Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights - Contesting Morality in Us Foreign Policy

List of contents

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.

About the author

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard is a Marie Skłodowska-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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rasmus Sinding (Lunds Universitet Søndergaard, Rasmus Sinding (Lunds Universitet Sndergaard, Rasmus Sinding Sondergaard, Rasmus Sinding (Georgetown University Sondergaard, Rasmus Sinding (Lunds Universitet Sondergaard, Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, Rasmus Sinding (Lunds Universitet Søndergaard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108495639
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49563-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Human Rights in History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, HISTORY / United States / General, History - U.S., International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Diplomacy, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, International Organisations & Institutions