{"product_id":"nicaragua-must-survive-sandinista-revolutionary-diplomacy-in-the-global-cold-war-volume-8-paperback","title":"Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War Volume 8 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEline Van Ommen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicaragua Must Survive\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNicaragua Must Survive \u003c\/i\u003eargues 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to extraordinary multilingual, multicountry research, Eline van Ommen recasts the international story of the Sandinistas of the 1970s and 1980s by decentering the United States. It turns out that Western European diplomats and activists played outsized roles in keeping the leftist revolution legitimate and alive against a U.S.-led military and propaganda onslaught. Sandinistas, creative and pragmatic in using Europeans as leverage, emerge from this gripping narrative as full actors in their own diplomatic saga. \u003ci\u003eNicaragua Must Survive\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of historical sleuthing and storytelling.--Alan McPherson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eNicaragua Must Survive\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground in the history of the Sandinista Revolution and the Cold War. By transcending the traditional divide between histories of Latin America and Europe, van Ommen has written one of the most innovative and important works of international and transnational scholarship in recent memory.\"--Renata Keller, author of \u003ci\u003eMexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this innovative and deeply researched account, van Ommen reveals revolutionary Nicaragua's little-known struggle to construct a new international order at a crucial juncture in the global Cold War. Deftly tracking the interplay between politicians, diplomats, and transnational solidarity activists, \u003ci\u003eNicaragua Must Survive\u003c\/i\u003e convincingly illuminates the signal importance of Western Europe for the FSLN's revolutionary diplomacy.\"--William Michael Schmidli, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEline van Ommen\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Leeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631746085171,"sku":"9780520390768","price":60.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5SA7HNC1hg9780520390768.webp?v=1762188749","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/nicaragua-must-survive-sandinista-revolutionary-diplomacy-in-the-global-cold-war-volume-8-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}