Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators: The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras

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Very few works of history, if any, delve into the day by day interactions of U.S. Foreign Service members in Latin The us right through the era of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy. But as Jorrit van den Berk argues, the encounters between these rank-and-file diplomats and local officials reveal the complexities, procedures, intrigues, and shifting alliances that characterized the precarious balance of U.S. foreign relations with right-wing dictatorial regimes. The usage of accounts from twenty-two ministers and ambassadors, Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators is a careful, sophisticated account of how the U.S. Foreign Service implemented ever-changing State Department directives from the 1930s throughout the Second World War and early Cold War, and in so doing, transformed the U.S.-Central American relationship.  How did Foreign Service officers translate broad policy guidelines into local realities? Could the U.S. fight dictatorships in Europe whilst concurrently collaborating with dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras?  What role did diplomats play within the standoff between democratic and authoritarian forces? In investigating these questions, Van den Berk draws new conclusions concerning the political culture of the Foreign Service, its position between Washington policymakers and local actors, and the results of foreign intervention.

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