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Book SynopsisThrough careful archival research, Glenn Mitoma reveals how the U.S. government, key civil society groups, Cold War politics, and specific individuals led to America's emergence in the twentieth century as an ambivalent yet central player in establishing an international rights ethic.
Trade Review"
Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power is carefully crafted and beautifully written, delving into the historical origins of the modern framework of international human rights as an organizing principle of the postwar order. In revealing new historical material on the influence of U.S. nongovernmental organizations in the 1940s, Mitoma provides a more complicated intellectual history for the UN human rights system than previously assumed. This is a major contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and how it has been both embraced and contested." * Richard A. Wilson, University of Connecticut *
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Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power seeks to illuminate further the emergence of the postwar human rights order and to clarify and explain the tension between U.S. exceptionalism and its self-declared leadership in the promotion of international human rights. . . . A worthwhile and important endeavor." * Roland Burke, author of
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
