Globalizing human rights : private citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West / / Christian Philip Peterson

• Autore: Peterson Christian
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73047
• Soggetto topico: Human rights - Soviet Union; Human rights - Government policy - United States; Lobbying - United States; Pressure groups - International cooperation - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Globalizing Human Rights; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Human Rights Weapon Emerges: Private Citizens and the U.S. Congress, 1975-1977; 3. Setting the Stage for a Superpower Confrontation: Jimmy Carter, the Soviet Union, and Human Rights, 1975-1976; 4. The Carter Administration Wields the Human Rights Weapon, January 1977-August 1978; 5. The Soviet Government, Private Citizens, and Human Rights, January 1977-August 1978 ; 6. A Delicate Balancing Act Topples: The Carter Administration, Human Rights, and Private Citizens, September 1978-January 19817. The Soviet Government, Private Citizens, and Human Rights, September 1978-January 1981; 8. The Reagan Administration's "Conservative" and "Private" Human Rights Campaign, January 1981-November 1985; 9. The Soviet Government and Dissenters: Human Rights, Peace, and Détente, January 1981-September 1986; 10. Holding Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet Bureaucrats Accountable: U.S.-Soviet Relations, Human Rights, and the Final Act, December 1985-January 1989 ; 11. Revolutions from Above and Below: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Bureaucrats, and Human Rights12. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Globalizing Human Rights explores the complexities of the role human rights played in U.S.-Soviet relations during the 1970s and 1980s. It will show how private citizens exploited the larger effects of contemporary globalization and the language of the Final Act to enlist the U.S. government in a global campaign against Soviet/Eastern European human rights violations. A careful examination of this development shows the limitations of existing literature on the Reagan and Carter administrations' efforts to promote internal reform in USSR. It also reveals how the Carter administratio
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalizing human rights
• ISBN: 1-280-77714-1; 9786613687531; 1-136-64694-9; 0-203-80527-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457694603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies on history and globalization ; ; 1.