Suchergebnisse

AbstractIn the 1930s and 1940s, personal diplomacy by U.S. presidents was still in its infancy, but it was central to the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America. To overcome years of mistrust, U.S. presidents, both at home and abroad, tried to personally convince their Latin American counterparts of their sincerity for more equitable relations. This article examines how Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and especially Franklin Roosevelt used leader‐to‐leader diplomacy to change perceptions of the United States in Latin America and usher in a new era in hemispheric relations. The diplomacy of the Good Neighbor policy also had implications for the presidency, as it foreshadowed what would become standard practice for modern presidents.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Pull of Personal Diplomacy -- 1. FDR's Wide-Ranging Personal Diplomacy -- 2. Truman, Eisenhower, and the Retreat and Resurgence of Personal Diplomacy -- 3. John F. Kennedy and the President as Counselor -- 4. Lyndon Johnson and the Imperatives of the International Arena -- 5. Richard Nixon and the Domestic Politics of Personal Diplomacy -- 6. Jimmy Carter and the Demand for Presidential Time -- 7. Ronald Regan and the Desire for Control -- 8. George H. W. Bush and Personal Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War -- 9. The Impact of Presidential Personal Diplomacy -- Conclusion: Presidential Personal Diplomacy-Past, Present, Future -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Front cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Fact Givers or Fact Makers? -- 2 From Hawk to Dawk -- 3 Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson and the Intersection between Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations in the Postwar Era -- 4 Religious Pluralism, Domestic Politics, and the Emerging Jewish-Evangelical Coalition on Israel, 1960-1980 -- 5 Subtraction by Addition -- 6 "One Picture May Not Be Worth Ten Thousand Words, but the White House Is Betting It's Worth Ten Thousand Votes" -- 7 Creating an Ethnic Lobby -- 8 Forging Consensus on Vietnamese Reeducation Camp Detainees -- 9 The Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the Plight of the Refuseniks -- 10 Peace through Austerity -- 11 The Domestic Politics of Superpower Rapprochement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.