A New Deal for the World / / Elizabeth Borgwardt.

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007]
©2005
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights
  • Part I: Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941
  • 1. The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson
  • 2. Forging a New American Multilateralism
  • Part II: Bretton Woods, July 1944
  • 3. The Perils of Economic Planning
  • 4. Investing in Global Stability
  • Part III: San Francisco, June 1945
  • 5. The Chimera of Collective Security
  • 6. Learning to Work Together by Working Together
  • Part IV: Nuremberg, August 1945
  • 7. The Limits of Law
  • 8. Internationalizing New Deal Justice
  • Part V: America in the World
  • 9. Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter
  • 10. An Expanding Vision of the National Interest
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index