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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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
2010
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| Colección: | American empire project
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| Aporte de: | Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí |
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.