Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in Us Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9781108495639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 324 str.

Rasmus Sinding Sondergaard

Opis

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Recenzje

'The book will make a lasting contribution to our understanding of the foreign policy continuity across the final decades of the Cold War … Søndergaard reminds us that American politics is sometimes compromised but often advantaged by its endemic contestation over moral questions.' Timothy J. Lynch, Journal of Contemporary History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. After the breakthrough: human rights in American foreign relations in the 1980s; 2. The Reagan turnaround on human rights; 3. The Congressional human rights caucus and the limits of bipartisanship; 4. The right to leave: Soviet Jewish emigration; 5. 'A universal human rights issue': South African apartheid; 6. Two tales of human rights: US policy toward Nicaragua; Conclusion.