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The role of human rights in United States policy toward Latin America is the subject of this study. It covers the early sixties to 1980, a period when humanitarian values came to play an important role in determining United States foreign policy. The author is concerned both with explaining why these values came to impinge on government decision making and how internal bureaucratic processes affected the specific content of United States policy.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Civil rights -- Latin America. --- Human rights -- Latin America. --- Latin America -- Relations -- United States. --- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. --- United States -- Relations -- Latin America. --- Civil rights --- Human rights --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Relations --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 1945-1989

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In this book, Lars Schoultz explores the culture of "improvement" that defines the attitudes and values shaping all United States policies towards Latin America in the past and present. Schoultz's aim is to find the sources of this political and intellectual culture which has informed our relations with our southern neighbors and which continues to do so despite its faulty premises and its failure to effect change and transformation. Schoultz focuses on two period in the past as critical to embedding the culture and policies of improvement: the Progressive Era, which established the belief in "uplifting" others for their betterment, and the Cold War Era, which established the institutions for sustaining and implementing the process of uplifting a people and state. In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans is a powerful historical indictment of a "constellation of beliefs" that has been a central part of Washington's foreign policy establishment and culture. The notion that the United States knows better than its allies and neighbors what is best for each of them resonates beyond Latin America and underlies much of the United States' foreign policies around the world.--

Politicians --- Economic assistance, American --- Progressivism (United States politics) --- Attitudes. --- History. --- United States --- Latin America --- Foreign relations --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Central America. --- Chile. --- Cuba. --- Dominican Republic. --- Foreign aid. --- Good Neighbor policy. --- Latin American economy. --- Latin American politics. --- Mexico. --- U.S. investments in Latin America. --- USAID. --- military assistance in Latin America.