Nicaragua Must Survive (eBook)

Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War

Eline van Ommen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39077-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of musicians, politicians, teachers, activists, priests, feminists, and journalists flocked to the country to experience the revolution firsthand. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Eline van Ommen reveals the role that Western Europe played in Nicaragua's revolutionary diplomacy. Blending grassroots organizing and formal foreign policy, pragmatic guerrillas, creative diplomats, and ambitious activists from Europe and the Americas were able to create an international environment in which the Sandinista Revolution could survive despite the odds. Nicaragua Must Survive argues that this diplomacy was remarkably effective, propelling Nicaragua into the global limelight and allowing the revolutionaries to successfully challenge the United States' role in Central America.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
List of Abbreviations 

Introduction 
1 • Internationalizing Struggle, 1977–1979 
2 • Triumph and Consolidation, 1979–1980 
3 • The Revolution under Attack, 1981–1982 
4 • Creative Defense, 1983–1984 
5 • Fundraising for the Revolution, 1985–1986 
6 • Peace and Elections, 1987–1990 
Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Violence in Latin American History
• Reihe/Serie: Violence in Latin American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 70s • 80s • Anticommunism • Central America • Central American Peace Concert • cold war politics • Daniel Ortega • Diplomacy • foreign policy • FSLN • grassroots organizing • history of nicaraguan revolution • Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign • Peace Process • Reagan • Transnational actors
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39077-6 / 0520390776
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39077-5 / 9780520390775