US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties

This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban revolution.

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Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez is currently working at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais in Lisbon and was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and Fulbrighter at American University and George Washington University. His research centers around the so-called Cultural Cold War. Among his latest publications: Trump. Historia de una presidencia singular (2022).

Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla is Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC). He has worked on Euro-Atlantic relations during the Cold War, especially public diplomacy and cultural, educational, and scientific transfers. Among his recent publications: Teaching Modernization. Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War (2020).

Benedetta Calandra is Associate Professor of History of the Americas at the University of Bergamo. Her main research interests focus on the politics of memory and exile in Latin America and Inter-American cultural Cold War. Among her recent publications: Cultural Philanthropy and Political Exile. The Ford Foundation Between Argentina and the United States (2019).

Inhalt

1. US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America in Recent Historiographical Debates

Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez

Benedetta Calandra

Lorenzo Delgaso Gómez-Escalonilla

2. Modernizing Latin America! Cuban Revolution, Alliance for Progress and Development Decade

Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla

3. U.S. Public Diplomacy Responses to Anti-Americanism in 1960s Latin America

Alan McPherson

4. US Public Diplomacy in Latin America: The Regional Quest for Reputational Security, 19171968

Nicholas J. Cull

5. The Cost of Freedom: The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America

Patrick Iber

6. Development by the Book: U.S. Book Diplomacy and the Latin American Cultural Cold War

Andrés Sánchez-Padilla

7. Exploring the Liberal Transformation: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Green Revolution in Chile

Fernando Quesada

Benedetta Calandra

8. Sports in the Anti-Cuban Diplomacy of the US: The Example of the Regional Games of San Juan, 1966

André Gounot

9. Political Partnering: The Dance of United States Diplomacy in Latin America

Victoria Phillips

Conor Lane

10. Dancing across the Sugar Curtain: Choreographing Critiques of the United States in Cuba

Elizabeth Schwall

11. "America Leads Materially. Why Not Culturally?" US Fine Arts in Brazil, 19481978

Símele Soares Rodrigues

12. Perceptions and Misperceptions in Interamerican Relations

Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez