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Reclaiming American virtue :the human rights revolution of the 1970s
Keys, Barbara J
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| 자료유형 | e-Book |
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| 개인저자 | Keys, Barbara J. |
| 서명/저자사항 | Reclaiming American virtue :the human rights revolution of the 1970s :Barbara J. Keys. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (362 pages) :illustrations. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version Keys, Barbara J Reclaiming American virtue, 9780674724853 |
| ISBN | 9780674726031 (electronic bk.) 0674726030 (electronic bk.) |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction: enter human rights --The postwar marginality of universal human rights -- Managing civil rights at home -- The trauma of the Vietnam War -- The liberal critique of right-wing dictatorships -- The anticommunist embrace of human rights -- A new calculus emerges -- Insurgency on Capitol Hill -- The human rights lobby -- A moralist campaigns for president -- "We want to be proud again" -- Conclusion: universal human rights in American foreign policy. |
| 요약 | The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left alike looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership. Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions. Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America's recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. It would be a small step from world's judge to world's policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace. |
| 일반주제명 | Human rights -- Government policy -- United States. Human rights advocacy -- United States. Human rights advocacy Human rights -- Government policy International relations POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights |
| 주제명(지명) | United StatesForeign relations20th century.United Statesfast |
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