University of California Press
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
Overview
Highlighting the importance of non-state actors in foreign relations, Eline van Ommen sheds light on the international and transnational dimensions of the Nicaraguan Revolution. The innovative revolutionary diplomacy of the Sandinistas, she argues, created an international environment that was beneficial to the Nicaraguan Revolution and challenged the United States鈥 role in Central America. The role of Western Europe was crucial in this regard, shifting the inter-American balance of power 鈥 at least for the time being 鈥 in the Nicaraguan revolutionaries鈥 favor.
Eline van Ommen is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Leeds, specializing in revolutions, transnational activism, and the Cold War in Latin America. She is the co-editor of a special issue on the international dimensions of the Nicaraguan Revolution for the peer-reviewed journal聽The Americas in 2021. Her article 鈥淭he Nicaraguan Revolution's Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine: Sandinistas and Western Europe, 1979鈥1990,鈥 traces the FSLN鈥檚 outreach to Western Europe in the 1980s. Van Ommen also wrote a chapter on the international campaign against Somoza in the late 1970s for the edited volume聽Latin America and the Global Cold War (UNC Press) in 2020. Eline van Ommen completed her PhD in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2019. Her thesis was awarded the BIHG Michael Dockrill International History Thesis prize in 2021.
The Washington聽History聽Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the American聽Historical聽Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's聽History聽and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year.聽The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partner (the George Washington University聽History聽Department) for their continued support.
Speaker
Eline van Ommen
Panelists
Mateo Jarqu铆n
Renata Keller
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