Philanthropic endeavors or the exploitation of an ideal?: the human rights policy of the Organization of American States in Latin America (1970-1991)
Klaas Dykmann
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- Book (Print/Paper)
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- Frankfurt/Main : Vervuert, 2004
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- Table of Contents:
- The institutional evolution of the Inter-American system of human rights
- The development of the juridical position of human rights in the Inter-American system
- An institution for the protection of human rights: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- From an exclusively juridical organ to a highly political institution: the positions and activities of the IACHR
- The "conscience of the hemisphere" versus the unconscious: the relations between the IACHR, the OAS organs, and the member states
- The OAS human rights policy in the 1970s: between dictatorships, violence, and hemisphere policies
- The human rights issue enters the OAS agenda: the Chilean case (1973-1976)
- The Carter Administration and the OAS human rights policy
- The Carter Administration, Argentina, and the OAS (1977-1980)
- Political conflicts and civil wars in Central America
- Redefining human rights: the Reagan Administration
- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Central America during the 1980s
- The Commission's realpolitik: the case of El Salvador (1980-1991)
- Philanthropic endeavors or the exploitation of an ideal?
- An evaluation of the human rights policy of the Organization of American States.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-480).
- Physical Description:
- 505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- JC599.L3 D95 2004
- ISBNs:
- 3865271650 (Vervuert)
8484891739 (Iberoamericana)
9783865271655 (Vervuert)
9788484891734 (Iberoamericana) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2005355067
- OCLC Numbers:
- 56878981