Thinking About Human Rights

Contending Approaches to Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy

AvMichael Ross Fowler

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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The first book to examine the premises and underlying assumptions of four major schools of thought on human rights. Its author demonstrates that different politicians and writers have different perspectives on human rights. Provides an illuminating account of recent American thought on the subject and a penetrating analysis of the issues involved.

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Utgivningsdatum:1987-01-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Exxon Educational Foundation Series on Rhetoric and Political Discourse
Antal sidor:274
Upplaga:6
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819158192

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Michael Ross Fowler is Scholar in Residence at the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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Mr. Fowler...provides us with the first lucid, comprehensive analysis of the varied approaches to human rights and achieves the highest goal of a profound writer: he makes us make up our own minds... Thinking About Human Rights, carefully reasoned and splendidly written, is a triumph for the author and a gift to the statesmen of our time. I pray that they grasp it in all its subtlety and force. William Manchester Mr. Fowler...provides us with the first lucid, comprehensive analysis of the varied approaches to human rights and achieves the highest goal of a profound writer: he makes us make up our own minds... Thinking About Human Rights, carefully reasoned and splendidly written, is a triumph for the author and a gift to the statesmen of our time. I pray that they grasp it in all its subtlety and force. William Manchester