{"product_id":"human-rights-and-the-negotiation-of-american-power-9780812245066","title":"Human Rights and the Negotiation of American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and the Negotiation of American Power\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and the Negotiation of American Power\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDecolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Human Rights Hegemony in the American Century\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Study of Peace, Human Rights, and International Organization\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. A Pacific Charter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Carlos Romulo, Freedom of Information, and the Philippine Pattern\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Charles Malik, the International Bill of Rights, and Ultimate Things\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The NAACP, the ABA, and the Logic of Containment\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Toward Universal Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MT - University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038401266007,"sku":"9780812245066","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812245066.jpg?v=1750940215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-rights-and-the-negotiation-of-american-power-9780812245066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}