The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America by Laurienti, Jerry

The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275999384)

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The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America by Laurienti, Jerry

The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America

$70.00
The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America by Laurienti, Jerry

The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America

$70.00
Format: Hardcover
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Many years before the U.S. military had to deal with the repercussions of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the U.S. armed forces were vigorously engaged in helping their Latin American counterparts to recognize the strategic imperatives of respecting human rights on the battlefield. Before Iraqi accusations of massacre at Haditha forced the U.S. military to again scramble to defend its honor and reputation, U.S. forces in Latin America were more than a decade into repairing their image after taking the blame for numerous human rights crises. Indeed, U.S. military relations with Latin America are at the center of numerous academic and policy debates, particularly regarding U.S. military assistance and its impact on human rights and broader democratic development. Until now, however, no book has focused on determining whether the U.S. military could serve as a primary source of human rights promotion. Meanwhile, U.S. military human rights promotion efforts in Latin America have become central to the Department of Defense Strategic Engagement Plan since the end of the Cold War.

The significant role of the U.S. military in promoting human rights around Latin America is unmatched by U.S. military efforts anywhere in the world. This book documents an approach to human rights that could become a model for Department of Defense strategy and behavior around the world. Perhaps the most important finding of this book is that the true heroes on the human rights front are not civilians, but U.S. military officials, a conclusion that is too often ignored by activists, missed by scholars, and would have been unthinkable only a decade ago.

Author: Jerry Laurienti
ISBN-10: 0275999386
ISBN-13: 9780275999384
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2007
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.38w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 293
Multicultural Review 06/01/2008 pg. 71
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1235
By Jerry Laurienti
By Jerry Laurienti
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Jerry M. Laurienti works as a Latin America analyst for the U.S. government and writes frequently for top policymakers. He has traveled extensively in the region, where he conducted research for this book. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies.

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