William Michael Schmidli
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Michael Schmidli |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidli |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDLI W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human Rights Activism in the “Torture Chamber of Latin America”
Journal Article Human Rights Activism in the "Torture Chamber of Latin America" Get access Debbie Sharnak. Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 352 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). William Michael Schmidli William Michael Schmidli [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History,…
The Late Cultural Cold War
A few days before the Thanksgiving holiday in 1983, nearly half of U.S. households with television sets—more than 100 million viewers—tuned in to watch the obliteration of Lawrence, Kansas in a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. A made-for-TV movie that aired primetime on ABC, The Day After climaxed with fictional footage of the bombs bursting in air: a grinding four-minute segment replete with a trio of mushroom clouds towering over humans …
Rockin’ to Free the World
Mark Philip Bradley. The World Reimagined
Blending cultural analysis with diplomatic and international history, Mark Philip Bradley makes a signal contribution to an increasingly crowded field of scholarship analyzing human rights in recent U.S. history. The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century is a brilliantly interdisciplinary study of the role of non-state actors engaged in human rights advocacy in the 1940s and the 1970s. Human rights “amateurs,” Brad…
Barbara J. Keys. Reclaiming American Virtue
Amid a growing body of scholarship on the history of human rights, Barbara J. Keys makes an important contribution with this deeply researched study. Echoing the recent emphasis among historians on human rights as contingent and rooted in political contestation, rather than a natural expression of universal morality, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s advances our understanding of how human rights moved to the ce…
The Human Rights Revolution
The Most Sophisticated Intervention We Have Seen”
In May 1977, in a public forum, President Jimmy Carter laid out the foundations of a distinctive foreign policy programme for the United States. He offered a striking shift away from the Cold War realpolitik of previous American administrations. Human rights, he declared, would be a central component of United States foreign policy. The growing instability in Central America, especially in Nicaragua, during Carter's term of office provided a majo…
Institutionalizing Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
This article examines U.S.-Argentine relations during the period of military dictatorship (1976–1983). I argue that during the Gerald R. Ford administration, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's subtle support for the Argentine military junta—despite widespread state-sanctioned violence against perceived subversives—was a continuation of a historical process rooted in the early years of the Cold War: U.S. support for anticommunist Latin American …
Human rights and the Cold War
In the late 1960s and 1970s, internationally-focused human rights groups in the United States worked to raise public awareness and generate popular opprobrium of repressive regimes overseas, and lobbied policymakers for more stringent congressional control over foreign aid funding to regimes violating human rights. By the mid-1970s, non-governmental human rights advocates and their sympathisers in Congress had created a strong grassroots base, es…
The Most Sophisticated Intervention We Have Seen”
In May 1977, in a public forum, President Jimmy Carter laid out the foundations of a distinctive foreign policy programme for the United States. He offered a striking shift away from the Cold War realpolitik of previous American administrations. Human rights, he declared, would be a central component of United States foreign policy. The growing instability in Central America, especially in Nicaragua, during Carter's term of office provided a majo…
Human rights and the Cold War
In the late 1960s and 1970s, internationally-focused human rights groups in the United States worked to raise public awareness and generate popular opprobrium of repressive regimes overseas, and lobbied policymakers for more stringent congressional control over foreign aid funding to regimes violating human rights. By the mid-1970s, non-governmental human rights advocates and their sympathisers in Congress had created a strong grassroots base, es…
Institutionalizing Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
This article examines U.S.-Argentine relations during the period of military dictatorship (1976–1983). I argue that during the Gerald R. Ford administration, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's subtle support for the Argentine military junta—despite widespread state-sanctioned violence against perceived subversives—was a continuation of a historical process rooted in the early years of the Cold War: U.S. support for anticommunist Latin American …
Human rights and the Cold War
In the late 1960s and 1970s, internationally-focused human rights groups in the United States worked to raise public awareness and generate popular opprobrium of repressive regimes overseas, and lobbied policymakers for more stringent congressional control over foreign aid funding to regimes violating human rights. By the mid-1970s, non-governmental human rights advocates and their sympathisers in Congress had created a strong grassroots base, es…
The Most Sophisticated Intervention We Have Seen”
In May 1977, in a public forum, President Jimmy Carter laid out the foundations of a distinctive foreign policy programme for the United States. He offered a striking shift away from the Cold War realpolitik of previous American administrations. Human rights, he declared, would be a central component of United States foreign policy. The growing instability in Central America, especially in Nicaragua, during Carter's term of office provided a majo…
The Human Rights Revolution
Barbara J. Keys. Reclaiming American Virtue
Amid a growing body of scholarship on the history of human rights, Barbara J. Keys makes an important contribution with this deeply researched study. Echoing the recent emphasis among historians on human rights as contingent and rooted in political contestation, rather than a natural expression of universal morality, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s advances our understanding of how human rights moved to the ce…
Mark Philip Bradley. The World Reimagined
Blending cultural analysis with diplomatic and international history, Mark Philip Bradley makes a signal contribution to an increasingly crowded field of scholarship analyzing human rights in recent U.S. history. The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century is a brilliantly interdisciplinary study of the role of non-state actors engaged in human rights advocacy in the 1940s and the 1970s. Human rights “amateurs,” Brad…
Rockin’ to Free the World
The Late Cultural Cold War
A few days before the Thanksgiving holiday in 1983, nearly half of U.S. households with television sets—more than 100 million viewers—tuned in to watch the obliteration of Lawrence, Kansas in a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. A made-for-TV movie that aired primetime on ABC, The Day After climaxed with fictional footage of the bombs bursting in air: a grinding four-minute segment replete with a trio of mushroom clouds towering over humans …
Human Rights Activism in the “Torture Chamber of Latin America”
Journal Article Human Rights Activism in the "Torture Chamber of Latin America" Get access Debbie Sharnak. Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 352 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). William Michael Schmidli William Michael Schmidli [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History,…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cold war (3 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Foreign policy (3 works)