A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

by Elizabeth Borgwardt

Book Overview

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of 'war and peace aims.' In attempting to globalise what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674018745
• ISBN13: 9780674018747
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.7"