Human rights and American foreign policy : the Carter and Reagan experiences / A. Glenn Mower, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mower, A. Glenn (Alfred Glenn)

Series:

Studies in human rights 0146-3586 ; no. 7.

Studies in human rights. 0146-3586 ; no. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

167 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Greenwood Press, [1987]

Summary:

This important work provides a comparison of the human rights policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations, developed through a general survey of these policies, a reliance on extensive interviewing and congressional hearings, and four case studies. The book deals first with the background of the human rights foreign policies of the two administrations, their conceptual frameworks, rationales, systems of priorities, the objectives they sought, and the selection of national situations to which the policies were applied. The survey then proceeds to identify and describe the sources of the policies, both legal political, international treaties and agreements, national legislation, and the bureaucracy and Congress. It also examines actions taken to implement the policies and diplomatic pressures and inducements. The case studies describe and compare the approaches of the two administrations to the human rights situations in South Africa, Chile, South Korea, and the Soviet Union.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [159]-163.

ISBN:

0313250820

OCLC:

15428821