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Rowland Brucken - Most Uncertain Crusade - 9780875804712 - V9780875804712
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Most Uncertain Crusade

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A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within certain domestic non-governmental organizations, and explains why, after issuing wartime declarations that called for the definition and enforcement of international human rights standards, the US government refused to ratify the first UN treaties that fulfilled those twin purposes. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations worked to weaken the scope and enforcement mechanisms of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875804712
SKU
V9780875804712
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Ref
99-1

About Rowland Brucken
Rowland Brucken is associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Norwich University.

Reviews for Most Uncertain Crusade
This complex and comprehensively documented book lays bare the convoluted history of US human rights policy and practice since World War II.
Journal of American History

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