Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power / / Glenn Mitoma.
The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international en...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Human Rights Hegemony in the American Century
- Chapter 1. The Study of Peace, Human Rights, and International Organization
- Chapter 2. A Pacific Charter
- Chapter 3. Carlos Romulo, Freedom of Information, and the Philippine Pattern
- Chapter 4. Charles Malik, the International Bill of Rights, and Ultimate Things
- Chapter 5. The NAACP, the ABA, and the Logic of Containment
- Conclusion: Toward Universal Human Rights
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments