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197Notes INTRODUCTION 1. For lack of a better alternative, “Americans” refers to people from the United States; “Latin Americans” to those living south of the U.S.-Mexico border. 2. The terms “global South” and “Third World” are used interchangeably to indicate political and economic underdevelopment rather than nonalignment. 3. Jimmy Carter, inaugural address, January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter Library, http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/documents/speeches/inaugadd.phtml. 4. Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 143. 5. Luis Alberto Romero, A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 144. 6. Similarly, Amnesty International placed the number of disappeared at twenty thou-sand in March 1977. DoS memo of conversation, November 21, 1977, subject: “Human Rights Situation in Argentina,” ADP. 7. Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (Philadel-phia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 134. 8. Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), 31. 9. “Nixon Urges U.S. to Alter Latin Policy,” WP, May 16, 1967, A12. 10. DoS memo of conversation, October 7, 1976, subject: “Secretary’s Meeting with Argentine Foreign Minister Guzzetti,” NSA, Electronic Briefing Book 104, Carlos Osorio, ed., posted December 4, 2003 at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm 11. DoS memo, John Bushnell to Patricia Derian, June 13, 1978, subject: “Commentary on Cutler-Hammer Letter,” box 13, folder: Human Rights—Argentina III, Christopher Papers. 12. For a useful historiographical overview, see Kenneth Cmiel, “The Recent History of Human Rights,” American Historical Review 1, no. 1 (2004): 117–135. For more recent historical scholarship on human rights, see, for example, Roland Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: University of Penn-sylvania Press, 2010); Rosemary Foote, “The Cold War and Human Rights,” in The Cam-bridge History of the Cold War, vol. 3, Endings , ed. Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 445–465; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, and William I. Hitchcock, eds., The Human Rights Revolu-tion: An International History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Michael Cotey Morgan, “The Seventies and the Rebirth of Human Rights,” in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010): 237–250; Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). For recent scholarship on human rights in U.S. foreign policy, see, for example, Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
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197Notes INTRODUCTION 1. For lack of a better alternative, “Americans” refers to people from the United States; “Latin Americans” to those living south of the U.S.-Mexico border. 2. The terms “global South” and “Third World” are used interchangeably to indicate political and economic underdevelopment rather than nonalignment. 3. Jimmy Carter, inaugural address, January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter Library, http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/documents/speeches/inaugadd.phtml. 4. Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 143. 5. Luis Alberto Romero, A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 144. 6. Similarly, Amnesty International placed the number of disappeared at twenty thou-sand in March 1977. DoS memo of conversation, November 21, 1977, subject: “Human Rights Situation in Argentina,” ADP. 7. Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (Philadel-phia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 134. 8. Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), 31. 9. “Nixon Urges U.S. to Alter Latin Policy,” WP, May 16, 1967, A12. 10. DoS memo of conversation, October 7, 1976, subject: “Secretary’s Meeting with Argentine Foreign Minister Guzzetti,” NSA, Electronic Briefing Book 104, Carlos Osorio, ed., posted December 4, 2003 at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm 11. DoS memo, John Bushnell to Patricia Derian, June 13, 1978, subject: “Commentary on Cutler-Hammer Letter,” box 13, folder: Human Rights—Argentina III, Christopher Papers. 12. For a useful historiographical overview, see Kenneth Cmiel, “The Recent History of Human Rights,” American Historical Review 1, no. 1 (2004): 117–135. For more recent historical scholarship on human rights, see, for example, Roland Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, 1st ed. (Philadelphia: University of Penn-sylvania Press, 2010); Rosemary Foote, “The Cold War and Human Rights,” in The Cam-bridge History of the Cold War, vol. 3, Endings , ed. Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 445–465; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, and William I. Hitchcock, eds., The Human Rights Revolu-tion: An International History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Michael Cotey Morgan, “The Seventies and the Rebirth of Human Rights,” in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010): 237–250; Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). For recent scholarship on human rights in U.S. foreign policy, see, for example, Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Abbreviations xiii
  5. Introduction: Human Rights and the Cold War 1
  6. 1. From Counterinsurgency to State-Sanctioned Terror: Waging the Cold War in Latin America 8
  7. 2. The “Third World War”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1960–1976 29
  8. 3. “Human Rights Is Suddenly Chic”: The Rise of The Movement, 1970–1976 56
  9. 4. “Total Immersion in All the Horrors of the World”: The Carter Administration and Human Rights, 1977–1978 83
  10. 5. On the Offensive: Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1978–1979 120
  11. 6. “Tilting against Gray-Flannel Windmills”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1979–1980 156
  12. Conclusion: Carter, Reagan, and the Human Rights Revolution 182
  13. Abbreviations Used in the Notes 195
  14. Notes 197
  15. Primary Sources 245
  16. Index 247
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Abbreviations xiii
  5. Introduction: Human Rights and the Cold War 1
  6. 1. From Counterinsurgency to State-Sanctioned Terror: Waging the Cold War in Latin America 8
  7. 2. The “Third World War”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1960–1976 29
  8. 3. “Human Rights Is Suddenly Chic”: The Rise of The Movement, 1970–1976 56
  9. 4. “Total Immersion in All the Horrors of the World”: The Carter Administration and Human Rights, 1977–1978 83
  10. 5. On the Offensive: Human Rights in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1978–1979 120
  11. 6. “Tilting against Gray-Flannel Windmills”: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1979–1980 156
  12. Conclusion: Carter, Reagan, and the Human Rights Revolution 182
  13. Abbreviations Used in the Notes 195
  14. Notes 197
  15. Primary Sources 245
  16. Index 247
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