The 20th century was marked by the emergence of human rights and their power to transform international relations, but not everyone who claimed human rights wanted to make the world a better place, while sometimes the benefits of human rights were unintended. Eckel recounts a history that is complex, polycentric, and does not provide easy lessons.
The 20th century was marked by the emergence of human rights and their power to transform international relations, but not everyone who claimed human rights wanted to make the world a better place, while sometimes the benefits of human rights were unintended. Eckel recounts a history that is complex, polycentric, and does not provide easy lessons.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jan Eckel studied history in Germany and Spain, and received his PhD from the University of Freiburg. He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the Director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Tübingen. He has carried out archival research for this book in the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and Chile, and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships for his work in intellectual history in the 'long' 20th century, the history of international politics since the late 19th century, and the history of Holocaust memory.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Prologue: The 'Pre-History' of Human Rights as a Historiographical Problem * PART ONE: 1940s TO 1960s * 2: Human Rights Policy in the United Nations * 3: Human Rights in the Council of Europe and in the Organization of American States * 4: NGOs and Human Rights * 5: Human Rights and Decolonization * PART TWO: THE 1970s AND 1980s * 6: Amnesty International and the Reinvention of Western Human Rights Activism * 7: Human Rights in Western Foreign Policy * 8: The Pinochet Dictatorship in International Politics * 9: Human Rights, Communism, and Dissidence in Eastern Europe * 10: Human Rights in the Postcolonial World * Conclusion
* Introduction * 1: Prologue: The 'Pre-History' of Human Rights as a Historiographical Problem * PART ONE: 1940s TO 1960s * 2: Human Rights Policy in the United Nations * 3: Human Rights in the Council of Europe and in the Organization of American States * 4: NGOs and Human Rights * 5: Human Rights and Decolonization * PART TWO: THE 1970s AND 1980s * 6: Amnesty International and the Reinvention of Western Human Rights Activism * 7: Human Rights in Western Foreign Policy * 8: The Pinochet Dictatorship in International Politics * 9: Human Rights, Communism, and Dissidence in Eastern Europe * 10: Human Rights in the Postcolonial World * Conclusion
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