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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455098403321

Autore

Shattuck John

Titolo

Freedom on fire [[electronic resource] ] : human rights wars and America's response / / John Shattuck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04348-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

327.73009049

Soggetti

Human rights - Politics and Government - Government policy - United States

Law, Politics & Government

Human Rights

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1993-2001

United States Foreign relations 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction 1. Rwanda: The Genocide That Might Have Been Prevented 2. Rwanda: The Struggle for Justice 3. Haiti: A Tale of Two Presidents 4. Bosnia: The Pariah Problem 5. Bosnia: Facing Reality 6. Bosnia and Kosovo: Breaking the Cycle 7. The China Syndrome 8. China: Collision Course 9. Strategies for Peace Chronology State Department Organizational Chart Notes Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shattuck was the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration. This is the story of the struggle that went on inside the US government over how to respond to far-flung challenges such as genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, and brutal ethnic wars and failed states in other parts of the world.