreign policy and immigration restrictions. The New...