The ambivalence of good : human rights in international politics since the 1940s / Jan Eckel ; translated by Rachel Ward.

The Ambivalence of Good' examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the...

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Uniform Title:Ambivalenz des Guten. English
Oxford studies in modern European history.
Main Author: Eckel, Jan (Author)
Other Authors: Ward, Rachel, 1957- (Translator)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford studies in modern European history.
Subjects:
Human rights > History.
International relations > History > 20th century.
International relations > History > 21st century.
Human rights advocacy > History.
History, Modern > 20th century.
History, Modern > 21st century.
History, Modern.
Human rights.
Human rights advocacy.
International relations.
1900-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:446 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The ambivalence of good
  • Prologue: The "pre-history" of human rights as a historiographical problem
  • Human rights policy in the United Nations
  • Human rights in the Council of Europe and in the Organization of American States
  • NGOs and human rights
  • Human rights and decolonization
  • Amnesty Interntional and the reinvention of Western human rights activism
  • Human rights in Western foreign policy
  • The Pinochet dictatorship in international politics
  • Human rights, communism, and dissidence in Eastern Europe
  • Human rights in the postcolonial world
  • Conclusion.