Books by Kathryn A. Sikkink

Sikkink traces the effects of one enormously influential set of ideas, developmentalism, on the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Argentina.

"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity-human rights and anticommunism-come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole...