Download or read book The Peace Corps in South America written by Fernando Purcell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War and promoting American interests in the Global South. This book examines how this ideological project played out on the ground as volunteers encountered a range of local actors and agencies engaged in anti-poverty efforts of their own. As they negotiated the complexities of community intervention, these volunteers faced conflicts and frustrations, struggled to adapt, and gradually transformed the Peace Corps of the 1960s into a truly global, decentralized institution. Drawing on letters, diaries, reports, and newsletters created by volunteers themselves, Fernando Purcell shows how their experiences offer an invaluable perspective on local manifestations of the global Cold War.

Download or read book The Peace Corps and Latin America written by Thomas J. Nisley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost 60 years, the United States government has sent more than 230,000 of its citizens abroad to serve as Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) for two-year tours, often in very poor countries. As these Volunteers work in grassroots development, helping to build local capacity, they also serve as citizen diplomats and contribute to U.S. public diplomacy. The unique experience of the Peace Corps provides the Volunteers knowledge and a profound understanding of another country or region of the world. Volunteers continue to serve their country as they bring their experience and knowledge back to the United States. Many of them go on to serve in the State Department and in the United States Agency for International Development. Some have even risen to the top ranks of the Foreign Service. Thomas Nisley argues that the Peace Corps is an important tool of U.S. foreign policy that contributes on multiple levels. As these citizen diplomats do their work, they help to improve the popular image of the United States, contributing to U.S. “soft power.” Soft power is a co-optive power, getting others to want what you want. After a general exploration of how the Peace Corps contributes to U.S. foreign policy, the book takes a direct focus on Latin America. Dr. Nisley provides evidence, along with a theoretical explanation, that PCVs do indeed improve the popular perception of the United States in Latin America. He then examines three different periods in U.S foreign policy toward Latin America and shows how the Peace Corps made its contribution. Not all U.S. policy makers have equally recognized the role of the Peace Corps in U.S. foreign policy. Some have even dismissed it outright. This book argues that the Peace Corps plays an important role in U.S. foreign policy. Although the Peace Corps is much stronger today than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, U.S. foreign policy would be well served if the Peace Corps were further strengthen and expanded, not only in Latin America but in the world. We should considered the wider policy benefits of the Peace Corps.

Download or read book Peace Corps in Latin America written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Activities in Latin Americaand the Caribbean Hearing Before the Subcommitteeon Inter American Affairs 89 1 October 6 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps in Latin America written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Faculty Paper No 5 written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peace Corps Volunteer a Quarterly Statistical Summary written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2000, the Peace Corps Act, to establish permanent Peace Corps to help peoples of interested countries in meeting needs for skilled manpower.

Download or read book The Peace Corps in the Cities of Latin America written by Julien R. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Annual Operations Report written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps AID Collaboration written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Inter-America Region and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States written by Seung-Kyung Kim and published by Center for Korea Studies Publications. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

Download or read book Assignment Latin America written by Karla H. Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young girl's training as a Peace Corps volunteer and the trials and rewards of her two year assignment in a Latin American Indian village.

Download or read book Annual Report written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volunteers for Peace written by Morris Isaac Stein and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: