This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It explores how executive-legislative relations shaped attention to human rights in US foreign policy and how the issue of... číst celé
Human Rights in History Series
This series delves into the historical roots and evolution of human rights concepts. It covers a broad spectrum, from intellectual antecedents to their integration into international legal frameworks and social movements. Each volume offers fresh scholarship on how ideals and interventions surrounding human rights have been shaped across time and cultures. The collection is essential for understanding the contingencies and surprising legacies that define the past and present of human rights discourse.
The Human Rights Dictatorship
- 286 pages
- 11 hours of reading
By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.