Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human RightsFrom a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement |
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IDEAL ILLUSIONS: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights
User Review - KirkusFrom the Cold War to the War on Terror, a historian and foreign-policy analyst charts the rise of human rights and the U.S. government's appropriation of the doctrine for its own ends.In the immediate ... Read full review
Contents
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American Foreign Policy Finds a Soul | 45 |
Democratization | 85 |
Human Rights and China | 130 |
Humanitarianism Amid the Ruins | 177 |
Terrorism and the Pathology of American Power | 230 |
Notes | 287 |
Acknowledgments | 355 |