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Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators = The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators/ by Jorrit van den Berk.
Reminder of title:	The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /
Author:	van den Berk, Jorrit.
Description:	XIII, 336 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	America—History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69986-8
ISBN:	9783319699868

Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators = The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /
van den Berk, Jorrit.

Becoming a Good Neighbor among DictatorsThe U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /[electronic resource] :by Jorrit van den Berk. - 1st ed. 2018. - XIII, 336 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.online resource.

1. Coping with the Caudillos -- 2. The Envoys: The Foreign Service in Central America, 1930–1952 -- 3. Origins: The rise of the caudillos and the defeat of non-recognition, 1930–1934 -- 4. Continuismo: The Good Neighbor and non-interference, 1934–1936 -- 5. Becoming Benign Dictators: The Good Neighbor and fascism, 1936–39 -- 6. The Best of Neighbors: The alliance against fascism, 1939–1944 -- 7. The Casualties of War: The Central American upheavals of 1944 -- 8. The Post-War Moment: An opening for democracy, 1944–1947 -- 9. The Middle of the Road: The Cold War comes to Central America, 1947–1954 -- 10. Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators.

Very few works of history, if any, delve into the daily interactions of U.S. Foreign Service members in Latin America during the era of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy. But as Jorrit van den Berk argues, the encounters between these rank-and-file diplomats and local officials reveal the complexities, procedures, intrigues, and shifting alliances that characterized the precarious balance of U.S. foreign relations with right-wing dictatorial regimes. Using accounts from twenty-two ministers and ambassadors, Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators is a careful, sophisticated account of how the U.S. Foreign Service implemented ever-changing State Department directives from the 1930s through the Second World War and early Cold War, and in so doing, transformed the U.S.-Central American relationship. How did Foreign Service officers translate broad policy guidelines into local realities? Could the U.S. fight dictatorships in Europe while simultaneously collaborating with dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras? What role did diplomats play in the standoff between democratic and authoritarian forces? In investigating these questions, Van den Berk draws new conclusions about the political culture of the Foreign Service, its position between Washington policymakers and local actors, and the consequences of foreign intervention.

ISBN: 9783319699868

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-69986-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1255567
America—History.

LC Class. No.: E16-18.85

Dewey Class. No.: 900

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