Ideal illusions : how the U.S. government co-opted human rights /

Analyzes the troubled dynamic between the U.S. government and the human rights movement, arguing that America became a standard for human rights as part of a controversial effort to further the nation's global influence.

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Autor principal: Peck, James
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010
Colección:American empire project
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Washington's world before the rise of human rights
  • The Carter years : American foreign policy finds a soul
  • The Reagan administration : democratization and proxy wars
  • Human rights and China
  • Post-Reagan : humanitarianism amid the ruins
  • Terrorism and the pathology of American power.