Rasmus Sinding SÃ ndergaard (Sweden Lunds Universitet)

Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It explores how executive-legislative relations shaped attention to human rights in US foreign policy and how the issue of human rights, in turn, impacted governmental relations.

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Produktdetails

• Human Rights in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781108797184
• ISBN-10: 1108797180
• Artikelnr.: 64223384

Autorenporträt

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of History, Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He is a recipient of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science's Elite Research Ph.D. Prize and fellowships from the Carlsberg Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

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.