Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy

by Clair Apodaca

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making.

Clair Apodaca demonstrates that the history of American human rights policy is a series of different paradoxes that change depending on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415954231
• ISBN13: 9780415954235
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"