New Publication: ‘Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War’

CWRN member William Michael Schmidli (Leiden University) wrote a new book, titled: Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War (Cornell University Press). The book argues that democracy promotion by the Reagan administration was used to ‘refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus’ which had disintegrated in the late 1960s due to opposition to the Vietnam War. The book centers democracy promotion as a key component of America’s human rights agenda and foreign relation in the late 20th century.

You can find the book here.